How you can help

Volunteer

All of Pathways’ programs and services are made possible by a collaboration of our clients, our staff, volunteers, and donors/funders. Without any one of these pieces, we would not be able to successfully serve those who need us.

Volunteers donate their time, energy, and passion to help further the Pathways Mission, and in doing so, are vital to our team!

Every day children, youth and families in need of support reach out to Pathways by attending programs, phoning us, or checking out our website.

We are currently recruiting in the following areas:

Special Events

Events are an important way for the agency to bring in funds, promote awareness within the community, and showcase some highlights of our hard work. They are also a great way to support our Mission and programs in fun, exciting, and very social ways. Volunteers play a very large role in events benefiting Pathways, and can help with campaign and event mail-outs, becoming a member of an event committee, participating in the promoting, setting-up, and smooth-running of events.

Family Resource Centres Programs Support

Family Resource Centres provide programs for children from birth to 6 years in several different locations throughout Markham, Unionville, and Stouffville. Volunteers can assist staff at these locations in providing fun and rewarding experiences for families. Interested volunteers are encouraged to look at the program calendar (located on home page, as well as through the programs section) to research the different types of programs available prior to applying to volunteer. Volunteers for these programs are required to be at least 19 years of age, have access to reliable transportation to desired program locations, and have relevant experience with children birth to 6 years. 

Music Studio Support

Pathways Home Base Drop-In Centre provides a music studio space for youth with an interest in music to record, and edit while expressing themselves creatively at the Centre. This specialized volunteer opportunity is for an individual with knowledge of sound and studio equipment, music production, editing and recording, and specifically Pro Tools audio workstation platform for Mac. This position would involve technical support, equipment set-up, creative production support, and youth engagement.

Aesthetics/Hair Styling

Home Base Youth Drop-In Centre provides a wide variety of services to homeless and/or at-risk youth throughout the Region. The Centre is currently recruiting volunteers to help run workshops for female youth and provide some hair styling and aesthetics services. This position would require formal training in these areas.

Donation Pick-up

Home Base Drop-In Centre receives regular donations of food to help support the meal and snack services offered there. Volunteer support is needed in order help manage, pick-up, and deliver these types of donations. The travel would be centralized mostly within Richmond Hill.

If you are interested in the above volunteer opportunities with Pathways, please fill out our Volunteer Application