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4 people are interested
Respite Buddies needed!
ORGANIZATION: Heights and Hills
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4 people are interested
Are you kind and collaborative by nature and looking for a way to give back that makes a real impact? Become a trusted friend and help alleviate caregiver stress!
Respite Companion volunteers provide companionship to homebound, cognitively and/or physically challenged elderly adults for 4-6 hour blocks to give primary family caregivers (usually partners, spouses, children, or other close family) time to attend to their own needs and to help relieve the stress associated with caregiving.
Respite Companion volunteers will work collaboratively with caregivers and care recipients to become a trusted reliable friend who can provide weekly respite to the caregiver and thoughtful engagement with the care recipient.
Respite Companion volunteers receive training and ongoing support. Respite Companions are NOT home attendants, social workers, case managers, therapists, nurses or maids and may not perform any of the duties commonly associated with these roles.
Respite Companion Volunteer Responsibilities:
- Visit care recipient and provide face-to face companionship, thoughtful engagement and practical support once per week for about 4-6 hours
- Foster and maintain open communication with family caregiver to ensure needs are met
- Call family caregiver to confirm weekly visits and if not able to make scheduled visit
- Complete weekly time sheet documenting visit
- Be available for weekly phone call with Program Coordinator after each of the first 3 visits, then bi-weekly for duration of program
- Report any changes in the care recipient and caregiver or concerns as soon as observed
Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years or older
- Flexible, accessible, mature, compassionate and reliable
- Able to communicate verbally and in writing
- Ability to follow through on commitments
- Willing to learn and follow organizational policies, confidentiality laws and volunteer guidelines
- Willing to accept training, supervision and work with coordinator around client issues
Requirements:
- Minimum of 6 months commitment
- Maintain bi-weekly telephone contact with Respite Companion Volunteer Program Coordinator
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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
Various Brooklyn neighborhoodsBrooklyn, NY 11201
DATE POSTED
September 30, 2019
SKILLS
- Elder care
- People Skills
- Problem Solving
- Relationship Building
- Critical Thinking
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- 4-6 hours per week, must make 6 month committment
- Must be reliable, kind and inspired to be of service