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Clothing Closet
Help keep our clothing closet organized and functional! Generous community members donate professional and casual clothing year-round to our participants. These donations need to be sorted, organized, and distributed within the Closet. Just one hour of volunteerism allows TEEM to increase our service capacity for our Clothing Closet.
Transformation Time
Employment is one of the most impactful obstacles justice-involved individuals will face on their journey to self-sufficiency. Combat this with Employment Navigators as they help participants build resumes and apply for jobs every day in Transformation Time.
Hygiene Closet
TEEM serves many participants who often do not have access to typical hygiene products. Help TEEM serve our participants by organizing community hygiene donations and creating various types of hygiene kits.
Special Events
Volunteers are the driving force that makes our special events possible. From block parties to park cleanups, to cookouts inside a correctional facility — our volunteers make it happen. Help us facilitate a special event for our participants to enjoy.
Food Pickups
Many of our participants face food insecurity. TEEM’s generous community partners allow us to pick up weekly donations from Trader Joe’s, Panera Bread, and Insomnia Cookies. These donations help TEEM serve our participants in need. Please consider working alongside TEEM staff to pick up and drop off these community donations.
Kitchen Assistance
TEEM’s food pantry provides ingredients for our culinary classes and food boxes for participants. Help us keep our kitchens organized by rotating food items, cleaning and organizing storage, and breaking down extra boxes.
Clothing Closet
Schedule any Weekday between 8 am - 4 pm
Hygiene Closet
Schedule any Weekday between 8 am - 4 pm
Food Pickups
Transformation Time
Everyday between 8 am - 4 pm
Monday & Tuesday 8:50 pm - 9:50 pm; Saturday after 2 pm
Kitchen Assistance
Schedule any Weekday between 8 am - 4 pm
Mabel Basset: HOPE Behind Bars Study Group
Every Thursday 5 pm - 7 pm
Mabel Basset: H.E.R.O. Program
Empower: Resume Building
Time & Date are shifting: Stay tuned for updated information!
Once a Month 10 am - 12 pm
Empower Resume Building
TEEM Reentry program participants utilize the computer lab monthly to build resumes. Volunteers work alongside Reentry staff to answer computer questions, navigate Microsoft Word, and help with resume writing for future job applications.
Don’t See What You’re Looking For?
Not sure if these areas fit you and how you wish to help? Do you have other ideas on how we can better assist our participants? Reach out through our Volunteer Sign-Up form and let’s connect. We want to hear from you!
Ready to Volunteer?
Click HERE to read our Volunteer Training Manual.
Once that is complete, click HERE to fill out the necessary Volunteer Forms. You can email your forms to cwilliamson@teem.org or mail them to TEEM at 1501 N Classen Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73106.
Feel free to email the Volunteer Coordinators at cwilliamson@teem.org if you have any questions.
Create Your Volunteer Opportunity
Our volunteers bring a variety of skills, talents, and perspectives to our organization. Do you have a professional trade or skill that you would like to share? Would you like to donate your time through mentoring, legal assistance, academic tutoring, resume building, photography, or something all your own? Fill out the form below and let us know how you would like to get involved. Your support changes lives!
Volunteers from Mach Resources distribute gift bags during TEEM’s annual Thanksgiving meal.
Having Fun with Participants
Volunteers from Life Church race down an inflatable runner during the Roc the Bloc outdoor party.
Volunteer with Hope Behind Bars
A TEEM, Sarkeys, and 1577 Productions collaboration highlighting some of the college scholarship recipients of the Hope Behind Bars initiative at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center. Get to know the women you’ll be supporting through TEEM’s Mabel Bassett study group as they gain a higher education.
Thank you to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, MBCC staff, and Warden Tamika White for allowing TEEM, Sarkeys, and 1577 Productions to interview the MBCC participants and film “Hope Behind Bars”.
Support this initiative by volunteering! Volunteers allow us to increase the scholarship and study group capacity for the women at MBCC.
This video is copyrighted by 1577 Productions.
Giving Back
Mike - TEEM Volunteer
“I enjoy volunteering at TEEM because I get a chance to be a part of a “boots on the ground” effort to bring hope, self-discovery and self-empowerment to clients who are truly serious about changing their lives, and in turn their family members’ lives, for the better.”
Lucy - TEEM Volunteer
“If I have something that I can give, I want to be able to give that. And right now what I have is time.”
Tammy - TEEM Volunteer
“Volunteering at TEEM allows me to continue to be part of the solution, to help make a difference. It’s funny, the ladies think I come there to help them. When in reality, I am the one who changes every time I visit TEEM and see the faces of the students who have made a decision not to give up. I am better because of them.”