You make the difference. Over half of all adults in the United States volunteer. Your value contributes an average of 3.5 hours per week, and when you total that over 20 billion hours, volunteers have an estimated dollar worth of $225 billion.

Most people who volunteer report that the joy and satisfaction that comes with giving back far exceeds the efforts invested.

Some other reasons to volunteer:

Volunteering can lead to learning new skills.
Volunteering can help you go outside of yourself and meet new challenges.
Volunteering helps you meet new people.
Volunteering makes you feel needed.
Volunteering can create new contacts which may help your business, career or social life.

If you have ever asked yourself the question, what can I do to help? The answer is Plenty!

Work with Patients

At Hospice we provide training sessions that certify our volunteers to work directly in the patients homes. Your talents and preferences can be adapted to fill the needs of our hospice patients.

The following are just some of the examples where you can help:

Just sit with patients. A comforting hand or voice means so much.
Run errands for patients and their families, such as grocery, pharmacy, etc.
Walk pets
Yard work or gardening

Work in the Office

The offices of Hospice value the volunteers who provide regular office assistance. No special training sessions are required, just an eagerness to help. There are always tasks and jobs to be done in the everyday work.

Friends of Hospice

The Friends of Hospice is an organized group made up of all walks of life that have the desire to play a major role in some of the Hospice efforts to fundraise and participate in fundraising events. They also support hospice on an ongoing basis with special projects. The Friends of Hospice are the core support for the annual Harley raffle, The Wine and Cheese, Dental Day, and the High Tea for Hospice. They meet on the second Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm at the Administrative office of Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice office located at 99 Sparta Ave. Newton NJ.

Please feel free to contact the office at (973) 383-0115 or (800) 882-1117 for more information.

Special Events

Volunteers are often called upon to work in the community with the Foundation’s charitable and special events. Their assistance is vital to the support of these functions. Some examples are:

Manning the Hospice booth at the Sussex County Fairgrounds during the New Jersey State Fair/Sussex County Farm and Horse Show held every August.
Memorial services and events such as Lights of Life and the Butterfly Release.
Selling tickets for the annual Harley Raffle.
The annual Cookie Exchange for patients and their families.
Annual fundraising events such as Holiday Concert and Wine & Cheese.

Other Ways to Volunteer

There are many other ways to volunteer services or give just a small piece of your time.

The lady who brings our office and nurses little treats on a regular basis or the couple who comes by the building and volunteers landscaping assistance, and then there is the couple who delivers us poinsettias to hand out to all the patients…the list can go on and on…and all these things mean a lot.

Hospice Volunteer Training

Upon completion of 8 sessions of training, certified volunteers have the option of working in their communities and establishing their own schedules with allowable services they are willing to provide for the organization. Training classes are held annually in Warren county and Sussex County, and every other year in Milford Pa.

Next Class:

Hackettstown - Beginning March 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 31, April 2

7:00 -9:00 PM

At the Joseph T. Quinlan Bereavement Center

214 Washington Street

Hackettstown NJ

For more information on volunteering or for classes, please call or email Sue Morrow, Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice Volunteer Coordinator (973) 383-0115 or (800) 882-1117, email: smorrow@karenannquinlanhospice.org

We at Hospice are very grateful for the tender care and concern you, the volunteer, bestows on us and our patients. The Hospice holds an annual luncheon for all volunteers to express appreciation for the support given year round.

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