Friendly Shoppers

Friendly Shoppers are volunteers who help you with your shopping. They do this by either going shopping for you or accompanying you to the store. Volunteers who participate in this program must complete an application, provide references, and take part in a training program preparing them to appropriately provide services to you.

Friendly Visitors

Friendly Visitors are volunteers who visit with you in your home each week. Like the Friendly Shoppers, they too must apply to participate in this program, provide us with references, and undergo a training program that prepares them for helping you. There are no specific duties assigned to Friendly Visitors, unlike the Friendly Shopper who is specifically available to help with shopping, Friendly Visitors are available to simply visit with you. You may choose to simply talk to them during visits, or you may play games with them, watch TV, or anything else that makes their companionship to you more meaningful.

Birthday Cheer

Volunteers help to bring a smile to homebound seniors by delivering balloons or other small gifts for their birthdays.

Social Activities
The Social Services staff visits the elderly housing sites at various times throughout the year to facilitate social activities and opportunities for interaction with residents. These activities consist of games and parties and include gifts prepared by various volunteers.

Carrier Alert
Carrier Alert is a program that Social Services staff helps to put in place for residents who live alone and may not have frequent outside contacts. If a person fails to take their mail in, someone they have chosen will be notified to check on them.

Telephone Reassurance

The Telephone Reassurance program is a program intended to provide a means of checking on your well being on a regular basis. With your permission, we make arrangements with a volunteer to call you on a regular basis at agreed upon times and days. The purpose of his or her call is to have you answer the phone and let the caller know that you are all right. If you do not answer the phone, the volunteer will alert whomever you have designated that there was no response to the call. The designated person is then responsible for checking on you as soon as possible.

Home Helpers

We maintain a list of people in the community who have volunteered to help people like you with ordinary tasks that you might not be able to do. These "Home Helpers" are available to change light bulbs, put new batteries in smoke detectors, and a variety of other small chores which you may not be able to perform. They are not intended to perform services for which you would ordinarily pay a professional to do.