Friendly Visitors Needed: 1 hour per week will make senior's day

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Be a hero to a homebound senior!!! If you have one hour a week to spare we want to meet you! The CCNS Southwest Queens Friendly Visiting Program carefully matches volunteers with a senior who has similar interests. Friendly Visiting Volunteers visit their senior once a week at a mutually agreeable time. The volunteer visitor provides weekly support through visiting, sharing and other activities as identified by the senior. Over time, meaningful relationships develop, which both parties find rewarding. Our Friendly Visiting volunteers tell us that, in the process, their lives have changed as well. The program provides seniors with visits in their own homes; this helps them maintain social contact. The goal of the program are to improve the health and well-being of seniors who are homebound through regular visits to the client’s home to encourage active and independent living.

We serve the neighborhoods of: Hollis, Kew Gardens, St. Albans, Woodhaven, Jamaica, Ozone Park, South Jamaica, South Ozone Park, Wakefield, Howard Beach, Richmond Hill, Hamilton Beach and Springfield Gardens.

If you are interested in volunteering or want to learn more about the program please contact Stephanie Mitchell at 718-217-0126 .

**There is great flexibility in the days and time a volunteer choses to donate their time to this program.