Volunteers
Volunteer Opportunities
EDUCATIONAL
One of the goals of the facility is to educate residents in life skills and other educational subjects to allow the resident to succeed when released. We are looking for volunteers to lead residents in these courses:
- Job Readiness Skills
- Employment After Prison
- Basic Parenting
- Parenting from Prison
- Family Reunification
- Money Management
- GED Studies
ACTIVITIES
The residents also participate in activities like art, music, crafts, social and self-help organizations. We are looking for volunteers to assist in the following organizations:
- African Awareness
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Arts in Prison (music, choir, art, poetry)
- Fine Arts Society
- Hispanic Awareness
- Incarcerated Veterans
- Narcotic Anonymous
- Reaching Out From Within
- Mentoring 4 Success
RELIGIOUS
We are very lucky to have several volunteers for most of the residents’ religious needs. There are still some specific offender faith groups that would appreciate guidance from those similar faith groups outside the prison. Those are:
- Asatru
- Assembly of Yahweh
- House of Yahweh
- Islamic
- Judaism
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- Native American
- Rastafarian
- Thelema
- Wiccan
Why Volunteer?
- Lansing Correctional Facility depends upon the assistance of volunteers who work throughout the facility. People are able to volunteer for educational purposes to help residents with life skills, help with different religious studies or to assist with sports and athletic events. Volunteers also may assist staff with clerical duties. Volunteers may help weekly, bi-monthly or monthly.
Who can be a volunteer?
- Volunteers must be 21 years of age or older.
- Volunteers can be of any race, gender or ethnic group.
- Volunteers do not have to have any special education.
- Volunteers cannot have a close family member currently incarcerated with the Kansas Department of Corrections.
- Volunteers cannot be on a visiting list of any offender in Kansas Department of Corrections.
- Volunteers can be ex-offenders, and is decided on by a case-by-case basis.
To Become a Volunteer
1. Volunteers complete a volunteer application packet* and security check.
2. Volunteers receive approval from the volunteer group’s representative and volunteer services coordinator.
3. Volunteers complete the Lansing Correctional Facility volunteer training and commit to five visits to the facility per year.
For more information or to request a volunteer packet contact:
Laura Phillippi (e-mail)
Volunteer Services Coordinator
Lansing Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 2
Lansing, KS 66043
(913) 727-3235 ext. 58243
Fax: (913) 250-2755