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Youth & Student
Volunteering

Whether you need community service hours for school credit or are a youth just looking for ways to help animals in need, we’d love your help! Learning to give back to your community can help foster empathy, compassion, and advocacy for folks working with shelter animals and in animal welfare more generally. Youth can offer their skills and passion to help our animal residents in many ways. Please read below to find out how!

Elementary Level Service Packet— The packet outlines activities and projects for elementary-aged students. Use this packet to earn school credit or to create items for our shelter animals.

Middle School/High School Level Service Packet— The packet outlines activities and projects for middle and high school students. Use this packet to earn school credit or to create items for our shelter animals.

Tales for Tails Reading Program – Youth ages 9-18 volunteer at the shelter, providing reading enrichment to our animal residents.

Shelter & Thrift Store— Youth ages 9-18 can volunteer at the shelter, and youth ages 12-18 can volunteer at our thrift store.


Age Requirements

Nine years old: Minimum age to volunteer at the shelter.

9-15 years old: Must be actively accompanied by an adult 21+ at the shelter.

12 years old: Minimum age to volunteer at the thrift store

12-15 years old: Must be actively accompanied by an adult at the thrift store

Sixteen years old— Minimum age to volunteer without adult supervision at the Shelter and Thrift Store with management approval.

Youth & Student Volunteer Application

Once your application is received, the Volunteer Department will contact you with the next steps in the application process. Some programs require training, and some do not. We may not always be able to accommodate all student volunteer inquiries, but we try our best.

Click on “Apply Yourself” below if you’d like to do one of the service packets. If you want to apply for the Tales for Tails reading program, click here. If you wish to apply for shelter or thrift store opportunities, click here: https://www.hsco.org/volunteering/thrift-store-volunteering

Volunteer Application
We welcome you to apply to our volunteer program