Infant Crisis Services
MISSION:
Infant Crisis Services exists to provide life-sustaining formula, baby and toddler food, diapers and other basic necessities to over 9,000 needy babies and toddler each year. - In the richest nation of the world, no baby should go hungry… Infant Crisis Services believes every baby and toddler deserves life’s basic necessities.
With the help of the community, Infant Crisis Services supplies life-sustaining formula and food as well as diapers and clothing for babies and toddlers in times of crisis.
It is hard to imagine that there are babies and toddlers who go to bed hungry, yet it happens every day right here in Oklahoma. Our state has the 8th highest incidence of childhood poverty in the U.S. Infant Crisis Services serves more than 1,000 babies and toddlers in central Oklahoma each month.
Infant Crisis Services is bridging the gap in current services. Government programs like WIC and DHS often require waiting periods of up to several weeks during a critical time in a baby’s development and don’t provide diapers or certain medically prescribed formulas.
Quote:
“The Revive Ministries Conference was a wonderful experience and a way to reach women who have a heart for God and for those less fortunate. I was grateful to be included in the conference and look forward to having new sisters join in helping the least, last and littlest in our community”. Miki Farris
Client Intake Specialists:
Volunteers will work on the frontline with our clients. They fill client needs for food, formula, diapers, and assist in finding clothing in our clothing area. The assignment also includes, rocking babies, playing with children, and assisting the clients to the check out desk.
Playroom Attendant:
Volunteers are responsible for playing and rocking the clients, sanitizing the toys and furniture in the play area, and making sure the playroom is a safe and fun experience for our little ones.
Clothing Room Attendants:
Volunteers are responsible for stocking and maintaining the clothing room. They will sack up the clients items when they complete their shopping experience.
Program Assistance:
* Disclaimer: all jobs in the warehouse require the ability to lift and repetitive motion. Some lifting may be heavy. Assistance will be made available if necessary.*
Clothing Angels:
Clothing Angels will work in the warehouse sorting, matching and hanging the donated clothing. Washing machines are available if the clothing needs extra care. These volunteers will work closely with the clothing attendants in the clothing room.
Donation Specialists:
These volunteers concentrate specifically on donations.
The volunteers will check in, clean if necessary, and placing donations in their proper place in the warehouse that arrive on a daily basis. They will check batteries in toys, check expiration dates on food and formula, and weigh clothing that comes in the donations. Donation specialists will work closely with supply specialists, toy specialists, assembly specialists and the clothing angels.
Supply Specialists:
These volunteers will stock food, formula, and diapers in the warehouse. They will check expiration dates, mark out UPC codes on formula and place labels on the tops of the cans, and assemble toddler and infant packs on a daily basis. These volunteers will ensure the shelves are stocked properly with the food formula and diapers.
Assembly Specialists:
These volunteers will assemble toddler packs, infant packs, diaper packs, and first visit packs. These volunteers will work closely with the supply specialists to ensure ample supplies of infant and toddler packs are made daily. Also assisting clothing angels and toy specialists assemble toy packs or clothing ensembles.
Toy Specialists:
These volunteers will check in toys from the donations, check batteries in toys, check safety of toys, and place toys in their proper storage place in warehouse and stock clothing room with toys throughout the day. These volunteers will work closely with donation specialists and assisting them when necessary.
Administrative Assistance: (* Training for these positions will be provided.)
Referral Specialists:
These volunteers will work in a cubical taking referrals for our clients and putting them into the computer. Phone skills, light computer skills and organizational skills will be helpful.
Check-in Support:
These volunteers will work at the front desk assisting the Client Services Manager check in clients. Greeting the clients and entering in new client data. Light computer skills, phone skills, and organizational skills will be helpful. Also, bilingual skills are preferred.
Check- out Support:
These volunteers will assist the staff member to scan barcodes of items our clients received and entering in some data. Also ensuring the clients have a pleasant experience as they exit the building. Organizational skills, phone skills, people skills and light computer skills will be helpful.
Staff Assistance:
These volunteers will assist the staff with letter assembly, filing, organizing, and any other tasks that may arise on a daily basis. These volunteers may also assist any of the three specialists listed above as needed.
Contact:
Beth Lykins, Volunteer Coordinator, (405) 528-3663
Miki Farris, Executive Director, (405) 528-3663
mikifarris@infantcrisis.org
Please note our new address:
4224 N. Lincoln Blvd.
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
www.infantcrisis.org
Posted on
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
by Revive Ministries