High School Diploma
Listed on 2026-10-07
-
Non-Profit & Social Impact
Youth Development, Community Health, Volunteer / Humanitarian, Non-Profit / Outreach
Jesuit Volunteers also have the opportunity to serve in other US regions through our sibling organization, Jesuit Volunteer Corps .
Below is a list of opportunities organized by location and by category of service. As part of your application to become a Jesuit Volunteer, we’ll ask about your service preferences, but we ask all applicants to be open to where the need is greatest, and we may ask you to consider options you had not initially thought about. Visit The JV Experience to learn more about the application process.
PositionFocus
Ameri Corps Status
Ameri Corps
Service Impact Area
Capacity Building
Primary Role
Environmental Conservation, Education, or Restoration (Ameri Corps)
Length of Service Term
12 months
Primary Service Area
Ability/Disability Resources
Populations Served
Children and Families, Individual with physical or intellectual disabilities, Teens/At-Risk/Opportunity Youth
Other Issues and Roles
Education (K-12 School), Environmental Stewardship, Food and Hunger
Brief Position
Description:
Serve on a Farm while building meaningful relationships with people with intellectual disabilities! As you plant, weed, water, harvest, and sell produce, you'll serve alongside people with disabilities, learning to support and be supported by them as colleagues.
You'll also guide volunteers, both individually and in groups of all sizes, in the mission of our Community: to make known the gifts of people with intellectual disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships.
A typical day on the Farm begins at 8:00 AM, arriving in the community vanpool. At this point you run through the morning routine for the Farm: tending to the chickens (water, feed, eggs), opening the greenhouses, checking on plants, and prepping the site for service and/or groups that may be coming to the Farm. This can also be a time to meet directly with any particular staff/Supervisor.
At 8:30 AM we have a team meeting where we check in to talk about the day and week. This is an opportunity to discuss groups, schedules, challenges and changes to the service plan.
At 9:00 AM we have our group meeting with the full crew, including core members (individual with disabilities) and volunteers. This can be up to 16 people at the meeting or more when there are groups. Around 9:30-9:45 everyone transitions into service attire and moves into their assigned tasks; planting, shoveling, trimming, harvesting, weeding, etc. These tasks can occur in larger groups or smaller specific groups.
Sometimes you will be the lead depending on the groups and tasks assigned. Most times core members leave at lunch time; however, lunch sometimes includes a celebration of some kind, such as for birthdays. The afternoon looks similar to the morning, except that there are often fewer core members on the Farm.
Service is set up in groups -- you could be serving with one core member or part of a small group completing a task. After core members depart the Farm, we will finish projects or any prep needed and decompress the day. Depart from the Farm around 4:00 PM.
Required & Preferred SkillsEducation Requirements
High School Diploma
Driver's License Requirement
Yes
Vehicle Requirement
A vehicle owned by your organization or program
Nature of Driving
Daily, drive a minivan to commute approximately 20 minutes from the JV house to service site. (If there are multiple JVs at the agency, this responsibility is shared.) About once a week, driving our 15-passenger van to take produce and/or core members to farmers markets. Picking up or dropping off supplies and produce to LTH homes, using either the 15-passenger van or the minivan.
Most of these trips are within 15 miles of the Farm and occur 2 or 3 times per week. L'Arche provides practice time in the 15-passenger van before the member is scheduled to take it on a public road.
Spanish Language Requirement
No requirement other than English
Preferred Spanish Language Level
No requirement other than English
Additional Languages and Level Preferred
Required experience, qualities, or specialized training
Openness to personal growth as well as engaging the mission of L'Arche.
Preferred experience, qualities or specialized training
Background in learning from and teaching others, environmental awareness, and/or supporting individuals with…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).