Pleasant Place, Inc.

Pleasant Place, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to providing a healthy and safe home for teenage girls who are pregnant and parenting while they finish school. 

Website: http://www.pleasantplace.net/angels.html

Contact: (352) 377-9669 ext. 104

What they do: Pleasant Place provides a healthy and safe home for teenage girls who are pregnant and parenting while they finish school.  These teen mothers are wards of the state because of neglect, homelessness, or abuse. 

What YOU can do to help: Volunteers are needed in the following areas:

Volunteer Angels: These volunteers teach the young mothers useful skills from finances to cooking.  Volunteers with experience in these areas are needed:

            Family Literacy

            Mentoring/Tutoring

            Counseling

            Cooking/Nutrition

            Family Development

Personal Angels: These volunteers “adopt” a mother and child for a year (or more) and give a heartfelt gift for that mother and child five times a year. 

House Angels: These volunteers donate much-needed items for the house, the mothers, and the babies. 

House: paper products, carpeting, housecleaning supplies, storage containers, laundry supplies

Mothers: bed linens, clothing (sizes 0 to 20), washcloths, blankets, towels, school supplies

Babies: diapers, toilet training pants, baby wipes, clothing (newborn-2T), books, strollers, blankets, toys, car setas

 

Welcome Baskets: Volunteers are needed to put together welcome baskets filled with necessities to donate to Pleasant Place.  Please fill a wicker clothes basket with the following items:

To volunteer, you will need to fill out a Volunteer Application Form (call the phone number listed above to get one).  Then you will need to go a personal interview before volunteering.  Once you have been accepted as a volunteer, you will get the formal Volunteer Personnel Policy (which outlines policies and guidelines).  You will have an orientation and training before volunteering as well.  If you volunteer more than 40 hrs a month or are not supervised directly by a paid employee of Pleasant Place, you must go through a background check, which includes a Local Criminal Record Check, Affidavit of Good Moral Character, Criminal Record Check, and Employment History Check (all this cost approx. $37).