Volunteer Needs From: WVU Center for Community Engagement

Classroom Assistant

The Country Roads classroom is a vitally important place for our students. What happens in the classroom sets the foundation for our student education and development as independent individuals. Classroom Assistants are an invaluable resource to our students and educational specialists. Classroom Assistant responsibilities include: helping instructors with group activities, providing one-on-one classroom instruction to certain students, assisting students in completing in-class assignments/activities, and assisting students with in-class organization and time management.

Classroom peers may also assist Country Roads students with their homework and after-class activities. Study Hall is scheduled for Thursday 5:30-6:30 pm in Lincoln Hall; however, students have assignments due throughout the week and may benefit from working with a peer mentor. 

Activity Peer

The objective of the Activity Peer is to help facilitate the Country Roads student's understanding and participation in regular campus activities. There are many options available on campus such as concerts or plays at the Creative Arts Center, various sporting events, or different interest groups available that would be meaningful to the students.

On or off-campus clubs and organizations such as fraternities or sororities, student government, and community projects are some more great ways for students to get involved. Many of our students already play musical instruments and have other skills and abilities they want to be able to share. This is a great opportunity for relationships to begin, and for social skills to be modeled and learned. Students may have particular interests or may be completely open to trying new things!

Lunch or Dinner Peer

Eating with peers is always a welcomed activity, prompting relationships to occur spontaneously. This is a good chance for our students to be part of a “real college experience.” Country Roads students will have meal plans and will eat lunch and dinner on campus in the Towers Dining. Country Roads students, individually or in a small groups, are encouraged to adopt a meal on a particular day of the week to serve as lunch or dinner buddies for one or both of these meals.

If interested, please email Dr. Lesley Cottrell at  lcottrell@hsc.wvu.edu. 

The CED serves as a bridge between the university and community to meet the needs of people with disabilities through research, education and service. To help meet these needs the CED educates students, families and professionals on best practices. Education and training is provided through one on one consultations, group trainings, academic coursework and mentoring.

The CED works to train students who will be working in the field of disabilities or health related careers to build a workforce that is knowledgeable about how best to serve individuals with disabilities and their families. Providing continuing education to those already in the workforce is equally important and the CED provides many professional development opportunities across the state.

The CED and many of its programs have training components related to their area of expertise. Visit the Training page linked below to learn more: https://cedwvu.org/education/

These training opportunities could be counted as service hours if approved before the training event. 

Contact Dr. Lesley Cottrell at lcottrell@hsc.wvu.edu if interested in assisting or participating in a training.

Looking for a place to earn observation hours for a clinical placement? Interested in how professionals support the individualized needs of diverse families? Want to see the innerworkings of an interdisciplinary team? Looking for an in-person learning experience with feeding and swallowing?

We welcome students to observe our Feeding and Swallowing Clinic. In fact, we have multiple students involved in clinic each week. Students here at Feeding Clinic represent a variety of majors including speech pathology, social work, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, medicine, pharmacy, law, education, counseling, nursing, psychology, and early intervention. During clinic, licensed mentors from SLP, OT, Psych, Social Work, Law, and Dietetics work together as a team to provide feeding assessments and needs assessments.

If you are interested in observing at Feeding Clinic, you will need to complete a registration form, HIPAA training, and Media Consent Form. Once you register via iServe, we will make the required documentation available to you.  

Contact: Dr. Cassie Miller at ccorbett@hsc.wvu.edu