SCRANTON PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
JUNIOR SERVICE MANUAL
“Love manifests itself in
deeds, not just in words”
- St. Ignatius of Loyola
A FUTURE NOT OUR OWN
A prayer / poem by Archbishop Oscar Romero
It helps, now and then, to step back
and take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of
the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.
Nothing we do is complete,
which is another way of saying
that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the church's mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything
and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for God's grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders,
ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
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Aaron Center
Address: 851 Commerce Blvd.
Suite 107
Dickson City, PA 18519
Phone: 570-489-5561:fax489-5563
Hours
Monday - Saturday 8am - 8pm.
Contact:
Antoinette Hamidian, Clinical Psychologist, President
Julie Cordaro, volunteer coordinator
Nechelle Armendolo, other contact
Description
The Aaron Center provides creative, energetic and playful experiences
for children with diverse abilities and ages in an environment designed
for children to simply have fun and make friends. What makes The
Aaron Center unique is that specialized intervention such as physical,
occupational, and speech therapy will be provided. Some of the groups
offered are socialization groups, play groups, baby sign language,
baby pilates and baby massage. The Aaron Center hosts events for
a parents association for autism.
Volunteer Opportunities: WEb site design,marketing and fundraising,
respite services, hands-on activities during group play activities.
Tuesdays 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Fridays 10:30 am- 11:30am
1:00pm - 2:00pm
4:00pm - 5:00pm
“ I am endeavoring to see God through service of humanity,
for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below,
but in everyone.”
- Gandhi
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EOTC Family Matters
Address: 541 Wyoming Ave. Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 348-6493
Hours
Hours Students Needed:
Mon.& Tues. 3:30pm-5:30pm (Southside Scranton) Wed. & Thurs.
3:30pm - 5:30pm (N. Irving Ave.) RV van parked on the block
Contact
Elaine Donly
Description
DESCRIPTION: MENTOR FOR CHILDREN: Neighborhood Outreach Assistants
needed to work on a moble van unit with staff to provide homework
assistance, free play, companion/listener and role model. Proficiency
in spanish helpful but not necessary. Visits can be arranged to any
or all of the sites to see if activities meet interest and needs.
Students will never work alone, but will be with a least 2-4 staff.
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Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeastern PA
Address: 609 Ash Street
Scranton, PA 18510
Phone: 342-8709
Hours
Hours: 2:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday
Summer Hours: 6:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Contact
Executive Director: Mary Ann Dziak
Description
DESCRIPTION: The Club provides social, educational, recreational,
vocational, and character building development for boys and girls
ages 6 -18 dealing primarily with children who are from low income
families. Programming includes: counseling and guidance, arts and
crafts, athletics, music, interest clubs, libraries, game room facilities,
special events and field trips.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Sports officiating and/or Coaching;
Arts and Crafts Instructors; Drama and/or music (piano) Teachers;
Small Group Advisor; General Supervision; Computer Instructor; Dance
Instructor.
Marian Convent
Address: 2300 Adams Avenue Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 346-5423
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Contact: Sr. Dolorosa Loughney, IHM
Description
Home for retired and recuperating Sisters. of the IHM.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Visit with the Sisters; adopt a
Sister friend; therapeutic baking class; assisting at meal time;
library cart. TIME COMMITMENT: Flexible
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Northeastern Veterans' Center
Address: 401 Penn Ave. Scranton, PA 18503
Phone: 961-4380
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Contact: Tom Bufano
Description
The Northeastern Veterans' Center, located in downtown Scranton,
is a 200 bed facility, primarily concerned with veterans who are
in need of nursing home care. The Centers' personnel strive to provide
each resident veteran with both the highest possible living environment
and assurances that all medical, nutritional, sociological, physiological,
psychological and therapeutic needs will be met.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Activities volunteers, nursing unit
volunteers, friendly visitors, musical volunteers, etc.
Time Commitment: Flexible
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Serving Seniors, Inc.
Address: 538 Spruce St., Suite 408-410 Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 344-3931
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Contact: Tina Ford
Description
Serving Seniors, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving
the quality of life and care of nursing home, personal care home
and isolated older adults in the community through Community transportation
services, Volunteer Visitation services, ombudsman/advocacy and guardianship
services.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Friendly one-on-one
visitation, reading to residents, help with group
activities, entertainment,
assistance with arts/crafts, pet visits, teach "resident rights",
computer training and more.
TIME COMMITMENT: A weekly or regular commitment is asked, a visit
of one or two hours. Weekend and evening volunteer hours are also
available.
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Habitat for Humanity
Address: 550 Madison Avenue Scranton, PA 18510
Phone: 342-7911
Hours: 8:30AM-4:00PM Wednesday-Sunday
Contact: Robert (Ozzie) Quinn
Description
Habitat for Humanity International is a non-profit, ecumenical housing
organization with over 1700 affiliates world wide. The Lackawanna
County affiliate was organized in 1990 to provide low-income families
with the chance to own simple, decent homes. Habitat relies on volunteers
and donations to keep the costs of its homes affordable. The homes
are sold to approved families, who pay interest free mortgages back
to Habitat. The money collected from the mortgage is reinvested into
additional homes for other qualifying families.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Habitat for Humanity needs volunteers
to help at the sites; building, painting, landscaping, cleaning,
and a variety of other tasks. Workdays are scheduled through the
office, and advance sign-up is encouraged, but not required.
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St. Francis of Assisi Kitchen
Address: 500 Penn Avenue Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 342-5556
Hours: 8:00AM to 1:00PM Mon.-Sun.,
Tues. - Thurs., 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Contact
Chick DePitro
Description
St. Francis of Assisi Kitchen feeds the hungry and poor; volunteers
come in every day to help cut up vegetables, fruit, preparation of
food, serving meals; cleaning up of kitchen, wiping tables, etc.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Help prepare and cut vegetables
and fruit, clean the kitchen and dining areas, serve the food to
the clients.
TIME COMMITMENT: 9:30AM - 12:30PM or 4:30PM - 6:00PM (Tues.,Wed.,
and Thurs.)
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Friendship House
Address: 1615 Elm St., Scranton, PA 18505
Phone: 341-7102
Hours: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Contact: Donna Redmond or Marcia Manns
Description
Friendship House is a multifaceted agency which provides comprehensive
behavioral health care and protective services for children and their
families. They have a residential capacity for 60 children and young
adults ranging in age form 6 to 16. These children are enrolled in
the Partial Hospitalization/Day Treatment Program, along with approximately
30 additional children form the surrounding community.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Friendship House needs volunteers
in several areas including one-to-one tutoring; assisting art, music
and recreation therapists; helping nurse with various testing; and
any skill that a volunteer possesses could be used to enhance the
services.
TIME COMMITMENT: The only time commitment asked is consistency. One
hour on a regular basis is better than several sporadic hours.
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United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern PA
Address: 425 Wyoming Ave., Scranton, PA 18503
Phone: 347-3357
Hours: 8:30AM - 4:30PM
Contact: Barbara Siarkievicz
Description
Provides community-based programs and support services for children
and adults with developmental disabilities. Adult programs include
developmental, supported employment, and community options programs.
Children's Services involve sensory experiences, education and therapy.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
• Hands-on in program areas by arrangement with Coordinators of Program
Services.
• Assistance with seasonal fund-raisers (UCP Gift Drop).
TIME COMMITMENT: Flexible
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SCOLA Volunteers for Literacy
Address: 5 Morgan Hwy., Scranton, PA 18508
Phone: 346-6203
Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9AM - 8PM
Contact: Diana Statsman
Description
SCOLA provides literacy training to adults in Lackawanna County who
need help with reading, writing, and math, and in the case of English
as second language students, SCOLA teaches conversational skills.
The service is free and confidential.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Computer Lab Aides, Tutoring, etc.
TIME COMMITMENT: 2-3 hours per week
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Head Start - SLHDA
Address: 200 Adams Avenue
Scranton, PA 18508
Phone: 963-6633 Fax 496-7713
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00pm Monday-Friday
Contact: Executive Director: Mr. Fred Lettieri
Contact Person: Ms. Debbi Tomassoni
Michelle Zinicola
DESCRIPTION: SLHDA operates HeadStart Centers in Lackawanna, Susquehanna,
Wayne, nad Pike counties as well as Early HeadStarts in Scranton
and and Hawley, PA.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Students can volunteer in the Centers
assisting staff in supervising creative play activities. Students
serve as the models for our children. The one to one interaction
is extremely beneficial to both the children and volunteers. Volunteer
training is provided before students are placed in the classroom.
State Police and Child Abuse screenings are completed at the expense
of the agency.
Center Phones:
*Central City 342-0810 Dunmore 961-2551 Honesdale 253-0496
Moosic 457-1231 North Scranton 963-0346
South Side I 343-4712 South Side II 343-9555 South Side III 343-5660
Taylor 347-8986 West Scranton 347-0332
“Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your
face,
kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
-Mother Teresa
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Howard Gardner School for Discovery
Address: 134 School Street
Scranton, PA 18508
Phone: 941-4100
Hours: 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Contact
DIRECTOR: Vince Rizzo
Administrative Assistant: Renee Dougherty
AGENCY/ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION:The Howard Gardner School for Discovery
(formerly the University of Scranton Campus School) Pre-K through
8th grade alternative elementary school.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Tutoring, working with children,
Recycling program, Reading and Storytelling, develop public relations
materials and special electivies i.e. poetry, sculpture, drama and
newspaper and after school program.
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Jewish Community Center
Address: 601 Jefferson Avenue
Scranton, PA 18510
Phone: 346-6595; Fax 346-6147
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Monday - Thursday
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 pm Sunday & Friday
Contact
Executive Director: Edward M. Basan
Early Childhood Director: Rika Schaffer
Other Contact Person: Ellyn Heenan, Business Manager
DESCRIPTION: JCC is a non-profit, social service agency serving Lackawanna
County by providing social, cultural, recreational, and educational
activities for the community regardless of religion, race, or creed,
through its licensed Day Care, developmentally appropriate Pre-School,
and FAMILY PLACE parenting classes. (Summer Camp both in the building
and at the 101 acre Daleville campsite).
Student Volunteer Opportunities: Volunteers are welcomed in all phases
of early childhood and camp. Tender loving care and a knowledge of
child development are the main requirements for workers in Day Care
and other early childhood programs; specific skills in sports, arts
or music are needed for camp.
“Happiness cannot come from without.
It must come from within.
It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us
which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do,
first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”
- Helen Keller
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St. Joseph's Center
Address: 2010 Adams Avenue
Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 342-8379
Contact
Executive Director: Sr. Theresa O'Rourke, IHM
Volunteer Director: Kathy Norton
Family & Maternity Director: Sister Anne Walsh (558-5050)South
Scranton;
Joanne Stephens (963-1261)Dunmore
DESCRIPTION: St. Joseph's Center is a regional facility which offers
a variety of programs in service to the community.
RESIDENTIAL CARE: The Center provides residential care to over 140
persons with mulitiple and profound challenges.
FAMILY HOME CARE: In addition 200 individuals with varying degrees
of developmental delays receive services in their family homes.
MATERNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES: young mothers and mothers to be are
given residental assistance and counseling. New parents in need find
help through the Center's Baby Pantry located at 1213 Prospect Ave
or 777 Flex Bldg, Keystone Industrial Park in Dunmore.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: The volunteer service
begins with an orientation to the program and the facility. The
volunteers primarily work with the clients in residence. Many volunteers
choose to work with the clients in residence. They are given the
option of working on a one to one basis with a chosen individual
or, if they prefer, accompanying a resident to an activity. In
either case the volunteer sets a schedule and then is acquainted
with the goals of the assignment. Special project volunteers assist
with field trips or large activities. These are planned intermittently
and volunteers would be notified in advance. Pantry assisants help
with various aspects of the operation of St. Joseph's Baby Pantry.
(sorting donations, record keeping, making deliveries, etc.)
“ Religion is to do right.
It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think,
it is to be humble.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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United Neighborhood Centers of Lack.County
Address: 410 Olive Street
Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 343-8835
Fax: 342-3972
HOURS: 6:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Contact
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Mr. Michael Hanley, M.P.A.
Assistant Deputy Director: Lea Dougherty, MSW
Community Services Director: Lisa Durkin
DESCRIPTION: UNC of Lackawanna County, Inc. is a non-profit organization
that serves the community through a series of neighborhood centers
offering comprehensive and integrated human services tailored for
people of all ages and backgrounds. Since 1923, children, teens,
families, senior citizens, the hungry, and homeless have been finding
services that foster self-sufficiency, independence, and personal
growth at convenient UNC locations throughout Scranton and Lackawanna
County. The settlement house philosophy to aid in the solution of
neighborhood problems permeates the work of United Neighborhood Centers
in its mission "to work together with neighbors to provide services
and create opportunities which empower individuals and build strong
interdependent communities."
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: UNC invites volunteer
participation in the following areas:
-Community Services Emergency Food and Clothing Room (M-F 9-5)
-Annual Thanksgiving Feed-A-Friend Program (November each year) Transitional
Housing and Support Services(Child care on Monday nights)
-Community Services Christmas Toy Store (week before Christmas)
-Child Care (M-F 6:30-6)
-After-School Program for children (M-F 3-5)
-Evening Program for Teens (M-F 6-10)
-Youth Leaders In Training(LIT)Program (weeknights, varies)
-Adventure Learning Ropes Course (weeknights, varied times)
-Project Hope Summer Camp for Youth (five weeks each summer - paid
positions available)
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Abington Manor Genesis Eldercare Network
Address: 100 Edella Road
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
Phone: 570-586-1002
Hours: 9:00 a.m.- 8:00 p.m.
Contact
Executive Director: Michael Moran
Volunteer Director: Mary Louise Kranick
Other Contact Person: Lucinda Viccica
DESCRIPTION: Abington Manor is a long/short term provider of skilled
nursing care. It is a 120 bed facility. We offer rehabilitative nursing,
physical, occupational, speech, recreational, and other therapies.
The entire Genesis Elder Care approach is shaped by one guiding principle:
everything we do is devoted to helping the elderly achieve a full
life.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Friendly visitor, assist or conduct individual
or group activities (i.e. crafts, cooking, horticulture, pet therapy,
etc.), entertainment, transporting residents, beauty shop assistant,
decorating, assisting with field trips, computer rehabilitation program,
reading to residents, special events, intergenerational programs,
pass mail and more!
“ Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Adams Manor Nursing Home
Address: 824 Adams Avenue
Scranton, PA 18510
Phone: 570-346-5704
Hours: Flexible to Volunteers
Contact
Executive Director: Marleen Demping
Activities Director: Elizabeth Benzone
DESCRIPTION: Adams Manor is a skilled and intermediate care nursing
home. Many of the residents are alert and love to be active and involved.
There are traditional programs of crafts and bingo and also bowling,
volleyball, outings to interesting places, discussion groups, story
hour, parties, movies and games.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Volunteers
can visit one to one with withdrawn/depressed residents; help with
letter writing; accompany residents to patio, aid staff in large
group programming, play games with residents. Volunteers can also
help decorate bulletin boards for residents. Always looking for
donations of anything residents could use.
“ Service is the rent we pay to be living.
It is the very purpose of life
and not something you do in your spare time.”
- Marian Wright Edelman
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Green Ridge Nursing Home
Address: 1530 Sanderson Avenue
Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 344-6121 Fax: 344-7402
Hours: Open
Contact
Executive Director: Karyn Pane, NHA
Activities Director: Luann Giles
DESCRIPTION: Green Ridge Nursing Home is a 64 bed skilled nursing
facility; Medicare and Medicaid certified. Physical, Occupational
and Speech therapies. Resident and family Councils, meals planned
by a registered dietician, Respite care and daily activities are
only some services provided. Volunteers are needed in activities
such as pet therapy, intergenerational programs, birthday parties,
and religious services. Volunteers can also be utilized to accompany
residents on outings or to physician appointments.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Volunteers at GRNH can work with residents
within a large or small groups or on a one to one basis.
“ There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men.
There is no greater contribution than to help the weak.
There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.”
- Walter Reuther
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Holy Family Res/Little Sisters of Poor
Address: 2500 Adams Avenue
Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 343-4065 Fax: 346-1196
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Contact
Executive Director: Sr. Alice Marie Monica, lsp, Sr. Vincente, lsp,
acting Administrator
Contact person: Sr. Theresa, lsp
Other contact persons: Laurie Bzdick, Lisa Lucchi
DESCRIPTION: Holy Family is a skilled nursing facility owned and
operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor, an international religious
Congregation which serves over 25,000 elderly in 31 countries throughout
the world. The facility, located next to the McGowan Building of
Marywood University, is home to approximately 55 men and women aged
60 years or above. The Residents benefit from regular medical services,
pastoral care, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, dietary
services, social service, and a wide range of activities within the
home and in the community.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Volunteers would be welcome
in areas such as friendly one-on-one visiting,
serving meals, monthly birthday
party and happy hour, cooking club, arts & crafts and ceramics,
resident outings, personal services, adopt-a-grandparent, intergenerational
activities, as well as one-time events that occur throughout the
year.
“I don't know what your destiny will
be,
but one thing I do know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who have sought
and found how to serve.”
- Albert Schweitzer
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Hospice of the Sacred Heart
Address: 130 Wilkes-Barre Township Blvd
Wilkes-Barre PA 18702
Phone: 570-706-2400, 657-6405
Contact
Diane Baldi, Executive Director
Mary Hoban, Director Psycho Social Services
Sara Raposo, Volunteer Coordinator
DESCRIPTION: The mission of the Hospice of
the Sacred Heart is to affirm life during the final stages by providing
high quality, compassionate care to patients of all ages and their
families who are facing terminal illness; to set the standard of
hospice and palliative care in the area we serve; to promote excellence
in pain and symptom management; to provide access to hospice care
to the undeserved and underprivileged by meeting their needs in
a non-discriminatory manner; to use available resources efficiently
and effectively; and to deliver the message of promoting and providing
comfort and dignity at the end of life by educating the health
care community and the community at large.
“ Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs
by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds
occupied by the needs of others.”
- Barbara Bush
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Jewish Home of Eastern Pa.
Address: 1101 Vine Street
Scranton, PA 18510
Phone: 344-6177 ext. 140
Hours: 24 hrs./7 days a week
Contact
Volunteer Director: Mae Murawski
Director of Activities: Nicole Griffin
Executive Director: Rabbi Samuel Sandhaus
DESCRIPTION: The Jewish Home of Eastern Pa. is a 173 bed skilled
nursing home. It is community oriented and is open to members of
all faith groups. It provides: long-term care; nutrition in accordance
with Jewish dietary laws under the direction of a registered dietician;
personal services and supervision of daily activities; routine medical,
dental and nursing care; occupational and physical therapy and rehabilitative
services; religious, social, recreational and adult education activities;
professional social services to aid the residents with problems of
personal adjustment. A 43 bed Alzheimer Unit provides special care
by a multi-disciplinary team of trained staff members. Adult Day
Care Center operating five days a week providing personal care, nutrition,
recreation and administration of medication which offers a viable
option to full-time admission to a nursing home. Students are urged
not to wear short shorts, halter tops or any shirt that bares the
midriff.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Volunteers provide residents with
warmth and genuine friendship, whether it be on a one-to-one basis
or in a group. Some residents are chronically ill and many others
experience loneliness. Areas of need:
- Partners in caring (friendly visiting, reading, etc.)
- Feeding residents unable to feed themselves
- Motivating and escorting residents to activities
- Playing games with residents
- Discussing sports and current events
- Conducting or assisting in any scheduled program
- Arts and Crafts
- Helping residents write letters
- Share your talents - music, art, dance, crafts
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Willow Brook Assisted Living Community
Address: 150 Edella Rd.
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
Phone: 570-586-6028
Contact
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Pat Kennedy (Administrator)
VOLUNTEER DIRECTOR/CONTACT PERSON: Jo Singer
AGENCY/ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION: Assisted Living for Senior Citizens.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Assisting in Activity Department.
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Hospice Community Care
Address: 385 Wyoming Avenue
Kingston, PA 18704
Phone: (570) 288-2288/344-5922
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (office) 24/7 (in-patient)
Contact
Executive Director: Philip G. Decker
Volunteer Director: Susan Stella
Contact Person: Judy Spitella
DESCRIPTION: Hospice services are designed especially to help terminally
ill patients and their families face the physical, emotional, social,
and spiritual aspects of their lives and the patient's death. Hospice
recognizes dying as a normal process and neither hastens nor postpones
death. Hospice believes that through appropriate care and support,
the person in the last stage of life can live a life full of dignity
and free of discomforts.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Do repute care for family members and sit
with patients. be there if a family member cannot.
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Arc of Lackawanna County
Address: 115 Meadow Avenue
Scranton, PA 18505
Phone: (570)346-4010
Hours: Variable depending on service
Admin. Business hrs. are M-F 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Volunteers needed Thursday evenings 6-9pm
Contact
Executive Director: Donald Broderick
Contact Person: Marge Kearney, Human Resource Manager
Director of Recreation: Mari Pizur (207-0825)
DESCRIPTION: The Arc, formerly the Association for Retarded Citizens,
is a national non-profit organization consisting of 1,000 local chapters
throughout the United States. The Arc of Lackawanna County is dedicated
to serving children and adults with developmental and intellectual
disabilities and their families through various programs and services,
including:
-Advocacy
-Education and Prevention
-Residential Services
-Recreation Services
-Adult Training Services
-Supported Employment/Living Services
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Deutsch Institute
Address: 615 Jefferson Avenue
Scranton, PA 18510
Phone: 348-1968, 348-0891
HOURS: Evening, weekend, some week days
Contact
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Karen Belli
VOLUNTEER CONTACTS: Tara Borgna, Dave Klein , Johanna Belt
DESCRIPTION: The Deutsch Institute is a non-profit agency committed
to the promotion of new approaches in leisure and recreation for
persons with disabilities. Established in 1979, the Institute reaches
out to seven counties in the Pocono Northeast and has offices located
in Scranton and Dallas. The Deutsch Institute has been instrumental
in drawing persons with disabilities into the world of recreation,
sports, and cultural/performing arts by:
- utilizing the "therapeutic recreation team" concept.
- recruiting and training large numbers of volunteers.
- collecting resource information and data.
- offering in-service and on-site assistance to provider staffs.
- encouraging and counseling through the Leisure Guidance Center.
Through the efforts of the Deutsch Institute over the past twenty
years, a wide variety of experiences have been made available to
persons with disabilities in our community. Programs have included
Super Saturdays; mini clinics in basketball, track and field, swimming,
etc.; Deutsch "Up and Down" Bowling League; Experiences
in the Arts; Adult Games for persons with mental retardation; Vacation
Club; attendance at Community sponsored performing/cultural events
such as Philharmonic Concerts and plays.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: A specific goal of the Deutsch Institute
is to recruit and train a pool of volunteers to develop skills
and confidence when working with persons with disabilities. Volunteers
are necessary to help the staff in conducting programs.
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Scranton State School for the Deaf
Address: 1800 N. Washington Avenue
Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: 963-4546
Contact
Superintendent: Dorothy S. Bambach, Ed. D., Superintendent
Volunteer Director: Gerald McGinnis, Director-Treatment/Services
DESCRIPTION: The school consists of an academic and residential complex
providing both a comprehensive education and a communication methods
program for students from birth to 21 years of age.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Those who are proficient in sign language
and can participate in after-school recreation with the children,
especially in athletics and arts and crafts. Volunteers can expect
to pick up or improve their knowledge of sign language. They will
also assist with the special needs of the children.
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Telespond Senior Services, Inc.
Address: 1200 Saginaw Street
Scranton, PA 18505
Phone: 961-1950, ext. 28
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Contact
Sue Baglivo
DESCRIPTION: To respond to the needs and promote the well being of
older persons by employing advocacy, education, relief, and supportive
services which further the development of a model long term care
service delivery system in Lackawanna County.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Provide assistance
with grocery shopping and perform telephone reassurance checks
and medication reminders to older adults living alone in Lackawanna
County.
TIME COMMITMENT: Flexible
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Hospice Preferred Choice, Inc.
Address: 799 Northern Blvd., Clarks Summit, PA 18411
Phone: 1-800-870-0085
Hours: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Contact
Carol Burti
DESCRIPTION:The goal of Hospice Preferred Choice is to enhance the
quality of life for both the patient and family members. Our team
of healthcare professionals and trained volunteers focuses on helping
the family spend time living as fully and completely as possible.
HPC's team combines quality medical care with compassion and concern.
They strive to understand and soothe the pain and emotion experienced
by patient and family as they cope with a life-limiting illness.
In-patient, 7 bed unit, at Mid Valley Hospital.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Companionship, respite care, errands,
etc.
TIME COMMITMENT: Flexible
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Mercy Hospice
Address: 746 Jefferson Ave., Scranton, PA 18501
Phone: 961-0725
Hours: 8:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
Contact
Nancy James
DESCRIPTION: Mercy Hospice is a non-profit organization that cares
for the terminally-ill patients both at home and in our hospice-unit.
We have 24 hour call with RN's, volunteer social workers and pastoral
support.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: The duties of the volunteer are
to provide companionship and sitting respite with the patient to
give the main caregiver an opportunity to shop, visit, or just rest.
TIME COMMITMENT: Students are encouraged to volunteer weekly for
a couple of hours.
