Become a hospice volunteer today Your smile can cheer up someone’s entire day. Your time can significantly improve their quality of life. Your help with every day tasks can make the difference between frustration and fulfillment. Every day healthcare volunteers help their neighbors and are rewarded with the appreciation of those they serve.
Who Can Become a Volunteer? Serenity volunteers are men and women of all ages and backgrounds. From the nine-year-old boy who plays the piano for residents of long term care facilities to the eighty-three year old woman who helps prepare meals, healthcare volunteers assist the Serenity Hospice staff with patient care and family support.
What Does a Volunteer Do? Serenity volunteers bring their own special warmth and unique personalities to home health and hospice patients and their families. Volunteers support the services already provided by nurses, aides, and family members. They offer comfort and companionship.
•Volunteers in Direct Service
To be a caring, supportive, and empathetic individual, providing help for the patient, family, or other primary caregiver. Services may include:
– Household tasks
– Meal preparation
– Reading
– Playing games
– Companionship
– Childcare
– Yard work
– Support
– Providing a listening ear
– Transportation
– Shopping & running errands
– Emotional support
•Volunteers in Administration
A wide variety of office support and administrative support projects are available.
•Volunteers in Community Education
Volunteers help to familiarize the public with Hospice services, dispel misconceptions, and inform the community about the special needs of the home bound and terminally ill.
•Professional “Talent Pool”/Consultant Volunteers
Consulting volunteers include professionals in all walks of life, including: Attorneys, accountants, public relation specialists, pharmacists, spiritual advisors, community clergy, fund raisers, and investment specialist.
What Type of Training is Provided? Serenity offers extensive training to all volunteers. Topics include communication skills, family dynamics, grief and bereavement, home safety, personal safety, stress management, infection control, and Complementary\Alternative Medicine. The amount and scope of training a volunteer receives is dependant upon the type of services they will be providing.
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6975 SW Sandburg Street,
Suite 200
Portland, OR 97223
