About Field Trip Aide

Spend a morning creating amazing stories! Field Trip Aides support students as they engage in exciting writing activities, from generative memoir prompts to creating stories from pictures. Field Trip Aides help students with ideas, answer questions, encourage them to add more elements (like detail, action, and dialogue), and of course, offer lots of praise for their amazing writing. Additionally, we often ask Field Trip Aides to do the writing exercises alongside the students so they can model what needs to be done and act as inspiration.

Application Process

Fill out a short volunteer application at 826CHI. This application can be found at https://www.826chi.org/volunteer-form. As a part of this application, you will select a date to attend an hour-and-a-half New Volunteer Orientation. During this meeting, 826CHI staff will fill you in on all the specifics of programming and volunteering. To complete the application process, you will also be asked to fill out just a smidge more paperwork and a required background check.