Volunteer Trainer for Care Community Visitors
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An individual or team is needed to train volunteers and create training materials for people that volunteer in care communities - i.e. skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, rehabilitation and group homes. The volunteers may be helping with a worship service, performing music, chatting to care community residents or donating gifts.There are several aspects of this volunteer opportunity - you may choose to do one or many tasks. The main tasks are:1. Create a training curriculum for visitors to care communities2. Create or curate training videos3. Update the current training manual - it requires a serious rewrite to embody current regulations and COVID restrictions.4. Hold workshops for potential visitors.5. If the training materials and courses are high quality, then it may be possible to charge for courses for particular groups - e.g. families of care community residents, school groups, etc.Some of the projects or parts of them may be done by student interns in gerontology, care community administration or public health.
About SpiritCare Ministry to Seniors
For over 30 years we have provided worship services in care communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. We need volunteers who can help with the services by accompanying hymn-singing on a piano, singing, reading scripture and helping hand-out music. We also need volunteers to help with our administration, helping in outreach to volunteers and volunteer management. We serve over 60 care communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and are looking for volunteer pastors who can take a home and provide a communion service once a month there. We served about 1400 residents a month in care communities. We need people who can visit regularly to chat with older adults one-on-one - maybe read a story, share a game, pray with people or share pictures. We also need board members who have a passion for helping older adults and agree with our mission to help raise funds. This is a ministry that families with children can participate in. Children can communicate with elders by sharing their stories, pictures and toys. The ministry also helps children develop public speaking and musical talent by encouraging them to help in the worship services - for example a group of children may sing a song or play music with a guitar. We also have talented musical children who can give recitals of acoustic instruments.
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