Volunteer Opportunities
You can make a difference and become part of a rewarding experience through the Volunteer Program of Jewish Family Service. Volunteers perform important tasks in fulfilling the agency's mission of service to the community. The agency provides training and ongoing support for all of its volunteers.
The following volunteer opportunities include:
- Jewish Big Friends/Little Friends - be a positive role model and mentor to a Little Friend.
- Bikur Cholim - visiting the sick.
- Agency Support - assisting the agency with special projects.
- Friendly Visiting & Senior Advocacy- visitations to individuals in-home or in facilities. Immediate needs in La Habra, Anaheim Hills, Fullerton and Laguna Niguel. Spend an hour a week with someone who is isolated and alone. Please help!
- Project Caring - group visitations and programming of Jewish content in retirement and skilled nursing facilities.
- Mitzvah Projects - community service projects for adults, teenagers, especially for bar and bat mitzvah and high school youth.
- Hospice/Bereavement - provide comfort and support to the Jewish terminally ill and their families. Training provided by Jewish Family Service and Vitas Healthcare.
- Board Affiliated Volunteers- Work along side the board of directors on various committees and assist with general tasks.
- Employer/Job Bank Associate/Intern - Identify Jewish business people in the community for the purpose of creating a job bank for JFS clients.
- Marketing Associate/Intern - Assist in creating flyers/brochures and establishing contacts for the purpose of describing agency services and special events to the community..
WANTED: BIG FRIENDS AND LITTLE FRIENDS
Be a friend...lend a hand...you can make a positive difference in the life of a Little Friend through the Jewish Big Friends/Little Friends program.
BE A MENTOR & TUTOR
JFS is seeking tutors to provide academic assistance to children who are struggling in school. This program would be held at JFS in Irvine and would serve children in 6-8th grade.
For more information on volunteer opportunities please call: Marcia Marcinko, Director of Volunteers, 949-435-3460 or 714- 445-4950 - marcia@jfsoc.org