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Volunteers can be an invaluable asset to child care centers. These non-paid employees can assist with many aspects of teaching from providing one-to-one attention to a child who needs it, to setting up activities and reading to small groups. Utilizing volunteer strengths can give your center an overall boost. How do you create partnerships that work for your center and your volunteers?Managing volunteers is both challenging and rewarding. Directors are in a key in position to involve these non-paid employees in the life of the center, utilize existing strengths and bolstering weaknesses. Directors also need to make sure volunteers are competent, qualified, and committed. You need a screening process to eliminate candidates who do not match your center's needs. Even though there is no direct compensation for working, there are strategies to attract quality volunteers - and these strategies will make it easier to retain good volunteers. Following are some steps to guide you. The results will be worth it. Your reward will be a staff committed to you and the children of your center.
Pre-interviewing procedures. Be clear about the skills, competencies and abilities you seek.
Identify needs. Before interviewing, clearly establish staffing needs. Ask teachers to fill out volunteer request forms ...