Involvement Opportunities
Arts and Services for Disabled, based in Long Beach, needs classroom assistants over 16 years of age to work with developmentally disabled adults. Information: Volunteer Center, South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach, (310) 212-5009.
* Enrichment Through Employment, which offers job training and employment assistance to mentally ill clients in Torrance, needs volunteers to assist clients. Information: Volunteer Center, South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach, (310) 212-5009.
* 1736 Family Crisis Center, based in Redondo Beach, which offers shelter and counseling to battered women and their children, needs volunteers for its 24-hour hotline, to provide child care and to grocery shop for the women in the shelter. Information: Volunteer Center, South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach, (310) 212-5009.
* Gardena Senior Care Center needs volunteers to help in the kitchen and to assist with bingo, arts and crafts, exercise classes and meal service. Information: Volunteer Center, South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach, (310) 212-5009.
* California Council of the Blind in Torrance needs volunteers to read and provide transportation to clients. Information: Volunteer Center, South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach, (310) 212-5009.
* PV on the Net, a group dedicated to helping the community by providing a comfortable computer-oriented learning environment, needs volunteers to write and send out announcements, create and update Web pages, organize classes and workshops, organize technical support for nonprofit organizations and create and promote new ideas for businesses. Information: (310) 541-7992 or https://www.palosverdes.com.
* Yoga Mandir, a nonprofit organization in Santa Monica that offers outreach programs to the homeless and teenagers in detention centers, needs volunteers to update mailing lists, greet students and answer the phone. Volunteers can earn free yoga classes. Information: Eva Au, (310) 451-0074.
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