Volunteer Services

Ongoing Opportunities

Serving Older Adults

Activity Leader: Share your talents, interests, and expertise with older adults who are looking for activities, intellectual stimulation and fun. Facilitate a weekly group discussion or lead classes in art, computers, movies or other areas of interest for older adults.

Activity Planner: Help older adult residents plan cultural, social and educational programs to increase their interests and activities. Organize and arrange activities such as craft classes, music performances, film nights, chair exercise class, teas and cooking afternoons. Let creativity be your guide as you meet residents and plan fun and interesting activities.

Readers for the Visually Impaired: Read magazines, books, poetry, or newspapers to older adult clients with visual impairments.

Friendly Visitor: Provide companionship and cheer to an isolated older adult in or out of the home. Visits can be devoted to sitting and chatting, enjoying a cup of tea, playing cards, taking a walk or sharing stories. Friendly visitors also can help with paperwork, errands, grocery shopping or reading. Visit either weekly or every other week for 1 - 2 hours.

Shopping Friend: Be a grocery shopper or run errands for an older homebound adult who can no longer partake in these activities. Volunteers needed on a regular or occasional basis.

Serving People with Exceptional Needs

Habush House Activity Leaders: Plan and lead weekly activities with other volunteers and JFS staff for developmentally disabled adults living at Habush House, an independent-living apartment complex in Glendale.

Sandy Naimon Breakfast Club Buddies: Brighten the lives of adults with chronic mental illness at a weekly group brunch in an eastside restaurant. Led by JFS professional staff, volunteers join in on the conversation and add to topics like sports, movies and current events. Volunteers must be able to tolerate cigarette smoke.

For more information or to sign up, please call Susie Gruenberg, Director of Volunteer Services, at 414-225-1390.