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ORGANIZATION: Heart of the Valley, SERVICES FOR SENIORS, Inc.
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Help a senior - Offer your heart, time, and skills in 2 hours or less, a few times each month, based on your availability.
We provide a variety of services and programs directly to seniors living in their home, in one of our service areas! Most services take about 2 hours or less.
New Volunteer Opportunities | Heart of the Valley (servicesforseniors.org)
Like to chat or drive or both -
- transportation to/from a medical/dental or vet appointment
- take a senior to the store or other errands
- Friendly Caller - Friendly Visitor
- Handy volunteer for various repairs, replacements, or modifications for the senior homeowner.
- Home project volunteers can help rearrange a cabinet, stack books, catalog or organize photos, endless opportunities to be an extra pair of hands.
- Yard work using their tools or yours - (plant veggies or flower, small yard spruce up, trim small hedges/bushes)
- General technology setup, troubleshooting or teaching how the latest updates have changed the same tech in a new way...
- Cell Phone/ Computer/ Laptop setup or how to use (includes Android, PC, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Alexa, Google Assistant, etc.)
- new app download and setup with somehow to for the senior
- Smart TVs, program DVRs, Setup smart assistants, VCRs, remote control programming
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About Heart of the Valley, SERVICES FOR SENIORS, Inc.
Location:
PO Box 418, Santa Clara, CA 95052, US
Mission Statement
Heart of the Valley, SERVICES FOR SENIORS, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) corporation, committed to facilitating, advocating and supporting seniors independent living for seniors residing in West Santa Clara Valley.
Description
Heart of the Valley, SERVICES FOR SENIORS, Inc. (HOV) is a volunteer agency that recruits volunteers to act as a helpful, friendly neighbor would, to help seniors stay independent in their lives. Our volunteers help by providing a wide variety of services for them to utilize. All services are offered at no cost to the senior.
HOV began in 1987, has two part-time staff, approx. 800 senior clients and a little over 200 volunteers. Volunteers choose their availability, types of services they would like to help with, and which areas they will serve clients in. Our service areas include the cities of Santa Clara, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Saratoga, Monte Sereno, Los Gatos, Campbell and the West San Jose zip codes of 95117, 95125, 95126, 95128, 95129 and 95130.
During the pandemic, we continued to provide our outdoor services, as we ramped up our Friendly Caller program to all seniors who called in, our Vaccine Angels scheduled vaccination and transportation appointments, to and from vaccination sites, and ordered COVID test kits, high school students wrote pen pal letters, and our volunteers made sure our clients had very happy holidays.
HOV began In-Home services in May, 2022 and Medical Transportation in March, 2023 and is fully open, providing services to our growing list of seniors.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Multiple locations Santa Clara, CA 95050
DATE POSTED
September 27, 2024
SKILLS
- Transportation
- Home Repair
- Basic Computer Skills
- Gardening
- Auto Mechanics / Repair
- Carpentry
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Typically, most service requests require 2 hours or less. We ask that volunteers commit to a 6–9-month time with HOV, providing their particular service(s)
- All volunteers must pass a background check, interview and orientation. Only transportation of clients requires Driver's License. Underage volunteers (<18) must be accompanied by a parent or participate with a student volunteer organization.