Volunteers Needed for Intergenerational Opportunity

The Early Childhood Service Corps* (ECSC) is an innovative, intergenerational response to the critical workforce need in the early childhood field, and to the unprecedented departure of older Americans from the workforce.

Our program recruits, trains, and deploys older adults to serve in the early childhood field as classroom volunteers, volunteer business advisors or take advanced training to become paid Encore Substitutes. Our program promotes intergenerational understanding, inclusivity, and diversity in early childhood classrooms.

We hope to tap into the skills and passion of older adults in our communities and work to identify and recruit volunteers who reflect the cultural and language backgrounds of the children and their families in those areas.

We are committed to preparing underserved older adults to access our education and training to participate in our program. Our partner EC Sites are more diverse and serve many children with diversity of religion, gender, orientation, culture, family structures, and physical/intellectual abilities. We hope to be able to match this diversity with our volunteers and Encore Subs because we know the identity of oneself is based upon caregivers/teachers' ability to name, reflect and act on social and ecological diversity and justice.

ECSC maintains by providing flexible support in early childhood. Through our older adult Service Corps members, we will be instrumental in helping to eliminate structural inequities that limit equitable learning opportunities for children, as well.

Please join us by volunteering to serve on our Diversity Advisory Board (https://bit.ly/ECSCDEIBoard) or join our waitlist to take our training to become an Encore Substitute of volunteer in our upcoming Cohort V: https://bit.ly/ECServiceCorps

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