Benefits of volunteering for college students - Enhanced career prospects

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Is volunteering good for college students? While volunteering does require time and effort, the benefits often outweigh the drawbacks. Volunteering can enrich your college experience, provide valuable skills and connections, and contribute positively to your future career prospects. Therefore, it is generally not considered a waste of time. It’s no secret that helping others and contributing to one’s community through positive, impactful action makes people feel good. For college students, spending some time volunteering can be especially beneficial in a variety of ways.

Serving others reaps many benefits spanning a student's health, community, and even career prospects. As you make new connections and learn skills to advance your career, you will feel happier and healthier because you are strengthening ties to the community and broadening your support network.

Become a hospice volunteer

As one of the nation’s largest hospice providers, Enhabit is focused on providing dignity and comfort to patients at the end of life. Hospice is more than just symptom and pain management; it is a philosophy of care designed to treat every physical, spiritual and emotional need of a patient and their loved ones.

One of the ways we provide comprehensive care is through our hospice volunteers. Medicare requires volunteers to be part of the hospice care team with the goal of offering specialized skills and support outside of the clinical team. Volunteers ensure that the patient and family’s needs are met through companionship, assisting with everyday tasks, and providing respite time to a patient’s caregivers.

If you want to make an impact and feel a calling to connect with others, we encourage you to join our team of compassionate volunteers today!

Volunteer requirements

• Be at least 14 years old
• Experienced no significant personal loss in the past year
• Complete a criminal background check (paid for by Enhabit)
• Complete a tuberculosis test (paid for by Enhabit)
• Complete an eight-hour orientation
• Live within 60 miles of the Enhabit office

Enhabit is also looking for volunteers with specialized skills-see below for details

Veteran volunteers provide specialized support and compassion to other veterans at the end of life.

Bereavement volunteers are trained to provide ongoing check-in calls with family members up to 13 months after the loss of a patient.

Volunteers and their therapy dogs provide emotional support for patients through our "Paws for Comfort" program.

Looking to make a difference in the lives of others? Please contact Enhabit today to learn more!!