Best Friends Senior Citizens participate in a Best Friends program with area third graders. Interviews, activities, projects, and oral histories are part of the program that helps youngsters understand about growing older actively. Volunteers must enjoy being around children. This requires one day each month during the school year for about 1 hour. Friendly Visitors Volunteers make regular visits to homebound seniors to offer support and companionship to those who are alone.
Volunteers visit one day a week for a minimum of one hour.
Training is on an individual basis. The volunteer must be a caring person, a good listener, dependable and empathetic to older adults. Fund Raising Volunteers assist the agency with various fund raisers. The volunteer performs minor household repairs at the agency office, or homes of senior citizens. The volunteer must have knowledge or desire to do minor household repairs and adequate insurance.