Volunteer Checklist
Earhart encourages families and community members to volunteer. There are many ways to volunteer both on campus and at home. The link above will take you to all PTA managed volunteer opportunities. You can also ask your child’s teacher if they need any help with at home prep work or in class support, volunteer for lunch duty, or chaperone field trips.
Whether you volunteer through PTA or the school directly, and starting in Fall 2024, all on-campus volunteers must register online. This new registration system, which is super simple to use, allows you to select the sites at which you’d like to volunteer and upload the required documents, in just a few easy steps.
To learn more about the three different levels of volunteer clearance and register for the 2024-25 school year, please visit AUSD Volunteering.
- If you are currently cleared with AUSD, you can email Erica Verduzco in the office to get your copy of your TB paperwork to upload to the online portal. You do NOT need to get a new LiveScan nor TB clearance.
- If you are volunteering for the first time, clearance requires:
- LiveScan fingerprinting. LiveScan can be done on your own at various businesses in Alameda, a quick Google search will return various listings, who set fees independently. If the fees are cost-prohibitive to you, please contact PTA for assistance. The process only needs to be completed once! Your record will be active for the length of your student(s) time at Alameda Unified.
- To volunteer on campus only, more than twice a year, you will also need to submit a TB Risk Assessment or proof of a negative TB test, every 4 years.
Please keep copies of everything you submit.
Volunteer Guidelines
- Before volunteering, verify with the office to ensure that all documentation has been cleared by the district. This process may take 2 – 3 weeks.
- Volunteers must always sign into the office and wear volunteer identification at all times.
- Volunteers must use the staff restrooms in the main building.
- Volunteers are asked to be patient if their teachers need more time before they are ready for docent programs.
- If you have been cleared with LiveScan through another organization (Little League, Girl Scouts, etc.) you DO need also to be cleared through AUSD as there is no shared database for results.
These important requirements are not only state law but are in place to protect all of our children, as well as to protect you, the volunteer. Thank you for complying and for giving your time and talents to Earhart!