Grade 12 Graduating Students (Volunteer Requirement):
The community involvement graduation requirement of 40 hours is restored for students graduating in the 2023-2024 school year and beyond.
Please email your completed Community Involvement Hours Record Form to your guidance counsellor.
Last name A-H – Ms. Susi – [email protected]
Last name I-P – Mr. Scocchia – [email protected]
Last name Q-Z – Ms. Sandoval – [email protected]
Students aged 14 years and older can count up to a maximum of 10 hours from paid employment towards their earned hours at the discretion of the principal. Students counting paid employment towards their graduation requirement will be required to complete their Record of Hours form & reflection questions indicating how their work contributed to the service for others. Students not graduating this school year are still required to complete 40-hours before April 1 of their graduating year.
When using paid employment for volunteer hours (maximum of 10 hours), students must email their guidance counsellor with the following:
- Community Involvement Hours Record Form
- Reflection questions:
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- What was the activity and what were your duties? (2-3 sentences)
- How was your involvement valuable to others? (2-3 sentences)
This Community Involvement form and reflection questions will be printed off and placed in your OSR.
Email the above to your assigned guidance counsellor:
Last name A-H – Ms. Susi
Last name I-P – Mr. Scocchia
Last name Q-Z – Ms. Sandoval
Additional Community Involvement Information
The Ontario Ministry of Education requires that each student complete 40 hours of volunteer activities in the community in order to earn their Ontario Secondary School Diploma. Students can begin accumulating these hours as of July 1 after they finish grade 8.
- HWDSB Community Involvement Information: Students and parents must ensure that the “volunteer activity” meets the requirements of Community Involvement as outlined in our Students | Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (hwdsb.on.ca)
- As soon as students complete all or part of the required 40 hours, they are encouraged to return the completed form to the Student Services office and have this recorded on their transcript. Students may also attach signed letters verifying their completion of volunteer activities to their Record of Community Involvement form. (The Ontario Student Transcript shows only that the community involvement is complete or not complete, it does not indicate the total number of hours above 40 a student completes.)
All students are encouraged to complete a minimum of 10 Community Involvement Hours each academic year.
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Local Volunteer Opportunities
Community Service Hours – Opportunities for Students 2023 and 2024 PowerPoint
- Peach Festival Volunteer opportunity – Optimist Peach Festival Optimist Club
- Battlefield reenactment – June 1st and 2nd. Needing volunteers for stocking supplies, bagging. Lunch and supper provided. Email before May 15 to Ms. Pasher if interested. [email protected]
- Royal City Soccer – looking for volunteers! RCSC volunteer poster 2024
- Binbrook Bisons Minor Baseball – looking for Spring/Summer student volunteers! Check out the flyer for more details: Binbrook Bisons Baseball Volunteer Poster
- March Break: SPCA
- Binbrook Agricultural Society looking for volunteers at the Binbrook fair – (Sept 2023) – email [email protected]
- Cancer Society – volunteer opportunities:
- Need volunteer hours??Fantastic opportunity available for students to earn their volunteer hours this summer at the Winona Peach Festival in August!!
- You can volunteer with the Stoney Creek Optimist Club, with a variety of different volunteer roles!
Contact [email protected] to sign up. Stoney Creek Optimist Club – Winona Peach Festival
2. The Kinsman Club of Stoney Creek will also be running booths for volunteers to participate in!
Contact [email protected] to sign up.
- Opportunity for Grade 12 students to earn up to 10 hours of Community Service, while also possibly saving a life. This activity conforms to the guiding principles outlined in the Ontario Ministry of Education’s PPM 124a, and can be completed from the safety of home, during the current provincial lockdown. Students Saving Lives Community Service 2021 (2) (1)
- Kinsmen Club of Stoney Creek running booths at Winona Peach Festival this August. This is a fun opportunity to earn Volunteer Hours. You can contact Mr. Sheehan to sign up. [email protected]
- Tools to Build a Better World | Kambeo – Database of Volunteer Opportunities found on Kambeo
- HDWSB Community Clean Up -Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own reusable water bottle and a hat.
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Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/795358698029008
- Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
- Saltfleet Volunteer Opportunities
- Climb for Cancer
- Canadian Blood Services
- Ontario SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
- Hamilton & District Extend-A-Family
- https://www.mountainkidzklub.com/
- https://www.sparkontario.ca/
- YWC Youth Council Application_2020
- Volunteer Flyer Heritage Green Farmers Market pdf
- Charity Village
- www.kingsmeadow.ca
- Neighbour to Neighbour Food Bank is always looking for donations and volunteers
- Hamilton Victory Gardens
- Hamilton Victory Gardens is a non-profit organization that exists with the purpose to help alleviate poverty and hunger within the city of Hamilton. It does this through setting up larger scale food gardens around the city, that are largely run by the community, and volunteers. At the end of the season, the harvested crops go to local food banks and meal programs. Contact Olivia Schultz at [email protected]
- WoD Volunteer Poster
- www.cancerassist.ca
- www.tead.on.ca TEAD Volunteer Poster (Equestrian Association for the Disabled)
- SJHH_Volunteer Recruitment Poster
- Art Gallery of Hamilton Volunteer link
Resources:
Updated on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.