SIA Brain Awareness Foundation, Inc.
SIA YORKER
COMMUNITY CARES YOUTH VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
GET INVOLVED
"Community Cares"
Serving Our Seniors!
5KÂ Brain Awareness Walk-A-Thon
Community Outreach Programs
Reading Pal ProgramÂ
Our Mission
To create intergenerational volunteer opportunities and programs that bring children and older adults together, allowing them to interact and form bonding relationships that benefit both the children and the older adults, as well as the larger community.
Volunteering with seniors allows children to be active and social within a community, allowing the child to help a potentially vulnerable member of society. Delivering meals or helping at a community dining site teaches the importance and kindness of helping other people.
What We Believe
The Sia Yorker Community Cares Youth Volunteer Program promotes community service through scholarships, brain awareness, education, food basket giveaways, clothing, toys, bicycle and helmet giveaways, community sponsorships, and other initiatives.
We also recognize the importance and long-term impact that community involvement, such as volunteering, can have on the lives of young people. The Sia Yorker Community Care Youth Volunteer program will not only educate and raise awareness among youth about the importance of community service in one's life, but it will also create volunteer opportunities for youth to connect with seniors who are unable to physically do some of the chores around the house that they once could, such as mowing the lawn, walking to the mailbox, watering the plants, putting up a Christmas tree, or reading the newspaper, due to health issues.
We believe that intergenerational programs bring children and older adults together, allowing participants and the larger community to interact and build relationships. Individuals benefit from these relationships in a variety of ways, as well as the development of bonds that strengthen communities.
We believe that by being their hands, feet, eyes, and ears, we can demonstrate "Community Cares" to our seniors.
Become A Volunteer
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Participation in volunteer and civic opportunities from an early age instills empathy, inspires a sense of citizenship, and helps youth find pathways to meaningful education and work. We believe young people who volunteer help to improve the present while ensuring healthy, secure futures for themselves and their communities.
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You can spark meaningful activities that will brighten the world through "Community Cares" Youth Volunteer projects! Assist a neighbor in need. Raking, mowing, weeding, and planting are all ways you can help. What are your strengths? Your efforts may benefit someone unable to access it.
Community Care's Youth Awareness and Education programs are designed for students in grades 1 through 12, however, adult volunteers, organizations, and businesses are welcome to volunteer and may sign up using the same volunteer form below.
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“The heart of a volunteer is not measured in size, but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference
in the lives of others.
During the Christmas season, youth serve our elderly by doing yard labor and putting up Christmas lights. This elderly woman spouse died just a few months before Christmas.
You Are A Gift To The Community!
The Sia Yorker Brain Awareness Foundation presented Mr. Eric Costello with the 2023 Sia Yorker Community Cares Youth Volunteer of the Year Award, with his parents and elder brother in attendance. Eric is a Pine Ridge High School AVID Program student who has been the foundation's first volunteer from the program's start in 2022, and he continues to serve the organization as a devoted, committed, and respected volunteer to this day.
Eric, You Are A Gift To The Community!
We Support
Pine Ridge High "AVID"
GO PANTHERS!
We Need You Volunteers:
5K Hemorrhagic Stroke Walk/Run
Check In/Out Table
Cheerers during 5K Walk
Fundraising Ambassadors (Raise Funds for 5K Walk)
Game Stations
Photographers
Venue Set Up & Tear Down
Social Media Experts.
Typists
Walkers
Water Station Keepers
Christmas Outreach to our Seniors (Older Adults)
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Christmas Carolers
Put Up Christmas Decorations for Seniors
Read to our Seniors
Yard Work/Grass Cutting for Seniors
Volunteer at a local Nursing Home
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Medical Science Scholarship Banquet Volunteers
Auctioneer
Creative Arts
Dancers
Emcee
Hostesses and Hosts
Photographers
Procurement Team (Secure Donations for Silent Auction)
Singers
Tech Team
Venue Set Up & Tear Down
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Please include your volunteer interests in the "Tell us your age, a little about yourself, and your skills" section.
If you have a skill that is not listed but think it would be useful to our organisation, please indicate it on the Volunteer form under "Tell us your age, a little about yourself, and skills."
Upcoming Events In 2024 & 2025
July 15, 2024
Sia's Happy Birthday
Poppin Popcorn Celebration!
Celebrate Sia's 33rd birthday on Monday, July 15, 2024, with the Poppin Popcorn Fundraiser. All donations are tax-deductible and help the Sia Yorker Medical Science Scholarship Fund.
Popcorn can be ordered
July 15th -19th
Thank you for your support this year!
2025 Sia Yorker
Medical Science Scholarship
Application Deadline
6 p.m. Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Completed applications must be received in the
P.O. Mailbox by 6 p.m.Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Join Us For the 2024 5K Hemorrhagic Stroke
Walk/Run Fundraiser
8a.m.-12 noon Saturday, October 19, 2024
Dewey Boster Sports Complex Pavilion 2 (near exercise equipment)
Deltona, Florida
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Our Mission is to promote Awareness of Brain Hemorrhage Symptoms & Raise Finances to Award Medical Science Scholarships to Central Florida High School graduates IN MEMORY of 19-year-old SIA CHRISTINE YORKER and others that have passed on due to a Hemorrhagic Stroke/Brain Bleed.
2024 Bowling Info Coming Soon!
THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS!
Please Join Us For The 13th Annual
Sia Yorker
Medical Science Scholarship Banquet &
Silent Auction Fundraising Event
Saturday, March 8, 2025
12 Noon At The Center At Deltona
1640 Dr. M.L.K. Blvd,
Deltona, FL 32725
$50.00 Per Person
"The Value Of Youth Interaction
With Seniors"
Interaction with older people can help our youth develop communication skills, empathy, respect, and patience. Interactions with younger generations, on the other hand, can provide older adults with cerebral stimulation as well as the ability to stay linked with societal changes and trends.
Eight reasons why your child should volunteer
1. It's Fun
It feels good to be a part of a movement that is positive and charitable in nature.
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2. Connect with People
​Volunteering gives teens and kids a chance to meet with people from all sorts of backgrounds who are united through a common cause.
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3. Make a Difference
​Volunteering really does make a difference. At the very least, the resources you give help to save money and allow the organizations you volunteer for to do more with the budgets and donations which they have.
​4. Be Appreciated
​Your child will be appreciated. When you volunteer with a willing and open heart, your efforts will be recognized. Volunteering gives your child the ability to grow and build a strong sense of self-esteem.
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5. Become Aware of what Life is like for the Less
Privileged
​For children who come from wealthy societies, or who come from families without hardship, volunteering allows them to become aware of what life can be like for the less privileged.
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6. Learn New Skills
​Volunteers learn all sorts of skills. They learn leadership, organizational, communication and people skills. They learn not only from volunteer leaders, but from peers, by mentoring new volunteers, and from the people they are helping too. Their opportunities to learn are not only multi-fold, but also multi-directional.
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​7. Explore Job and Career Possibilities
​If your children are interested in a particular career or type of job, volunteering in an organization which is related to their interest allows them to explore how they feel about working within that environment.
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8. Allows your child to complete the mandatory
community service requirement before graduating
from high school
Volunteering at a young age allows your child to accumulate more than enough community volunteer hours, focus on exam preparation, and devote necessary time to college applications.
How does engagement with children and young adults benefit seniors?
Participation in intergenerational programs and meaningful cross-age relationships may decrease social isolation and increase feelings of belonging, self-esteem, and well-being in older adults, while also improving social and emotional skills in children and youth. By interacting with younger generations, seniors are able to share important life lessons. On the flip side, younger generations are able to teach seniors new ways of looking at life. By building a connection with each other both generations are able to offer the respect and affirmation that humans crave.
Did You Know?
Volunteering opens doors to parts of the world and ourselves that supports learning and growth. Indeed, Winston Churchill once astutely observed, “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
Volunteering is the Way To GO!
Volunteering is a great way to meet new people, especially if you
are new to an area. Volunteering also strengthens your ties to the
community and broadens your support network, exposing you to
people with common interests, neighborhood resources, and fun
and fulfilling activities.
Volunteering also allows you to try out a new career without making a long-term commitment. It is also an excellent opportunity to obtain expertise in a new industry. In some disciplines, you can volunteer directly with an organization that does the work you're interested in.
You Are A Gift To The Community!
University High School students a
attended the "THINK BIG" Brain
Awareness Seminar hosted by the
Sia Yorker Brain Awareness
Scholarship Foundation, Inc.
We Support
University High
Academy of Biomedical Science
GO TITANS!
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The Sia Yorker Brain Awareness Scholarship Foundation, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit. Your contribution is
tax-deductible