Health & Human Services

Animal Rehab and Rescue is designed for students to give back to the community by helping animals. A large number of our activities revolve around volunteering. Some examples would include visiting an animal shelter or organizing adoption events.

We are a student-run health club that focuses on empowering students to become contributors to the health community through education, collaboration, and experience. Activities include guest speakers, case studies, discussions about higher education and career paths, and hands-on experiences.

Best Buddies is an organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Students with disabilities (Buddies) are paired based on compatibility with a general education peer (Peer Buddies) to form a friendship for the current school year. Each month there will be: a Best Buddies meeting after school, a group activity schedule (i.e. bowling, movie, dance, attend a school sporting event, etc.), and an activity with their peers (outside of the group activity). Follow them at @MVHSBB

Filling Hearts with Hope is an organization which strives to bring joy to children who are patients in local hospitals. The organization runs a variety of charitable drives in order to collect toys and gift items geared towards all children. Filling Hearts with Hope is open to all students who wish to help with these efforts.

 (Naperville Chapter) aka “Snowball” is a fun, captivating, and popular youth leadership development program. 360 Youth Services partners with Districts 203 & 204 to coordinate this teen-led and adult supported program for area high school students. Each two-day retreat (fall and spring) engages teens in relevant and interactive activities in a safe and respectful environment that helps support growth of our social emotional skills and well-being.

Real Men Real Talk is a club to support the male students with encouragement, leadership, career awareness, relationships, and real- life conversations. We discuss situations regarding what if and how would you handle different situations. We invite guest speakers in to share their life stories. The purpose is to mentor young men and come together with their challenges and to learn how to better navigate their own future life skills and deal with whatever comes into their life. We will discuss how to overcome their obstacles. They will have someone to listen to them, offer advice, and stay positive as they grow to be real men while attending high. We especially focus on students who are participating in sports and meet after school before practices while encouraging students to do their best and be a positive role model to others. They might even enjoy some food during the meetings.

Special Olympics is an athletic organization created to help people with intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence, social skills and a sense of personal accomplishment. It is also for those students who have an interest in working with special need students. Athletes (students with disabilities) can compete in lots of different sports alongside partners (students without disabilities). Unified sports are sports where athletes and partners compete together. Traditional sports are just for athletes but partners are able to support the athletes at practice and events. SO is a great organization to be part of to get involved, active and make lifelong friends! Follow at @someteavalley

Click here to be redirected to the Metea Valley Special Olympics landing page!