Volunteer Coordinator Manual - Florida Department of Juvenile Justice

PROGRAM SELF-EVALUATIONA “DO-IT-YOURSELF” VOLUNTEERPROGRAM SCORECARDWant to see how your program is doing? Below are some representativequestions to help you take the temperature of your program. The questions aretaken from a form previously published by the National Information Center onVolunteerism, P.O. Box 4179, Boulder, Colorado 80306. Of course, not allquestions are equally relevant to all agencies and/or programs. You might evenwant to make up some of your own scorecard questions.Scorecard Instructions:• Place two checks on each line if its true for you II• Place one check on each line if you’re uncertain or if it’s partly true I• Leave the line blank if it’s not true for your program• Please be sure to look at all the questions.PLANNING1. We spent at least three months planning our program, before it started,carefully consulting all relevant people.2. During this time we looked into at least three national publications on thesubject.RECRUITMENT AND SCREENING3. We have written volunteer job descriptions, at least two paragraphslong. .4. We deliberately go out after the kind of people who can fill our volunteerpositions.5. At least half of our volunteers are personally and consistently involvedworking directly with clients.6. We have definite plans or efforts to involve new types of people as volunteers(e.g., minorities, younger, older, poor).7. Before accepting volunteers, we use and study a volunteer backgroundregistration Form.8. Each volunteer is interviewed at least once before acceptance.9. Each volunteer is interviewed at least twice by different people. .10. At least half of the clients we think could benefit from volunteers have them.16-FPage 1 of 4