Thinking about volunteering
To determine what volunteer opportunities may suit you best, try asking yourself these questions to help determine what facet of volunteering may suit you best.
•If you had all the human and financial resources in the world, what problems would you solve, what would you change or what would you create? Your answer will tell you what matters the most to you
•What kind of time commitment are you willing to make?
•Are you looking for a regular weekly volunteer commitment or maybe a short-term or one-time opportunity
•Would you like to develop a specific skill?
•Why would you like to volunteer at our organization?
•Do you have specific skills or talents you would like to share with our organization?
•What are your personal goals?
•Would you like to re-enter the workforce?
•Meet new people?
•Would you like to volunteer with other people or by yourself?
Benefits of volunteering
•make a difference in someone’s life
•build self-esteem and self-confidence
•make important networking contacts
•learn or develop skills
•gain work experience
•help you meet new people
• improve health
•feel needed and valued
•express gratitude for help you may have received in the past from our organization
How to Apply
To protect all volunteers, clients and staff and create and maintain a safe environment we require this process to be followed:
•fill out application [.7 MB]
•criminal record check is required
•called in for an interview session
•references are checked
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