Hospice volunteer opportunities

Volunteering with hospice and palliative care has many rewards for you as well as the patients and families that we serve. We offer a variety of opportunities utilizing your special talents and skills.

Direct patient volunteers

Hospice volunteers are sensitive, respectful and caring individuals with a desire to help patients and their families. There are numerous ways that volunteers can help, such as staying with a patient while a caregiver has a chance to take a break, visiting, or doing errands for the family.

Being a hospice volunteer enables you to help others at a special time in their life, build your skills, and experience a great deal of self satisfaction. Eighteen hours of free training, flexibility, ongoing support and education are provided.

To become a direct patient volunteer, complete and submit the direct patient volunteer application.

Support volunteers

Support volunteers help in ways that support the entire organization. Opportunities include volunteering in our St. Paul office helping out with administrative duties and can include, data entry, mailing projects, and project assembly. Scheduling for these opportunities are flexible. Other opportunities could include assistance in planning special events in our development department.

To become a support volunteer, complete and submit the support volunteer application.

Volunteer wish list

• Volunteers available during the day
• Pet therapist
• Massage therapy volunteers
• Hair dressers who can cut hair in the patient’s home
• Musicians
• Fund raising special events (golf tournaments, raffle, gala)*
• Clerical volunteers to work in our St. Paul office on 280 and University*

*18 hours of training not required for these volunteer opportunities

Current hospice volunteers & coordinators: