Easter Seals Disability Services

Help Easter Seals Create Solutions and Change Lives

Creating solutions and changing lives is what we do at Easter Seals. Join us and you too can make a difference and help people with disabilities achieve their goals. Volunteer your time to share your talents.  Whether performing office work, volunteering at events and camps or another way...you can help!

Need more convincing? In the words of Edgar "Daddy" Allen, founder of Easter Seals, "We have but one life. We get nothing out of that life except by putting something into it. To relieve suffering, to help the unfortunate, to do kind acts and deeds is, after all, the one sure way to secure happiness or to achieve real success. Your life and mine shall be valued not by what we take...but by what we give."

Easter Seals has some wonderful volunteer opportunities at our child care facilities, schools and special events.

Autism Therapeutic School Waukegan

• Help paint the inside of the building
• Paint murals in our cafeteria and on the two large cylendars in front of our building
• Help with landscape and planting bulbs for Spring and Fall

Autism Therapeutic School Tinley Park
Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Mary Ellen Bucci, Program Manager
17300 Ozark Avenue
Tinley Park, IL  60477
708-802-9050 Phone
mbucci@eastersealschicago.org

After School Program
Monday through Friday 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Autism Therapeutic School Chicago
312-432-1751 Phone
Autism Therapeutic School Tinley Park
708-802-9050 Phone

Child Care Programs / Head Start

• Read stories to children at story time
• Play activities
• Help with lunch program by serving children
• Help children learn through individualized computer assisted instruction
• Decorate bulletin boards with holiday art projects
• Do art and music projects
• Volunteer in family literacy program
• Volunteer for field trips
• Type out monthly newsletter
• Help clean classrooms

Near South Side Child Development Center
Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Cathy Rokusek, Program Manager
3630 South Wells
Room 105
Chicago, IL  60609
773-548-3614 Phone
crokusek@eastersealschicago.org

Gilchrist-Marchman Head Start
Adrienne Hamilton, Program Manager
1001 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL  60608
312-492-7402 Phone
ahamilton@eastersealschicago.org

Windy City Kids
Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
(Federal and State Background Checks Required)
Rita Armstrong, Program Manager
600 West Madison
Chicago, IL  60661
312-575-6550 Phone
rarmstrong@eastersealschicago.org