Time to start buying Christmas presents…
By Jenny King Before I came to CAP, my favorite time of the year was winter, mainly because of Christmas and my birthday being during the colder months. Now that I work with the Family Advocacy program, Christmas has definitely become the best time of the year! During August, each county caseworker takes applications for [...]
Volunteers ensure Kentucky kids are ready for school
Most of the families CAP serves live on a limited fixed income, so budgeting for school supplies and new clothing can be difficult when paying regular monthly bills is already a struggle. To ensure that the children of Eastern Kentucky start school off on a level playing field, regardless of their parents’ income, CAP volunteers in Family [...]
Disaster Relief
By Rachel DeKold originally posted August 18, 2009 Last week I had my first experience with CAP’s Disaster Relief. The rain/thunderstorms we had about two weeks ago caused flooding in some parts of Louisville. CAP’s disaster relief program was asked to help out, and on the 8th, two of my housemates and myself decided to [...]
What are you going to do after you leave?
By Jenny King Originally posted August 12, 2009 One phenomenon of being a long-term CAP volunteer is that mysterious time after your service term. A few months before it approaches, questions like “What are you doing after you leave?” and “When do you leave?” become commonplace. Well, this week, I was finally able to answer [...]
Growing pains
By Amy Schill originally posted August 12, 2009 In early 2007, the president of CAP asked me how we were looking on long-term volunteers for our September orientation. We have rolling admissions and three orienations per year, but the September class is always the largest. I predicted we would have around 20…a number I pulled [...]
Discernment
By Amy Schill originally posted August 6, 2009 I’ve never been terribly comfortable with my job title: “Volunteer Recruiter.” The term “recruiter” conjures up high school memories of military recruiters calling incessantly to offer free lunches and scholarships, despite the fact that they had never met me and knew nothing of my physical fitness (or [...]
Learning to transition
By Jenny King originally posted August 4, 2009 Before I came to CAP, I would have described myself as flexible, particularly in adjusting to unplanned events in the workplace. However, it didn’t take long for me to be taught many new lessons about flexibility and transitions in my year as a volunteer with CAP. And [...]
What are the living conditions?
By Jenny King originally posted June 17, 2009 It seems that when I talk to friends outside of CAP, I’m often asked “What are the living conditions?” I think there’s a misconception that I’m living way back in a “holler” on a dirt road with no cell phone service surrounded by mountains and forest. It [...]
Weekends?
By Bobby Jones originally posted May 28, 2009 What do Volunteers do on the weekends? Great question anonymous inquiring mind! A few weekends ago a group of us volunteers go together and had a picnic style cookout thingy, a few old volunteers who still live in the area also came by. It was a great [...]
School Readiness
By Jenny King originally posted May 26, 2009 As a Family Advocacy caseworker, I am responsible for planning and organizing our annual distributions. We have two….the Christmas Basket distribution and the School Readiness distribution. Each of these serve over 100 families in each county where CAP operates. As we near the summer, it is time [...]
