Club Compass

Club Compass is a free community-based program that takes place after school. Club Compass focuses on social-emotional skill development, life skills, enrichment, and reading. Club Compass serves elementary students in Springfield Public Schools – District 186.

Every week Club Compass participants get to:

Develop social-emotional and leadership skills
Spend time with positive, caring adults
Participate in hands-on life skills and enrichment activities
Share a delicious meal alongside volunteers
Receive non-perishable food to take home for the weekend

Springfield, Illinois – District 186 Partner Schools

Black Hawk
Dubois
Graham
Harvard Park
McClernand

* 118 Students were served in 2023-24 (from 10 schools) with 98% improving in at least one of their social-emotional (SEL) skills.

SEL LESSONS

Lessons are taught weekly using the “Leader in Me” social-emotional (SEL) learning curriculum.

Community Partners

Provide enrichment activities, life skill lessons, and provide family-style dinners.

Meals

We keep our kiddos energized and ready to thrive!
Every week, each kid takes home a bag of shelf-stable food for the weekend through our Backpack Feeding Program.
At the end of each Club day, a family-style dinner is prepared for the kids, staff, and volunteers to share.

How can you help?

We are always happy to help you get involved! We have volunteer opportunities in which you can share life skills or an enrichment activity, supply a family-style dinner, or become a weekly mentor the the kiddos. Scroll down to sign up or contact us today!

Volunteer!

Volunteer

Club Compass Life Skills / Enrichment

For more information and to sign up, click below.

Community Partner Sign-Up

Club Compass Family-Style Dinner

Family-Style Dinner is a generous and rewarding way to give to our Club families. Click below to find out more information on how you can help! *note, available dates start January 2025.

Club Dinner Provider Sign-Up

Delivery Drivers Needed!

We are looking for drivers to help us deliver the Backpack Feeding bags to our School Year Program sites each week. Here’s how it works: you would pick up the bags (already made up) from Douglas Avenue United Methodist Church in the afternoon and then deliver them to 1 or 2 of the churches that we have programs happening on that day. You could sign up on a weekly basis or take a shift here and there as your schedule allows.

Delivery Driver Sign Up