News and Updates
Welcome To The Center
"Our Faith Promoting Community and Building Families"
The Center for Reconciliation
& Social Change, Inc.
Volunteer Training Resources
"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough; money can be got; but they need your hearts to love them. " -Mother Teresa
Tools for Volunteers:
Faith Based/Community
20 Ideas for Volunteering
For Everyone from Teenagers to Adults- Justice.org
Holding Volunteers Accountable
Should we just be grateful for what they do? – Sue Mallory
The Christ– Centered Mindset
How to create want-to, can do workers- Sue Mallory
Finding (and Keeping) Happy Volunteers
Don't lose your volunteers to burnout- by LeAnn Campbell
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Volunteer Development of leaders and managers-
Non-profit Community Tools:
- . Empowering People and Communities-
- Restitution and "Service Earning®" Community Service, Volunteer Programs
The Center for Reconciliation and Social Change, Inc. (www.SocialChangeNow.Org) coordinates opportunities in a local community for youth offenders to carry out supervised projects which relate to their offence and or an opportunity to earn, as a means to meet their obligation to earndown restitution®. Another component for the offender is to meet the obligation to verbalize their offense and explain "how what they did impacted their victims and their offence to society". Service Earning® contributes to or completes the earning process, allowing the offender to work towards gaining a rightful place in their community by contributing through serves, completing their civic responsibility as they learn civic duties.
The process of contributing may include speaking to other young people and or parents about their offence to society. Along with the offenders learning to verbalize their offence, offenders may work or "Earn Down" restitution at local community organizations. These service projects, which allows the offender to re-connect to their community; some of thses contributed volunteer hours may offer an agreed upon stipend that will go towards paying off restitution or fines.
