Volunteering at CARE
| Would you like to be a volunteer?
If you have a desire to share yourself, your experiences, and your skills with others who really appreciate you, Escapees CARE would like to offer you the opportunity of joining the volunteer teams at the Escapees CARE Center in Livingston, TX. There are two ways to volunteer. One is as a Day Volunteer. If you cannot volunteer for a month or more, but will be staying at the Rainbow's End RV Park, come over and volunteer for a few hours. We have a number of jobs that you can do at your leisure. The other way to volunteer at Escapees CARE is as a Resident Volunteer. You volunteer for a minimum of one month. You will have a site with full hook-ups, three (3) meals per day, seven days a week, and the knowledge that you took a month or two to make many seniors lives brighter. You pay your own electric and propane. You will work a weekly schedule. Depending on the number of volunteer teams on site, you will be scheduled to work 24 hours or more per week. Many of the volunteers return yearly (or more frequently when they are able) for which Escapees CARE is very grateful. This is a testament to how much they enjoy their time here. Every year CARE certifies 80 to 100 volunteers as having provided over 100 hours of volunteer services at Escapees CARE to the President's Volunteer Service Awards recognition program. Qualifying recipients receive: * An official President's Volunteer Service Award lapel pin. * A personalized certificate of achievement, and * A congratulatory letter from the President of the United States What jobs would you do? Volunteers work a rotating schedule. The typical jobs consist of: morning and afternoon shifts in the kitchen, driving resident to appointments, opening and closing the CARE Center building, monitoring the phone at night (this doesn’t mean staying up all night), and some light cleaning. Two evenings each week the volunteers prepare and serve the meal. These are light meals (usually salads, soup & sandwich, etc.) and the staff cooks counsel the volunteers beforehand so the meal goes smoothly. The kitchen shifts typically last 3 – 4 hours. Driving assignments generally are local and require only an hour or two. There are, however, exceptions. That is to be expected. After all, we are here to help our residents. Volunteers work as teams. For couples this allows both team members to be off at the same time. In the case of singles, we pair two singles to form a team. They are then treated as any other team. How much time off do you have? We prefer to have five teams each month. With a 5-team schedule, each week two teams will have two days off (not consecutive) and the others will have one day off. This rotates with the schedule as do the jobs. If we have fewer than 5 teams then each team has 1 day of per week. We understand that some would prefer to work 3 or 4 eight-hour days and then have the rest of the week off. Most, however, prefer the shorter daily hours. The schedule we use presently was developed by volunteers and has worked quite well for the last 3 years. Is there a VOLUNTEER hiding inside you? If there is and it is ready to ESCAPE, call the CARE Volunteer Coordinator at 1-936-327-4256 or e-mail carevc@escapees.com. |
Escapees
CARE, Inc.
155 CARE Center Drive
Livingston, TX 77351
E-mail: careinc@escapees.com
936-327-4256
Fax: 936-327-6428
155 CARE Center Drive
Livingston, TX 77351
E-mail: careinc@escapees.com
936-327-4256
Fax: 936-327-6428