VOLUNTEERS

Volunteer Responsibilites

Volunteers are a very integral part of the Hospice Program. They bring the unique gift of themselves to support the dying patient and family.

Qualifications

• Desire to help, maturity, and nonjudgemental attitude, sensitivity to others' needs, kindness, honesty and simplicity.
• Listening skills
• Ability to help families remain independent through support
• Successful adjustment to his own losses
• Ability to accept families as they are without a need to change family patterns of behavior or religion

Basic Requirements

• Be at least 18 years old
• Demonstrates maturity, nurturance, and dependability
• Must be neat and appropriately dressed
• Willing to make a commitment to the Hospice Program
• Must have made adjustment to any recent significant losses
• Must not have had a signficant loss in the past year
• Completed the Hospice Basic Training Program
• Interviewed and approved by screening committee
• Willing to submit to background check and drug screening
  

For Volunteer opportunities & Bereavement Services, please call Margaret Lasater, Volunteer/Bereavement Coordinator at 231-547-7448.