- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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67 people are interested
Bereavement Hospice Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Rochester Regional Health Hospice Care
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
67 people are interested
Working with bereaved families is often a life-giving experience.
Grief can be a very painful journey- a road that many people neither expected nor chose to be on. Working with the bereaved is often as simple and as important as affirming people’s experiences and emotions and helping them to understand something about the path of grief and the healing process they are moving through.
Our work involves walking with people for a while in their grief journey through mailings about grief, home visits and phone calls.
More than nine years ago, we began a pilot volunteer program called the Bereavement Care Team to help us to reach more families. These simple phone calls often make an appreciable difference in the lives of these family members. You don’t have to travel anywhere to provide this support and comfort: you can make these calls from your home at a time that is convenient for you. You decide how many calls you make in a given month. Members of the Bereavement Care Team receive a referral form that assesses and describes some of the needs of the person they are calling. After the call, we ask that you complete a Bereavement Contact form which you can either drop off or mail in postage paid envelopes.
The Bereavement Care Team also meets on the second Friday of each month. This meeting non-mandatory and we learn a little more about the grief process, talk about the phone calls we have made and we ALWAYS have bagels and juice or an appropriate substitute. Although these meetings are optional, some of our volunteers attend them regularly because they have come to value the opportunity to share their experiences of and feelings about their contacts. In sharing these stories, we all continue to discover more about grief and grievers - and ourselves.
More opportunities with Rochester Regional Health Hospice Care
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Rochester Regional Health Hospice Care
Location:
330 Monroe Ave, Rochester, NY 14607, US
Mission Statement
Rochester Regional Health Hospice Care is... -To make effective healthcare and support services available to individuals and families who need healing at any stage of life or level of wellness. -To contribute to improving health status and quality of life in communities where those individuals/families reside. -To apply its expertise as an enterprise to develop and introduce innovative healthcare and related services, to enhance effective delivery of such services, and to reduce the costs of providing those services. -In pursuit of this mission, Rochester Regional Health Hospice Care will deliver compassionate, personalized care to adults and children who are ill, injured, dying or grieving. Rochester Regional Health Hospice Care will also provide education that promotes healing, wellness and holistic care for children and adults.
Description
Hospice care is specialized end-of-life care that gives patients and families the chance to spend time together with comfort and dignity, receiving services focused on sustaining quality of life. Rochester Regional Health Hospice Care (formerly Lifetime Care) provides services to minimize pain and manage the symptoms of advanced, life-threatening illness. In addition to the patient’s well-being, our hospice services also address the spiritual, emotional, and psychological concerns of patients and their families.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
June 26, 2020
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Bereavement volunteers set their own schedules