More volunteer opportunities coming soon! Including supervision & support groups
Get in touch! If you’d like to hear about our volunteer opportunities in the future.
Past example of volunteerism:
Kambel’s Soup Kitchen
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How does volunteering help mental health? Especially for adolescents?
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How do soup kitchens run?
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How can I make a difference?
‘Kambel in the Kitchen’ Volunteering. I’m passionate about food and serving others so a soup kitchen is a good match when I do volunteer work.
For more opportunities check out this great resource called Volunteer Match. You can put in your search there preferred location, age (some soup kitchens are adults only) and what type or volunteering you’d like to do.
Check this amazing place out. They’ve been serving 3 hot meals a day for over a 100 years! They’re not government funded and need our support especially considering the extreme homelessness problem here in LA. It’s easy to sign up on line at their website and you’ll get email confirmation with instructions of where to park,, what to bring and how long the shift is. if you get to meet and work with Quentin – the volunteer coordinator – & any of the chefs you’ll have a good experience. Adolescents welcome.
OBKLA is a community run, non-denominational, friendly kitchen. When you volunteer there you prepare the meals for distribution that then get deliver to those in need i n LA. So, you don’t get to serve the food here which is different to a traditional soup kitchen volunteer position like at the MM. Here you will prep the food (cutting up vegetables etc) and then you’ll be involved in packaging them up and labeling with sticker dates so the person getting the food knows what date it was made. Their website easy to use and you can book a date & time. Try to book ahead because they seem to fill up fast (which is great) and look for the specific dates that can kids & adolescents can volunteer. Some of their evening shifts are adult only.
OBK - LA“Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.”
– Chef & Restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi
A look inside Soup Kitchen volunteering
Research Based Evidence
BENEFITS OF VOLUNTEERING
… whatever your age! (But for this project, FOR ADOLESCENTS)
Scholarly Article: Incorporating volunteering into treatment for depression among adolescents: Developmental and Clinical Considerations
“Volunteering is positively associated with mental health in observational studies with community samples but has not been systematically examined as a potential part of treatment interventions with clinical adolescent samples.”
read moreThe effects of volunteering on the young volunteer
This article reviews some of the best researched volunteer service programs for adolescents and addresses three major questions…
read moreVolunteering benefits the health and wellness of kids and teens
Volunteering was associated with:
- Higher odds of parent-reported excellent/very good health in both children and adolescents.
- Higher odds of flourishing in children, as well as adolescents.
- Lower odds of behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
- While volunteering was associated with lower odds of anxiety in adolescents, there was no such association for children.
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Interestingly, there was no association between volunteering and depression for either children or adolescents.
“Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship.”
– Baha’i Writings