Are you a good listener? Volunteers are needed to help facilitate our peer support group. Volunteers are skillfully prepared through our 15-hour facilitator training where they learn communication skills like Reflective Listening and participate in creative activities to connect and share with each other in training. They are asked to make a commitment for one…
These volunteers will help share the news about the Children’s Grief Center by distributing information and brochure packets to local businesses, churches, and organizations. Also by presenting information at our CBC booth at area events throughout the year.
Do you dance, have theater experience, want to share your love for art, sewing, crafts, or music? We could use your talents in setting up and creating packets to be used for grief group activities, collaborate and brainstorm ideas to use in group for creative crafts, games, making samples, setting up supply lists, etc.
Office volunteers would help with organizing, filing, labeling, copying, assembling packets and outreach materials, as well as providing general assistance to the administrative and program staff.
The JFS Legal Referral Service was created to help our clients in these tough economic times to obtain legal consultation and possible representation. We are looking for lawyers who are willing to accept at least one pro bono client per year to help with their legal issues including: family law and elder law, debt resolution/bankruptcy,…
Help prepare and deliver kosher meals to older adults. This program is organized by the National Council of Jewish Women.
You’ll provide companionship and support for a homebound older adult with weekly or biweekly visits, either at the client’s home or destination such as lunch, shopping or other activities. Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network provides consolation and assistance to chronic and terminally ill clients and their families. We partner with them by providing volunteers who…
The healthy cooking classes for the children and their families is a chance for the children to learn healthy cooking habits. Volunteers would be needed to assist in set up and cleanup of cooking class, helping the families cook their meal, and positively encouraging them to participate. These volunteers help our families to learn healthy…
While many of our volunteers are out in the community giving back, we also rely on them to work in our office. Administrative volunteers work with Jewish Family Service staff across a variety of departments, helping with clerical work, data entry or any number of other projects that make it possible for us to continue…
Since 2013, the team of certified health care navigators at Jewish Family Service has helped more than 18,000 community members explore and purchase insurance on the health care marketplace through the Affordable Care Act. That’s in addition to signing up countless more for Michigan’s expanded Medicaid program. Volunteers are needed during open enrollment (November through…