The mission of RSVP is to provide diverse volunteer opportunities for people over 55 years of age. RSVP supports older Americans who want to stay active and make a difference in their communities. There are many varied and wonderful positions available in the Family Services League at its Huntington, Riverhead, and Bay Shore locations. Some of these include tutoring, computer literacy, translation, volunteering in the Ombudsman Program, and helping children as preschool aides.
The need for volunteers is especially great in the East End of Long Island. Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson needs volunteers to help out at the gift shop and at its thrift store. Suffolk's Visiting Nursing Service & needs compassionate and caring volunteers to visit hospice patients in their homes to provide caregivers with much needed companionship and rest. The Long Island State Veterans Home, in Stony Brook, offers many opportunities for volunteers, such as recreational assistants, who help with individual recreational therapy, volunteer trips, and pay special attention to Reflection Unit residents who suffer from different forms of dementia.
Throughout Connecticut, volunteers participate in a day of free training and then teach family fishing courses in their hometowns. Volunteer opportunities in Riverhead, New York, range from collecting wild seeds, identifying plants, propagating plants, cleaning seeds, managing databases, mailing assistance, and participating in the native plant symposium and the annual native plant sale in June. Melville Good Shepherd Hospice is looking for a volunteer to help in the office with archiving and data entry. The “Respite Care Beyond Reproach” program at Harmony House, in Kings Park, needs caring and compassionate volunteers to accompany and share their passion for music, exercise or just good humor with older people who receive care in a small family environment.
The LI Envirothon is an annual outdoor environmental studies competition for high school students from Nassau and Suffolk counties. For more than 40 years, the Suffolk County Office on Aging has administered federal, state, and county programs for people 60 and older. In addition, the Citizen Corps Program expands the resources and materials available to states and local communities by partnering with programs and organizations that offer resources for public education, outreach, and training; represent volunteers interested in helping to make their community safer; or offer volunteer service opportunities to support first responders, disaster relief activities, and community safety efforts. Siena Nursing's Catalina Rehabilitation Center & needs a volunteer to help with its administrative tasks.
CERT members will also be involved in educating Suffolk County residents about emergency preparedness. Join this wonderful program and rebuild computers to give them to low-income families and individuals in Nassau and Suffolk counties. All volunteers must attend free training on water quality monitoring and monitoring techniques in order to participate in waterlogging. This wonderful organization, Rebuilding Together Long Island, provides services throughout Suffolk County.
Volunteers from Suffolk and Nassau counties are needed to analyze waterways on a regular basis to monitor baseline data.
