Volunteers

Volunteers are always welcome and needed to help with a variety of exciting programs and servies offered to our residents. Below are opportunities and programs available at our Long Term Care Centre and Millennium Pavilion Seniors Lodge.

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Volunteer Categories
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Working closely with placement agencies such as:

Volunteer Programs
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• Ambassador Program
  Volunteers meet and greet families of residents as well as the general public. They provide information to them and generally welcome guest to to the Long Term Care Centre in a friendly atmosphere

• Fun & Fit / Exercise Class
  Volunteers assist with exercises to help residents maintain their strength and increase independence

• Fundraising Bingos
  These occur in community bingo halls as per the attached schedule. Volunteers have the opportunity to meet people, to socialize, exercise selling skills and are given an excellent meal as well as beverages throughout the bingo

• Bingo program in-house
  Volunteers take residents to the area where the bingo game is being held as well as assist them with watching and marking their cards, and encouraging participation in these programs

• Pastoral Care
  Volunteers provide companionship and assist with the spiritual guidance of residents

• Church Porters
  Volunteers assist wheelchair-bound residents to chapel services (on-site) and return them to their rooms after services (weekend opportunities are available)

• Gardening / Spades & Hoes (Plant Care)
  An opportunity to share knowledge and increase self-esteem with the residents through successful growth and/or maintenance of indoor and outdoor gardens

• Crafts / Baking
  Volunteers encourage creativity and socialization using their own skills, while focussing on the ability of the residents

• Pet Therapy / Challengers
  Volunteers and their pets spend time with the residents to increase sensory stimulation, reminiscence and to provide amusement

• Sing Along
  Residents gather to sing songs familiar to them and in their language

• Mobile Library Therapy
  Volunteers deliver reading material to the residents, in a familiar language, to help encourage independent leisure time

• Community Outings
  Volunteers assist with taking residents on outings, which provides them with a change of environment to stimulate cognition and to increase enjoyment of life

• News and Views
  Volunteers interact with residents to keep them informed of current issues and news, and to encourage them to express their opinions or reminisce

• Live Entertainment
  Voluntary entertainment provides sensory stimulation, increases reminiscence and decreases boredom

• Birthday Party
  Volunteers assist in the celebrations honouring those residents whose birth month it is

• Appointments
  Assist residents on to attend appointments outside the facility

• Computers
  Volunteers assist residents with computers and Internet service

• Porter
  Volunteers porter residents to and from the various programs, activities and special events they wish to attend

• Laundry Assistant
  Volunteers assist with folding the laundry

• Group Therapy Assistant
  Volunteers provide assistance to the therapists who conduct the activities

• Special Events
  Volunteers assist with special events such as bake sales, seasonal parties and events, etc.

• Kitchen Assistant
  Volunteers assist kitchen staff with preparing, serving, and cleaning up after meals

Volunteer Coordinator Contact Information
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Volunteer Coordinator
St. Michael's Health Group
7404-139 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5C 3H7

Tel: 780-473-5621 (extension 3556)
Toll Free: 1-800-472-6169
Fax: 780-472-4506
Email: pwilkes@smhg.ca

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