Volunteer in PUSD

Awesome! PUSD is fortunate to have many community volunteers who generously donate countless hours to inspire and enrich student learning. 

Contact your main office to see if there is an assignment available.  They will process all forms needed and stay in contact with you through the process.

Yes. Current employees and retired employees must register as volunteers at the school site they wish to volunteer at. Please speak with your school's main office for further processing.

Definitely not!

The vast majority of volunteers work under the close supervision of a PUSD certificated staff member. For example: chaperoning a field trip, helping in a classroom or library, tutoring students in the back of the classroom or in the art, drama or science rooms. 

Only a few volunteers who take on the considerable responsibility of working with students outside the supervision of certificated staff are authorized by school administrators for fingerprinting. 

All field trip chaperones are required to get checked on the MEGAN'S LAW database.

The majority of chaperones for day field trips are NOT required to get fingerprint clearance (Level 2).  Level 1 Volunteer Clearance is sufficient for a daytime field trip as long as the volunteer is supervised by a teacher at all times. 

Volunteers attending an overnight field trip are required to obtain child safety clearance via our fingerprint process (Level 2). Your school's main office will authorize volunteers for fingerprinting by submitting a request to our Family & Community Engagement Office. Once we have the authorization from the school site, we will contact the volunteer to set up an appointment.  

No appointments can be scheduled without prior authorization from the school site. We do not take walk-ins for LiveScans.  You must have an appointment set up with the office staff before coming in for a LiveScan for Level 2 Clearance.

Yes! Everyone who volunteers at a PUSD school needs to be registered as a volunteer. Because your time is valuable, meet with your school's main office to confirm your assignment and to complete the forms required.