- Change a Life: Become a role model for success. Learn about the Berkeley community. Work with a middle school student.
- Commit: 3 hours per week for one year. Hours are flexible around your and your mentee's schedules.
- We support you: Full time staff. Cal student volunteer manager and team leaders. 15 years of experience working at Willard Middle School.
- Earn up to 2 units in our Wednesday night support class: place/time for Fall 2010 TBD
- Mentees waiting: Many go unmatched each year.

Learn more by exploring the Mentor Page.

- Change lives: Teach enrichment classes to help students get up to grade level or excel beyond. Teach math or English to middle school students.
- Create your own projects: Come up with an idea for your own workshop: anything from health to robotics! Classes can be one time or ongoing.
- We support you: Full time staff. Cal student volunteer manager.
- Earn up to 2 units in our Monday support class.

Learn more by exploring the Teacher Page.

We are currently looking for dedicated people who would like to become a volunteer mentor and/or teacher starting in September 2010.

Click on one of the mentor or teacher application links above to download our application.
You can then:

• hand it in in person at our office: 2425 Stuart Street, off of Telegraph towards Regent St. (see map)
• email it to us at WillardYouthSupport@berkeley.k12.ca.us

The YSP support class for mentors starts on Wednesday, place/time TBD.

The CCNs for registering for the class on Telebears for Fall 2010 are as follows (the ones on the syllabus handed out on 1/20 are wrong):

SW 97: TBD SW 197: TBD
ED 97: 23569, ED 197: 23818

Freshman and sophomores register for the 97s, juniors and seniors register for the 197s. You may take the class for one or two units, P/NP (Team Leaders, you may take the class for one, two or three units, P/NP).

New volunteers must also get a TB (tuberculosis) test and submit the results to YSP before beginning any work with children--this is a statewide policy. Please consider turning in the results of your TB test with your application.

Ways to complete the TB test requirement:

• Drop-in TB testing at the University Tang Center's Specialty Clinic (first floor). Cost: $20 for students with and without SHIP. For more information visit: http://uhs.berkeley.edu/
• TB testing at the Berkeley Free Clinic, located on 2339 Durant between Dana and Ellsworth. Cost: free. For a schedule of TB testing and a phone number for appointments, please visit: http://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/generalMedical.html
• If you have had a TB test within the past year, you do not need to take another one. Please submit a copy of your results to the YSP office (a record can usually be obtained from your doctor if you do not already have it).

Fingerprinting for new mentors will take place at the YSP office on a date/time that has yet to be determined for Fall 2010.

Got more questions? Want to learn more about the program before applying? Contact us!