Our mission | A home providing peace, comfort and support to men and women in the last weeks or days of their lives. |
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Caring House
Ways to help |
FundraisingOrganize and carry out funding drives; obtain gift cards from local businesses; obtain in-kind donations of supplies. Assist with fundraising and other events, secure prizes for auctions, staff events, volunteer recognition.Comfort & Support (Credentialed)Read to, talk with and sit with residents. Offer comfort and support to residents, families, staff and volunteers; pastoral, spiritual care.Home Sweet HomeKitchen, cleaning and caregiving supplies, housekeeping, shopping, pantry, reception, laundry.Caregiver AssistanceSupport our Caregivers as they care for our residents. Includes helping with meal preparation, feeding, medications, turning, repositioning, changing, housekeeping, etc. Covering Caregiver 30-minute lunch breaks. Assisting in new resident admissions. Experience as a hands-on caregiver or in the medical field is a plus.Administration VolunteerAssist Caring house as part of the administration team. Tasks include assisting with mailings, contacts, Salesforce, database, hours tracking, accounting, budgeting, organizing the office, and more.Remember the Life VolunteerCreate an article for our website on a resident’s life, not illness, from info provided by the resident and loved ones (with permission).Outreach VolunteerRefine our message. Evolve our community education program. Outreach to community and potential residents; presentations; Antique Faire, Farmers Market, other events.GardeningLandscape beautification and maintenance; hands-on and/or organizing visiting teams.Holistic TherapiesHealing Touch, Reiki, Music, Pet and other complementary therapies to support our residents and their families, and/or our staff and our volunteers.Fix-It VolunteerHouse and systems preventive maintenance and repair.Visitation VolunteerRead to, talk with and sit with residents. Send sympathy cards to loved ones. |
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How you help | Volunteers will continue to be key to the success of Caring House. We will strive to match each volunteer’s interests and skills with a Caring House need, so the volunteer assignment benefits both the volunteer and the work of Caring House. |
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About us | Imagine a place of peace, a home to spend last days surrounded by love and support. Imagine a place where family members and friends are freed from care duties and get to spend their energy supporting and connecting with their loved one—and with each other. Caring House is that place. |
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