Opportunities From: YoloCares

We have a 76 year old, chair/bed-bound, female hospice patient located at home in Woodland. Patient is alert, but can experience some confusion. Family is requesting a volunteer for caregiver relief. Note that there are guns in the home, but they are safely locked up.

Opportunity to be used to track hours spent attending volunteer support group meetings and educational meetings. 

Overview:

The Volunteer Team Lead for Support Group Meetings plays a crucial role in fostering a supportive and welcoming environment for individuals attending our support groups. This position involves organizing, leading, and overseeing the smooth operation of group meetings, ensuring that participants feel heard, valued, and supported.

We invite dedicated and passionate individuals who are eager to make a meaningful impact to respond to this opportunity. If you believe you have valuable skills and insights to contribute to leading our support group meetings, we encourage you to contact our volunteer manager. Our mission is to empower our volunteers to develop their leadership abilities, share knowledge, and grow collectively within our team.

Key Responsibilities:
- Meeting Facilitation: Lead and facilitate support group meetings, ensuring a structured and positive experience for all attendees.
- Record Keeping: Maintain accurate records of meeting attendance, topics discussed, and any follow-up actions required.
- Feedback Collection: Gather feedback from participants to continuously improve the support group experience.

Qualifications:
- Experience: Prior experience in group facilitation, counseling, or a related field is preferred.
- Leadership Skills: Strong leadership and organizational abilities with the capacity to inspire and manage a volunteer team.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Empathy: High level of empathy, patience, and understanding towards individuals facing various challenges.
- Problem-Solving: Effective problem-solving skills with the ability to handle sensitive situations tactfully.
- Commitment: A genuine commitment to the mission and values of YoloCares.

We have a 68 year old male palliative patient residing in his home in Dixon, diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Patient is alert and oriented and struggles with shortness of breath. He previously worked as a truck driver. Patient has two dogs in the home. Searching for a volunteer to provide socialization.

We have a 71yo woman living at home with protein calorie malnutrition who caregiver (daughter) is requesting a female volunteer for companionship, emotional support,caregiver relief, and shopping/errands. Patient lived with dogs in the home.

Misc. Client Support for one-time opportunities or filling in client support.

This opportunity is ideal for seasoned volunteers looking to share their experience and support new volunteers. By offering mentorship during first visits, you’ll play a key role in helping new volunteers navigate their responsibilities, build confidence, and establish meaningful connections with hospice patients and their families. Your guidance will help create a welcoming and supportive environment, ensuring a smooth transition for new team members while enriching the care provided by our volunteer team.

Hello team :)

We are excited to announce an opportunity to join the YoloCares team in a vital role as a Front Desk Administrative Assistant. This position is essential to ensuring that we fulfill our mission to serve every patient, every family, every time.

About the Role: As a Front Desk Administrative Assistant, you will be the first point of contact for visitors, patients, and families. Your warm welcome and efficient handling of inquiries will set the tone for their experience with YoloCares. You will be involved in a variety of tasks, including answering phone calls, forwarding messages, and providing general administrative support.

Key Responsibilities:

Shift Information:

Why is this role important? Our organization is experiencing unprecedented growth with a record high patient census. While we celebrate this growth, we also need additional support across various departments. Your volunteer efforts will be instrumental in helping us manage this increased demand and maintain the high quality of care and service we pride ourselves on. Volunteering at YoloCares means being a part of a dedicated team that makes a real difference in the lives of those we serve, as well as our team as a whole.

Skills and Qualifications:

Join Us on the Front Lines: This role is more than just administrative support; it's about being a part of the front lines of care at YoloCares. Your efforts will directly impact the quality of service we provide to our community.

If you are interested in this rewarding volunteer opportunity, please respond to this opportunity and email Dee with your availability: Arasilau@YoloCares.org

Opportunity to help with administrative tasks such as data entry, filing, and other assigned tasks for our adult day program at Galileo Place Adult Day Care Center. Please note that you will have to undergo another background check from the state department of justice in order to volunteer at ADP.

Job Title: General - Administrative Support

Purpose: Filling needs on a general level of a multitude of administrative tasks.
Location:  YoloCares
Key Responsibilities: Filling needs on a general level of a multitude of administrative tasks.
The Length of Appointment: 1-2 hours
Time Commitment: N/A 
Qualifications: Current volunteer
Support: Make sure to email your volunteer manager with any additional questions you have about specific tasks.

Substitute or Assistant Group/Event Facilitation

Help our team capture the responses collected by the caregivers we serve at one of the many retreats we offer. You will simply be coding responses into a smartsheet, using our laptop at the offices, an hour per event.

Scheduling to be handled by the Center for Loss and Hope's (CLH) staff, during office hours, the week after our retreats. The CLH staff will be there to help you know what to do.

An hour of your assistance is needed, the week of:

March 20th

May 8th

July 17th

September 18th

November 6th

Volunteers are needed to assist the Center for Loss & Hope on an ongoing basis, at the end of every month, to assemble and post their Grief Mailers to be sent out to clients.

The day of the week and Time are flexible depending on your schedule and that of the Center for Loss & Hope. 

Work is done onsite at the YoloCares' offices and occurs during regular operating hours, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm.

Shifts are estimated to be 2-4 hours, 1 day a week, every month.

Capacity for up to two volunteers to assist.

Help our Bereavement Department and our patients' loved ones by assisting in this essential service of YoloCares.

Volunteer Opportunity:
We are actively seeking talented musicians to volunteer their time and skills. If you can play an instrument and have a passion for brightening someone's day through music, we want to hear from you! We believe that the soothing power of music can make a significant difference in the healing journey of individuals facing health challenges.

Responsibilities:
- Perform live music for patients in various facilities based on marketing team needs.
- Collaborate with our marketing team
- Participate in occasional facility/marketing events 

Qualifications:
- Proficient in playing a musical instrument.
- Passionate about using music for healing and uplifting spirits.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

This opportunity is to be used when helping our marketing team with the following tasks:


- Creating marketing folders

- Help put together marketing baskets

- Other marketing tasks outside of attending/participating facility events

Please reach out to Dee for more information regarding ways you can help our community liaisons and our marketing team.

Volunteers are needed to assist the Center for Loss & Hope on an ongoing basis with Administrative Help. 

The day of the week and time are flexible depending on your schedule and that of the Center for Loss & Hope. 

Work is done onsite at the YoloCares' offices and occurs during regular operating hours, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm.

Shifts are estimated to be 2-4 hours, 1 day a week, every week.

Capacity for up to two volunteers to assist on an ongoing basis working directly with CLH staff.

Help our patients' loved ones by assisting in this essential service of YoloCares.