Student Services

The Student Services Department offers Riekes Center students useful opportunities to become more involved with the community. You can gain valuable leadership and life skills while working in a fun environment with a supportive team. You can volunteer, receive accredited community service hours, work in trade for program tuition, or train towards becoming a future Riekes Center staff member. As a student worker, you receive all the benefits of being a Riekes Center student, as well as the joys of being a peer mentor and role model for others. We have many positions available, and we can tailor the program to meet your needs.

Student workers at the Riekes Center learn communication skills by giving tours of the Center, taking lunch orders, and helping other students to achieve their goals. They learn how to run a grill and cook pizza in our outdoor oven. Students also manage the live sound at our monthly concerts, answer phones, assist at the front desk, and help take care of the gardens at the Riekes Center.

Volunteer – Dedicate your time in the area of your choice. Volunteers get to enjoy the positive, high energy environment of the Center, discover new interests or passions, and meet new people.  You will also gain valuable experience and learn leadership skills.

Community Service – Receive credit towards your community service requirement. The Riekes Center is accredited to sign off on your community service hours. Gain all the benefits of being a student or volunteer while fulfilling requirements for your school or community.

Work Trade – Exchange your volunteer hours for your tuition in Athletic Fitness, Creative Arts and/or Nature Awareness programs. The Riekes Center gives students an opportunity to earn credits toward program costs in all of our departments.  Joining the Student Services team is an excellent way to learn about all the opportunities available at the Center while mentoring other students and learning valuable life skills. By becoming a student worker, you will help others achieve their goals while you are pursuing your own passions and interests.

Leadership Skills – Joining the Student Services team is one way to train to become a future Riekes Center staff member. You will learn the ins and outs of the Center, improve your communication skills, become a mentor and guide for other students, and improve your character by practicing the Center’s core values of honest communication, sensitivity to others and self supervision.

For more information about Student Services, please contact Lex Ebbink-Alemania at lex@riekes.org or call (650) 364-2509.