What can you do? Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island provides opportunities for you to use your time and talents in many ways. You decide how much time, how often and in what capacity you want to volunteer.
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Patient Care:
- Reading to a patient, playing cards, or just listening
- Providing transportation for a patient or family member
- Staying with a patient while a family member takes a needed break or keeps an appointment
- Helping patients write a journal
- Shopping or doing errands for a patient or family member
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Grief or Spiritual Support:
- Calling or visiting bereaved families to offer emotional support
- Praying with patients
- Delivering Holy Communion
- Comforting during vigils at end of life
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Community Outreach:
- Working on special events
- Helping with fundraising
- Providing information about hospice at health fairs
- Participating in our Speaker's Bureau
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Office Support:
- Typing, answering phones, filing, data entry
- Preparing mailings
- Photocopying
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Complementary Therapies
- Pet therapy
- Reiki therapy
- Music therapy
- Massage therapy
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There are so many ways you can help. Volunteer trainings are offered regularly. Please call our Volunteer Program Manager Bobbi Wexler at (401) 727-7070 or email her at bwexler@hhcri.org.
Download a Printable
Copy of the Volunteer Application (PDF)
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