Volunteering - What can you do?

We welcome any interest in volunteering with our program. Our different opportunities include:

Inpatient and Home Volunteers

• Patient visits
• Assistance with basic nursing tasks
• Errands
• Spiritual care

Administrative Volunteer

• Help with mailings
• File, photocopy, collate
• Answer phones

Program Volunteer

• Make flower arrangements
• Sew memory bears or memory blankets
• Support fundraising events

Emergency Transportation

• Drive staff to patients' homes and inpatient unit in weather emergiencies

Other Possibilities

If you have a special skill, talent or professional training that could fill a need that is not listed, please feel free to call. For example, translating, art or writing skills are an asset. We have massage therapists and naturopathic physicians who donate their professional skills to our patients. In addition, after initial training and experience, some of our volunteers work with the Bereavement Department to help families after a loved one has died.