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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of places won't allow volunteers under 18 without a parent chaperone for liability reasons.  It's pretty restricted to umc families that have time to drive and chaperone.

I would be happy to see this requirement go away and incorporate service learning during the school day.[/quote]

PP (an award winning volunteer, charity board member, active volunteer)

My small, all volunteer run organization disallows “one off” teen volunteers. Too much time wasted to train, supervise and chaperone and we can’t guarantee that there will be enough work. We also have to protect client confidentiality. So, it’s complicated.

I also would get the panicked phone calls from moms (always the moms) imploring me to allow Johnny to come in right now to get his remaining (or start) vol hours.

Instead, we ask for help during a specific collection time for a larger-scale event.

For my own DS, I’d have him accompany me and do the tasks no one wanted to do like crush boxes for recycling, haul trash to the dumpster, sort mail. He earned his hours the hard way.

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