Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities

Individual and Family Support

• Direct Care
• Healing Hearts Family Bereavement Program

Non-Direct Support

• Office Volunteers
• Gardening Volunteers
• Special Events Volunteers
• Community Outreach Volunteers
• Quilting Volunteers
• Youth for Hospice Volunteers

Individual and Family Support

Direct Care: Volunteers provide companionship as well as emotional and practical support to patients and their families. Volunteers receive extensive training for this work. Once this initial training is completed and volunteers have one year of service as Direct Care Volunteers, they may receive additional training in:

• Vigil Care: These volunteers attend patients who are actively dying, offering emotional support to those approaching death and their families.
• Spiritual Care: These volunteers work with our chaplains in supporting and offering comfort to those seeking to understand the meaning of this stage of life.
• Bereavement: Bereavement volunteers may make phone calls and/or visits to bereaved individuals and families in the community to offer support as they adjust to the loss of a loved one.
• Companion Calling: Callers make supportive phone calls to patients and family members in between visits from nurses, social workers, home health aides, clergy, and volunteers.

Healing Hearts Family Bereavement Program: Volunteers are trained in children’s grief and group process to provide support to children and their families who have lost a loved one. Healing Hearts volunteers co-facilitate ongoing groups alongside professional staff.

Non-Direct Support

Many individuals wish to volunteer for UHR but may not wish to be a direct care volunteer. There are many ways that you can contribute.  Some of them are:

Office Volunteers: Provide support to the hospice staff in our offices. They may assist us in answering phones, entering data, filing, faxing, assembling information packets, completing mailings, and maintaining our library, among other administrative tasks.

Gardening Volunteers: Those with a love and knowledge of gardening help to expand and maintain our on-site memorial gardens.

Special Events Volunteers: Assist our fundraising team in planning and implementing events that raise funds and community awareness of our hospice programs.

Community Outreach Volunteers: Attend health fairs and community events representing United Hospice of Rockland. Training is provided.

Quilting Volunteers: We are seeking experienced quilters to help us to conduct a special project. For further information contact Noell Goldberg or Amy Stern.

Youth for Hospice Volunteers: Join our growing group of high school teens who help out in the office and plan special events such as the annual danceathon, haircutathon and carwash.

If you have a talent or skill as a carpenter, a photographer, a hairstylist or almost any other trade, we need you! Please call us.