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Student Outreach Initiative: call for volunteers

The Reed Care Team has set an ambitious goal: to personally connect with every first-year student at Reed by phone, email, or text to check in and offer support resources. To pull this off, we need staff volunteers from across the college to join us.

You do not need to be experts on all things Reed to participate. Instead, we are looking for staff who can offer students time, empathy, and direction to helpful resources.

Volunteers will do the following:

  • Reach out by phone, email, or text to an assigned group of 10–15 students.

  • Ask students how they are doing and whether they could use additional support resources.

  • Direct students to information and resources (e.g., remote tutoring services).

  • Check in again with assigned students two weeks after first contact.

  • Send students a message of encouragement during finals week (May 11–14).   

We anticipate the time commitment will be approximately four hours total over the next few weeks.

Volunteers will be provided with the following resources:

  • A list of 10–15 students and their contact information

  • Talking points and calling script

  • Email templates

  • A list of FAQs to help answer questions and connect students to resources

  • A student questionnaire that will help us better understand student needs

Student life staff will be available to help volunteers respond to complicated or specialized questions and concerns.

If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out this form by Monday, April 20, at noon. I will confirm your volunteer status on a rolling basis, no later than Monday at 5 p.m. Once staff volunteers are confirmed, I will host a Zoom meeting (more than one session will be offered) to review the outreach plan and answer questions.

Thank you for any assistance you can offer for everything you are already doing to support students this semester.

Best, 

Britt Hoover
Assistant Dean of Student Support on behalf of the Reed Care Team

For more information, contact Britt Hoover.
Submitted by Robin Tovey.
Posted on Apr 14, 2020

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