SERVICE Opportunities

Service Hour Form 25-26

Anyone with questions about service or

learning about different service activities please contact

Mr. Daniel Cummings at [email protected] or

201-445-4466 at extension 229.

Current service opportunities are listed below:

Year-round service opportunities are listed below:

Camp Sunshine and Camp Snowflake

Saddle River County Park

(Wild Duck Pond Area)

1133 E. Ridgewood Avenue

Ridgewood, NJ 07450

(Updated July 1, 2025)

Camp Sunshine/Snowflake is a recreational program for children and adults with multiple disabilities. Here at camp, they strive to provide a nurturing, engaging, and inclusive environment for our campers.

CAMP SNOWFLAKE:

Camp Snowflake, founded in 1970, is a similar program to Camp Sunshine, with its reliance on one-to-one attention and its adapted activities. Snowflake meets once per week, on Saturday afternoons from 12:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M., from September - April, except for holidays. Camp Snowflake serves as a recreational and social meeting place for our campers during the school year.

Activities include arts & crafts activities, adapted games, and special events such as pizza days, Holiday parties, and Olympics Day.

CAMP SUNSHINE:

The Camp Sunshine opens each summer for 8 weeks (Monday–Friday, 9:00 A.M.-3:30 P.M.) It is unique among its peers because of its corps of volunteers who provide one-on-one care to our campers. Each volunteer has the opportunity to assist one camper in various camp activities throughout the day.

Camp Sunshine provides its campers with this opportunity and affords them the necessary supervision. Even though they may have orthotics or wheelchairs, Camp Sunshine eliminates the barriers of the everyday world. Bridging these gaps has great rewards in building self-esteem, emotional growth, and social relationships. The permanent facility serves disabled children and young adults from Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Morris, and Sussex Counties. At Camp Sunshine, you will find no obstacles to overcome. Everything is adapted to suit the needs of our campers.

The staff and volunteers ensure that our campers get the fullest enjoyment from the opportunities offered at Camp Sunshine.

Please reach out to Camp Snowflake directly if you are interested in volunteering with them this year. Please see the contact information below.

Call or email for more information:

Phone: 201-652-1755 Email: [email protected]

Please see the application for Camp Sunshine and sign up!

Please see the application for Camp Snowflake and sign up!

Project Sunshine

Activity Kits

Project Sunshine will send families a box that will let them create 100 Activity Kits, which they send back to Project Sunshine for them to distribute to Hospitals for children undergoing treatment.

For more information, please visit:

Project Sunshine Activity Kits. https://projectsunshine.org/activitykits.

To volunteer, please contact Gregory Feigeles directly at

[email protected] or call him at 347-400-116.

To receive credit for service hours completed with this project, students must attach pictures of the completed activity kits to their PCHS Service Hour forms. Parents must then sign the PCHS Service hour form documenting the service that their student completed.

100 activity kits equal 2 hours of service.

CareOne - Harmony Village

Harmony Village has assisted living apartments for people requiring memory care. Harmony Village at CareOne Paramus is looking for volunteers to do various activities with their residents over the summer. The requirements to participate are as follows:

Must be fully vaccinated w/ booster
Must be 16 years old (minimum)
Will require a PPD (which can be done at our facility)
Complete the application and have a signed parental consent form

CareOne will instruct Paladins on our dementia programs and how to adequately work with the residents. For those Paladins interested in caring for these senior citizens, please reach out to

Jose Morocho

Director of Recreation

Harmony Village at CareOne Paramus

189 Paramus Rd, Paramus, NJ 07652

P: 551.276.7249 C: 201.961.4785

Email: [email protected]

People to People

For decades, People to People has been assisting

Rockland County NY community’s most

vulnerable families, anxious seniors, and worried veterans.

All of us at People to People believe that by helping our neighbors meet their basic needs, we make the world a better place. Paladins 14 and up may sign up to volunteer with this organization.

To learn how you can support and volunteer with this organization,

please visit https://www.peopletopeopleinc.org/volunteer.

Pony Power Therapies Using Horses to Help People

This non-profit organization uses horses and an accessible farm to enhance the physical,

social and emotional well-being of children and adults who need extra support.

Paladins who are interested in volunteering can assist in being

a side walker, a lead walker, or with the farm crew.

To learn more about the requirements and to

volunteer, please visit ponypowernj.org.

One-to-One Learning

One to One Learning is a nonprofit organization that helps non-English speaking

Immigrants learn ESL to better enrich their lives. Speaking the language helps people be more involved in their communities and helps them be able to get jobs that can provide more for their families. Classes take place on Monday and Wednesday Nights,

and tutoring opportunities as well as watching children are available.

Please Contact One to One Learning

if you are interested by clicking on the following LINK

Additional Service Opportunities

in and with Catholic Charities

See below Information below:

For more information about ongoing and new volunteering opportunities,

please check the Catholic Charities Volunteer Opportunities

website and sign up to be a volunteer today