Programs

Madison House Boosters serve as teacher’s aids in local classrooms (K- 5th grade).

The mission of Holdiay Sharing is to brighten the holiday season for a number of needy families in Charlottesville. The volunteers works with the Salvation Army, which provides us with a list of families to provide a "gift package" for, and the volunteers take it from there!

The Medical Services Program is an opportunity for volunteers to combine invaluable community service with valuable educational experience, through human contact and support. Volunteers assist staff, patients, and families at medical facilities in Charlottesville: U.Va. Health System, Charlottesville Free Clinic and Martha Jefferson Hospital.

Outreach Services is a service area of Madison House where volunteers are trained in a specialized skill that is used in outreach to the community or fellow UVA students. Unlike the other programs of Madison House, where volunteers are matched to a specific person or site for their volunteering, Outreach Services volunteer reach a wider audience through their sessions and trainings.

Volunteers work at several local agencies providing specialized recreation, rehabilitation and companionship services such as Charlottesville Area Riding Therapy (CART), Therapeutic Adventures, Region Ten's Meadowcreek Center for mental retardation, Virginia Institute of Autism, and ARC of the Piedmont.

The Men's Leadership Project at the University of Virginia is an innovative community-based leadership development and mentoring program designed to build and reinforce authentic and responsible leadership capacities of both undergraduate men and elementary school boys. MLP accomplishes this mission by training and pairing a diverse group of undergraduate men with a select group of fifth grade boys at Walker Upper Elementary School and a select group of sixth grade boys at Burley Middle School, both in Charlottesville, VA. MLP is especially committed to understanding a wide range of masculinities, fostering a gender-aware perspective on leadership development and mentoring, and encouraging active participation in respectful, healthy, pro-social and anti-violent community roles for those who identify as men and boys.

Migrant Aid serves Albemarle County and Charlottesville region’s migrant community through four programs. With Homework Helpers, Hispanic Family Night, International Family Night, and Adult Tutoring, volunteers tutor migrant workers and their families.

PLAY is a brand new program at Madison House that serves community centers and schools in Charlottesville and the surrounding community with mentors and role models that work with students who need them most in an after-school environment.

The Rappahannock Legal Services Clinic (RLS), run by the Legal Assistance Society, is a project intended to provide the community's indigent population with invaluable legal services. UVa School of Law student volunteers deal with such issues as bankruptcy advice, debtor/creditor issues, family law, and landlord-tenant law. Those student volunteers who have taken certain required courses (such as Evidence) may have the opportunity to actually counsel some of Rappahannock's clients (with the help of the Rappahannock attorneys). However, this project is open to all law students, regardless of classes taken. This clinic is held every Friday afternoon in Culpeper, Va. Students who commit themselves to this project are asked to volunteer one to two afternoons per semester.

With the primary grades the most critical for developing good reading skills, tutors will work with children on reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and phonics.