While many private and public schools have implemented strict background screening policies for school volunteers, others argue that background checks on school volunteers will reduce much -
needed volunteer involvement in the schools.
Not exact matches
For people like Pam Jones» Ricardo Alvarado, and John and Mary Phelps, religious
involvement was favored mainly as a way of encouraging deeper thinking about the
needs of the poor and as a vehicle for mobilizing
volunteer efforts.
For example, your group might
need to scale back its expectations for parent
volunteer hours (see «Middle School Parent
Involvement Tips», below).
The organization is staffed with dedicated, compassionate and trained employees, as well as
volunteers that assist and enjoy a wide range of
involvement from helping with special care
needs, fostering, promotional events and educational programs.
After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a
need for «feminine»
involvement with babies or children gain status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as
volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?
As to bar
involvement, one
need look no further than firm founder Leo V. Boyle, who as president of the American Association of Justice at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks (when it was still ATLA) was instrumental in bringing about the federal Victim Compensation Fund and in creating Trial Lawyers Care, a national organization of
volunteer attorneys created to help victims» families.