Provide support in the office: filing, preparing mailings, computer input, answering the phones, special projects.
As a volunteer, you’ll visit, make phone calls, attend support groups, attend memorial services and send bereavement mailings.
Create one-of-a-kind Memory Bears from VITAS patients’ clothes to comfort the family.
Visit patients and families at home, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, inpatient hospice units. Pay a friendly visit; relieve a family caregiver for an afternoon out; accompany a patient to the beauty salon, grocery store or a social event; read aloud; listen to memories; walk the dog; be the high point of someone’s day.
Patients and families explore their creative side and express their feelings through the visual arts.
Help comfort a senior in their last days in our hospice setting
Help by hosting a sneaker drive in your communities–churches, schools, or with local sports teams.
As a volunteer, you’ll partake in multiple levels of training and certification before serving in this capacity. Scholarships for these trainings are available. You’ll serve throughout TriHealth at Good Samaritan, Bethesda North, Evendale and Butler hospitals.
Is there a project you think would benefit the house? Let us know what you want to do. Past projects have included assistance with creating volunteer handbooks and developing activities for the Hattie and Eliza Stowe Educational Center.
Assist the site manager with press releases, neighborhood or targeted publicity, management of our website and social media accounts.