FRIENDLY
VISITOR VOLUNTEER
DESCRIPTION:
- Friendly Visitor volunteers will share one hour a week with their CSS friend. Time spent together is
- intended to provide companionship, conversation, and encouragement for the older individual.
- Each relationship will develop uniquely and you will find the best way to share your time. The
- volunteer term of commitment is one year, allowing time for a friendship to grow and develop.
-
After
receiving your "match", the CSS friend, you may arrange
your first visit.
DATE
AND TIMES NEEDED:
One
hour – weekly.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
1.
Attend Orientation and receive biographical information about your
CSS Friend.
2. Arrange
a convenient time for your first visit.
3. Attend
Training sessions as scheduled.
4.
Visit your CSS friend on a weekly basis on a schedule designed to
accommodate both participants.
5.
Notify CSS friend when you will not be able to meet at the
pre-arranged time. And expect the same from your friend. You can
encourage this by stating at the close of each visit when you will be
calling or coming to visit and ask if the time is still convenient.
6.
Record the date, time spent and comments about activities or
conversation at each visit on the Monthly Report Form. Your time as a
volunteer is important to us, and so is the information you bring us
about
the client and their general mood and well-being. Certainly bring
any concerns or problems to the attention of the Volunteer Coordinator.
