About Help children laugh and play!

Easter Seals' Child Development Centers provide developmentally appropriate education in a fully inclusive environment to help children with and without disabilities learn, grow, and flourish. Volunteers can help children, staff and teachers in a variety of ways that fit your interests such as by:

-- Reading Stories
-- Rocking Babies
-- Interacting with children
-- Mixing up a batch of play dough and let the creativity begin
-- Playing games/activities and sharing some one on one time
-- Decorating bulletin boards
-- Helping with special events
-- Placing food on carts and take to classrooms, cleaning up kitchen area
-- Clerical support: Maintain records, check immunization records and send update letter to parents, put enrollment packets together
-- Assisting staff while they provide teachers with a break to work on lesson plans

If you're interested in helping out, please contact:

Dena Adkins
[email protected]
206-281-5700 ext 107

Application Process

Minimum age to volunteer is 16, with parent permission forms submitted. Fill out our online application found on our website. Volunteers are required to submit to a background check and complete additional on-boarding paperwork. Contact us with any questions at [email protected].