What kinds of roles are available for the teen volunteers to play?
A large percent of teens would be actively seeing patients or families and therefore are involved in some kind of direct service. The remaining percent are doing special events, office work and fund raising kinds of things. Some of the teens do both kinds of activities — see patients but also work in an office, do a fashion show, or whatever. Most volunteers are seeing patients and families in the home setting, most of the time to support children in those homes. (I.e.: siblings) We don’t really have teens going into patients homes and providing respite for a patient while the caregiver goes out, like the adults often do. We never have teens transporting patients and families. Due to auto liability restrictions, volunteers have to be 18 years old to transport patients. However, may be asked to run errands for our families. For a first visit, the volunteer coordinator or an experienced adult volunteer accompanies the teen volunteer. This adult helps set the tone and establish what is ex
