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Nemours KidsHealth
So what can you do to help people who need it? The answer is – volunteer! Volunteering means spending some of your free time helping others. You may volunteer to help other people, such as the families who lost their homes after a natural disaster. Volunteering helps others, but it can also help you, too. Volunteering lets you spend some time focusing on others for a while. Lots of people – and kids – find that they really enjoy volunteering. Volunteer experiences often put you in a different environment and expose you to people and situations that you wouldn’t have come across in your regular life. Your local parks department also might have some suggestions for how kids can volunteer. Often kids start volunteering by working alongside their parents. You might be too young to prepare food at a soup kitchen, but if your parents volunteer there you might be able to go along and pitch in. Volunteering gives kids a taste of responsibility because people are depending on them for something important. A volunteer job can even help some kids decide what they want to do when they grow up.
Clearances
The Child Protective Services Law requires certain individuals to obtain clearances in order to be employed, be a resource parent, or be a volunteer with children. The purpose for requiring clearances is to provide employers and those selecting volunteers with information to use as a part of a larger decision-making process when determining whether to hire someone as an employee or select them as a volunteer. Clearances are required for an employee or unpaid volunteer at a minimum of every 60 months from the date of the oldest clearance. Clearances may be required more frequently based on licensure or employer requirements. Only a requirement for prospective adoptive parents, prospective foster parents, employees or volunteers of child-day care centers, employees or volunteers of group day-care homes, and employees or volunteers of family child-care homes. Only a requirement for employees and volunteers of child day-care centers, group day-care homes or family child-care homes.
Hospital Volunteer Program
CHOC assigns volunteer positions based on the current needs of the hospital along with the volunteer’s availability, interests and skill sets. Currently, our highest needs are shifts scheduled Monday-Friday between 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Night and weekend positions are limited. Help visitors and families in the Family Resource Center. Offer coloring and reading activities for patients in our waiting/lobby areas. Assess the comfort needs of families on the many units. Detailed information about our volunteer roles is provided at our information sessions. Our volunteer program does not offer job training, internship, practicum or medical shadowing programs. Volunteer services does not offer any type of one-day volunteer opportunities. Anyone interested in coming to visit our patients for one day to host a special event must receive approval by our child life department. Please visit our special visitor guidelines to learn more.
Kids Meals Inc
Volunteer delivery drivers meet our staff driver at our office location to pick-up food supplies and information at 9am. Volunteer drivers will deliver meals to the children’s homes in their own vehicle. Volunteer drivers can reserve one or up to five of the available routes. Each route will take around two hours or less to complete. Volunteer delivery drivers must have a valid driver’s license and insurance. It is encouraged to have two or more volunteers per vehicle. What other volunteer opportunities can I take part in? No need to fill out an application! Email us if you have any questions. Assemble lunch packs for hungry children right from your facility. Purchase pre-packaged lunch items, pack lunch packs and have fun! Watch this quick video detailing how here! Help bring awareness about ending childhood hunger through your social networks. Sponsor a family for the holidays and experience their joy as you deliver food or gifts.
Volunteer
Volunteers at Primary Children’s Hospital are an integral part of the hospital’s goal to deliver the highest quality care for children. Due to the high interest in volunteering, only positions currently in need of volunteers will display. Volunteer positions are reviewed and evaluated on a monthly basis. Requirements Volunteers must be at least 16-years-old. We ask that volunteers make a minimum 6-month commitment. Volunteers must commit to one 3-hour shift per week. Volunteers are required to pass a drug test, background check, be current on immunizations, and have an annual flu shot. Immunizations and background checks are provided at no cost to volunteers 18 years and older. Training Volunteers will be required to attend an orientation meeting. Kids Crew volunteers will have an additional 2-hour training. All other volunteers will be trained one-on-one with an experienced volunteer.
Books Between Kids
We are currently not open for public volunteer shifts due to COVID-19 restrictions. Volunteering at our warehouse can be a fun and rewarding experience. Projects vary based on needs but may include counting/inventorying donations, sorting books, boxing books, helping to stock the sorting tables, and cleaning the warehouse. Our volunteer shifts are 2 hours in length and are held at the Books Between Kids warehouse. You can also view additional details about the warehouse volunteer shifts by viewing our Volunteer Details or our FAQs page. Please provide 1 adult to supervise every 2 children under age 10 and 1 adult for every 5 children ages 10-15. Children above the age of 16 can volunteer on their own. Please note that our dock-high warehouse is not, at this time, ADA accessible. Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs so we can do our best to accommodate you.
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