Friendly Companion for Elders at Episcopal Homes

Do you enjoy spending time with older adults? Episcopal Homes is seeking compassionate volunteers to serve as one-to-one companions for our residents. As a volunteer, you can read aloud, write letters, play games, share stories, and build meaningful connections through conversation and shared experiences. Reminisce about your lives, families, careers, travels and hobbies and come make a difference in someone's day. You can visit once a week or twice a month on a schedule that works best for you.

Watch our video to learn more: We Got Lucky Video from Episcopal Homes resident

Here are some regularly scheduled activities you can consider or promote to your friends and family. Do you know a student who needs volunteer time for school credit? These are some fun ways to provide some community service:

• Tour guide from Iris Park Commons lobby to other parts of the campus during our Gardens Welcome Center closure
• Pretty Nail Manicures at The Gardens or ECH: You can choose the time for 1-2 hours a week to bring some special one-to-one time to residents who like a new nail color or some light nail filing.
• Exercise Escort: Mondays through Saturday 9:30am-11:30am, you can pick which day of the week works best for you
• Escort a Gardens resident to Terrace Grille every other Thursday 4:30-5pm
• Escort a Gardens resident to IPC activities Mondays 10:30am Crossword Puzzles, Mondays 3pm Jeopardy, Tuesdays 10am Coffee with Chaplain, Fridays 2pm Bingo
• Escort an IPC resident to Bingo at Cafe Seabury 5:30-7:30pm
• Reading the Newspaper aloud to residents: mornings between 9-11am (you can pick the day of the week and one hour time frame)
• Reading the Newspaper aloud to residents at Iris Park Commons on Tuesdays 3:30-4:15pm
• Skip Bo card game co-leader: Wednesdays 2-4pm
• Skip Bo card game leader: Saturday afternoons and you can pick the time
• Phase 10 card game leader: you can pick the day of the week and two-hour time frame that works best for you
• Book Club co-leader: Wednesdays 3-5pm
• Monthly Birthday party on Fridays 12:30-3pm, decorating, gathering residents, serving case and ice cream, music entertainment included
• ​One-to-one visits with male residents, you can choose the weekly or bi-monthly days and times
• One-to-one visits with residents who need help with range of motion stretches in the mornings 10:30-11:30am
• Pet Visitors: Do you have a sweet dog, cat, or rabbit that doesn't mind the ride or lots of petting? If they are current with their rabies vaccine, we would love a visit with residents once a week or once a month or something in between
• Shopping assistant as needed: meet resident at the bank, cell phone store and help them with their shopping or customer service errand
• Low-vision residents group meeting escort: 1st Monday of the month 2:30-4:30pm
• Resident Directory Creator/Editor: interview residents at our independent living buildings, write their bio, take their photos and create/update the directories
• Financial Health Presenter: Create a presentation about budgeting, stretching your dollars and present it to our independent living residents
• Water indoor plants and help with accessible gardening projects
• Bi or Multi-lingual volunteer to connect with residents with cultural backgrounds from Cambodia, Vietnam, China; lead activities or do one-to-one visits or reminiscing projects