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 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.

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
• 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
Morayma Cancel, Interim Program Manager
1001 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL  60608
312-492-7402 Phone
mcancel@eastersealschicago.org