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Ethos is a nonprofit dedicated to helping the elderly and disabled remain at home for as long as possible while promoting dignity, independence, and well-being.
Ethos is looking for volunteers for our Ombudsman program!
Advocate for residents in long-term care facilities/residential care facilities, resolve complaints, monitor Federal & State laws regarding residents’ rights. Vehicle is essential.
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Excellent opportunity to promote the independence of an elder in your community by assisting with the routine tasks of money management. Make home visits in the Boston area with a time commitment of approximately 1-4 hours/month. Money Managers make a crucial difference by helping seniors avoid eviction, financial exploitation, and unnecessary institutionalization.
For more information contact Meg more
RSVP/Senior Service Corps is a program of Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands. We partner with over 95 organizations (Service Partners) on Cape Cod serving local unmet needs. One unmet need on Cape Cod is keeping elders in their home as long as possible by offering transportation resources, friendly visiting, hospice, meal delivery, and many other volunteer activities. more
The Department of Correction offers its inmates the opportunity to take part in educational, treatment and reintegration programs. They include mental health, educational, employment, religious and substance abuse programs. Presently, the Department is seeking to secure volunteers to facilitate job skill related workshop modules on topics including resume writing, the application process, interview tec more
Garden Volunteers to assist offenders to learn the basics of gardening needed for work outside the institution: soil types and preparation, garden layouts, seed propagation and raising healthy seedlings, transplanting, watering and sunlight requirements of different types of flowers and plants (and compatible planting); shrubs and their light, space and planting needs; uses of perennials and annuals an more
The Massachusetts Department of Correction provides opportunities for participation in effective programming to promote the successful re-entry of offenders back into communities. The Department is committed to providing offenders with Limited English Proficiency meaningful access to the available programs and services. Presently seventeen percent of the offender population reports a primary language o more
The Department of Correction offers its inmates the opportunity to take part in educational, treatment and reintegration programs. They include mental health, educational, employment, religious and substance abuse programs. Presently, the Department is seeking to secure volunteers to facilitate seeking parenting mentor volunteers to be trained to facilitate a curriculum that is designed to assist incar more
The Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) is seeking to expand its successful volunteer facilitated, evidence-based, cognitive skill workshop program. Over the past 24 months volunteers have facilitated 2hr/2session workshops with over 2000 offenders earning completion certificates. The Department is interested to expand the cadre of volunteers to meet the increasing demand for the successful wo more
The Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) is seeking to expand its successful volunteer facilitated, evidence-based, cognitive skill workshop program. The Department is interested to train a second cadre of volunteers to meet the demand for the courses. The training will instruct participants on how to facilitate a Cognitive Skills workshop as well as provide a thorough understanding of the grou more
The Horticulture Program at South Middlesex Correctional Center is embarking on a new adventure and is seeking citizen volunteers to join the effort. The instructor will be using the Massachusetts Horticulture Certification Study Manual as a reference and a guide to prepare interested offenders for the certification exam given two times a year.
South Middlesex Correctional Center (SMCC) is a two hundr more
The Massachusetts Department of Correction is seeking volunteers to serve as mentors in various security level facilities. All volunteers are welcome; however, currently the volunteer coordinator is seeking mentors to facilitate the common spiritual practices and philosophies of all religious traditions including: Buddhism, The Church of Christ, Scientist,Greek Orthodox,The International Society for Kr more
Volunteers visit an assigned nursing or rest home once a week. They meet with residents and their families to educate them about their rights, and to advocate for them if those rights are violated. They evaluate the quality of care and the environment for the residents.
"Ombudsman" is Swedish for "citizen advocate".
This program is part of the MA State Ombudsman Office. more
Volunteers assist home bound elders who are having trouble managing their day to day finances. They visit on a monthly basis to organize and pay bills, develop a budget, balance checkbooks, and reconcile bank statements. Clients maintain the right to sign their own checks. The Program Manager meets with the client and the volunteer bill payer to explain how the program works.
The Money Management Pr more
The FRIENDLY VISITOR Program at South Shore Elder Services provides socialization and companionship through weekly 1-2 hour visits to homebound elders. The Friendly Visitor helps an elder maintain independent living and outside contact. We strive to make a compatible match between the volunteer and the client. Clinical case managers screen potential elder clients before entering the program. Friendl more
As one of our basic literacy students said, "Without the help of Literacy Volunteers I know where I'd be -- sitting on the couch staring at a brick wall. Literacy Volunteers has given me the tools to break through that barrier, and for that I thank them."
LVM volunteers help adults acquire the literacy and English language skills that empower them to realize their goals. By improving their basic skil more
New Vision Organization, Inc. is a non-profit organization, assisting the incarcerated men, women and youth, with legal, educational and supportive aftercare resources, in addition to others supportive services. Our goal is to ensure the stability,functioning ability and productivity of the long-term, soon to be released and formerly incarcerated men, women and youth, which will subsequently decrease c more
We receive letters from prisoners’ nationwide requesting Supportive aftercare services or legal,educational correspondence courses, pen pals or other. NVO volunteers provides them via extensive research, information pertaining to legal, housing, employment, education and or counseling resources in the area of their location. We also provide, assistance with resume writing and computer training. more
New Vision Organization, Inc. is a non-profit organization consisting of volunteer’s working together to provide support and resources to the current, former and soon to be released incarcerated men, women and youth, in addition to working family members.
We network with other advocates, community members, human service agencies, ministries, groups and individuals across the country to bring about po more
Grant Writers needed in order to obtain funding for New Vision Organization,Inc. a Grassroots non-profit organization working to provide and achieve legal, educational and aftercare support and resources to the long-term and soon to be released, incarcerated men, women and youth more
Imagine living alone and unable to get out every week to buy your essential groceries, what that feels like to be running out of food because you can't get to the store. Food shopping is one of those things many of us take for granted. It's a chore we don't always want to do, but we can get what we need one way or another because we have the mobility and family members who can help.
Many people don't more
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