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12 people are interested
Friendly Visitor Knitting Buddy
ORGANIZATION: Heights and Hills
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12 people are interested
Do you love to knit or crochet and enjoy getting to know people? Especially your older friends and neighbors? Are you looking for a meaningful activity in your community?
Female Friendly Visiting volunteers who love to knit and/or crochet are needed to visit with older homebound women for an hour or two a week. Socialize and knit/crochet together in Fort Greene and Prospect Heights. Must have week day availability, preferably on Mondays and/or Fridays.
Join a vibrant group of local volunteers who provide companionship and support to homebound older adults in their own Brooklyn neighborhoods through weekly social visits, and/or assistance with small but meaningful errands and household projects. Become a Friendly Visitor today!
Heights and Hills Friendly Visiting Program introduces volunteers and isolated elderly neighbors to each other for companionship and support. Volunteers visit with his/her friend once a week at a mutually convenient time. Friendly Visits can take place on the week-ends and in the evenings as well as the daytime during the week. Volunteers provide companionship and assistance with very light household tasks such as helping someone who is visually impaired sort their mail. Volunteers and clients go for walks, play cards, cook together, chat about music, art, sports, theater, movies, TV shows - it really depends on the two people involved! to chat, read together, share interests, etc.
We believe that this special volunteer opportunity will enrich your life in ways that you may have never imagined, and will brighten the life of one other person: an isolated elderly neighbor.
For more information or to become a Friendly Visiting volunteer please contact the Volunteer Program at (718) 596-8789 or email us at volunteer@heightsandhills.org
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About Heights and Hills
Location:
81 Willoughby Street, Suite 302, Brooklyn, NY 11201, US
Mission Statement
Our mission statement is guided by the following beliefs: older adults are assets to their communities. Older adults' skills, experience, and wisdom enhance our civic organizations and institutions as well as individual lives. Further, older adults are entitled to live as independently as possible, with dignity and personal choice. In support of our mission, Heights and Hills operates three programs for older adults and their families: Case management for older adults, Caregiver support to family members, friends or neighbors who aid loved ones, and the Volunteer team who recruits appropriate volunteers to perform one or two of these services: the friendly visiting program, a volunteer becomes a companion to a senior and visits every week for an hour's time. Special Project volunteers aid in a variety of areas, this can be a grocery trip on behalf of a client, delivering birthday flowers or a much-needed wheelchair, this is a flexible opportunity.
Description
Heights and Hills is a large social service case management agency located in downtown Brooklyn, New York. We serve approximately 19 neighborhoods in Brooklyn which includes aiding 800+ seniors a month so that they live safely and autonomously in their homes. We believe older adults are assets to their communities. Furthermore, Older adults' skills, experience, and wisdom enhance our civic organizations and institutions as well as individual lives; and older adults are an economic asset to communities.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Prospect Heights and Fort GreeneBrooklyn, NY 11205
DATE POSTED
January 2, 2019
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 1 to 2 hours a week
- Must be avalble on either Mondays or Fridays