Application

Applications are available from your school coordinators.   If you are volunteering at your school you need to fill out an application, so that your school can find the correct placement of your interest. Also, in case of an emergency the school knows whom to contact.

Background Check/Youth Leader Request

All school volunteers are required to fill out an annual background check, which is a criminal records check.

After you complete the background check it will be sent to Central Office and it will then be sent to Frankfort, KY to be process.  It will take at least 10 working days, so get them early.   The YLR can be obtaining from your School Volunteer Coordinator or you may copy one from this web site and mail it to Central Office.

If you know that you will be volunteering the next school year, you may complete a background check next year after March 1, so that you will be able to volunteer the first day of school.  Please only fill one form per person and circle all the schools that you will be volunteering at.

Confidentiality

As you work with the staff and students, information of a confidential matter may be shared with you.  The problems, abilities, relationships and confidence of student’s parents and staff should never be discussed with anyone who does not have a professional right to know.  Please respect the students and staffs privacy, like you would your own.

Name Badges

When you are on a school campus, it is important that you wear your name badges for identification.  This is a safety issue for everyone.

Orientations

All volunteers should attend a volunteer orientation.  These orientations are held at each school in the month of August, September or October.  The orientations are held in an informal setting to make you aware of the expectations as volunteer and the school rules.   You may also receive some specific instructions pertaining to a particular of volunteerism.  The orientations will also give you a chance to meet other volunteers that will be working at your school.

Qualifications to be a Volunteer

You should have:

¨         a genuine interest in students

¨         A professional commitment to your volunteer activity

¨         a regular attendance, if required

¨         a cooperative attitude

¨         a willingness to attend a orientation

Recognition of Volunteers

The paycheck for your volunteer services, we hope will be a really be a rewarding satisfaction in the service you give to our HCS students. 

The annual “Spring Volunteer Appreciation Celebration” has become a heart-warming event.  At this celebration the entire Harden County Schools staff and students says “Thank You” by planning a special evening to honor and appreciate all that you do for the HCS.

An invitation is send to every volunteer that has volunteered at least ten hours of service.  We sincerely hope that you and your adult guest will make plans to attend this festive event.

Certificates of Appreciation are awarded to each volunteer.  The certificates will be distributed at your home school.  Your home school will be the school were you volunteer.   If you volunteer at more than one school then the school of the highest level will be your home school.

Representing Your School

As a volunteer you will contribute to the image of the school in the eyes of students, their parents and the community. Thus your attitude should be to maintain a positive image for the school, which is in the best interest of students and the entire community.

Supervision

Volunteers always need to work under the direct supervision of the principal, volunteer coordinator or teacher at each school.  Volunteers should always work only with the teachers to whom they have been assigned.  Hardin County Schools are responsible for the education, safety and the well being of each student.

Signing In/Out

In case of emergency, security reasons and for keeping track of your volunteer hours you will be required to sign in and out each time that you volunteer at your school.