Advocate for residents in long-term care facilities and helps to resolve their complaints and concerns.
Visit an elder in their own home to provide companionship, share interests, and relieve loneliness.
Make telephone calls to elders to check on their well-being and relieve loneliness.
Ethos holds over 20 daily, weekly, and monthly community cafes where local seniors can drop in for a free nutritious meal and some socialization. Volunteers are needed to help set up, serve meals, socialize with seniors, and clean up after the meals.
Accompany an elder to and from medical appointments. Medical escorts volunteer on an on-call basis.
Shopping escorts help shop with an elder and provide companionship during the shopping trip. After returning home escorts also assist with storing items.
Assist an elderly or disabled person with managing their finance, by developing a budget, balancing their checkbooks and helping with check writing.
AP ambassadors raise awareness about Aaron’s Presents through presentations and recruitment or fundraising events. Ambassadors are past participants who speak about their completed project and overall experience and interact with other adults and kids in a way that positively reflects the values and mission of AP.
We are also always looking for support in the following areas: administrative (database, mailings, organization), communications, graphic design of marketing materials, social media, and website.
Project mentors work directly with participants to guide them through carrying out their projects from start to finish. They coordinate with schools, after-school programs, services sites, and families to meet and work with participants on their projects. The goal is to provide a fun, relaxed environment that keeps the participants excited and in the leadership…