KEEP Mentoring Program(top)

Held once a month at the SCARC Community Center at 4 Camre Drive, Newton, NJ 07860, from 6:30-8pm. Volunteers guide and assist developmentally disabled individuals on art projects. No artistic ability required to volunteer here. Great social interaction for everyone involved! Contact Raffaela Bonventre or at (973)726-9777 for more information or to sign up to volunteer for this program!

Pass It Along is pleased to partner with The Nature Conservancy a leading conservation organization that works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.  PIA volunteers work on various projects and programs throughout the year. Please email Patricia Chesnulovitch for more information. Dates and times vary depending on projects.

Pass It Along is happy to partner with Habitat for Humanity, a people-to-people partnership drawing families and community together with volunteers and resources to build decent, affordable housing for people in need. Please contact Chase Nancy-Lynn Burns to register as a volunteer.

This program brings youth together though discussion and action while providing opportunities for growth and exploration as an individual and as a part of a diverse community. It is a program that helps youth understand each other by being present in mind and body, being honest with ourselves and others, talking about our own experiences, and listening and giving everyone a chance to speak. Please email Diane Taylor for more information.

This alliance is a partnership between Pass It Along, the Sussex County College Center for Diversity and Equality, and Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Intervention Services.  Become part of a group that consists of SCCC students and other community members whose goal is to reduce the numbers of power-based violence in Sussex County.  This alliance will afford members the opportunities to learn about the Green Dot Strategy, a comprehensive approach to violence prevention that capitalizes on the power of peer influence that targets all community members as potential bystanders, and seeks to engage them, through awareness, education and skills practice, in proactive behaviors that establish intolerance of violence as the norm, as well as reactive interventions in high risk situations, ultimately resulting in the reduction of violence in our community.  Simply put, Green Dots are individual choices that meet in a shared vision creating the momentum of a social movement.  The Alliance meets twice a month at the Center for Diversity & Equality at SCCC.  For more information contact Raffaella Bonventre or call the office at 973-726-9777.

Ben's Bells (top)

After losing their son, Ben at 3 years old his family founded the Ben's Bells project as part of a coping strategy. They came up with a design for Ben’s Bells and started making them with friends. The therapeutic effect of working with clay was amazing as was the power of being
surrounded by people talking and working toward a common goal. Ben’s Bells symbolize kindness and its power in healing. Annually hundreds of the Bells are distributed randomly throughout the community to encourage kindness.

This program meets on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month to design, make and paint the charms that will become Ben's Bells. Bring a Buck policy: Volunteers are asked to bring $1 to help offset the cost of the materials. For more information and to register for this program please contact Cassie at cassieshugart@yahoo.com at or call the office at 973-726-9777.