Music / Singing volunteers needed in Napa, Sonoma, and Marin Counties

Anchor Health is currently seeking Music Hospice Volunteers who live in Napa, Marin, and Sonoma Counties (San Rafael, Novato, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Napa, City of Sonoma, and more).
Music helps to promote stimulation, relaxation, and decreased anxiety. It can also decreasepain and discomfort, facilitate communication, and encourage social interaction. If you play an instrument, we'd be honored to have you as a hospice volunteer. You do not need to have a music therapy license to participate. Simply bring along your instrument and/or your singing voice to your visits and become a beautiful addition to a hospice patient's day.
Volunteering for Anchor Health will give you an opportunity to truly make a difference in another person's life. Your smile, your listening, your attention, your music, and your compassionate presence will bring the important gift of connection and affirmation to someone who is in their final phase of life.
Volunteers are given assignments that work for them. You tell us how often you'd like to volunteer, and we'll find an assignment that's a good match for you. All of us at Anchor Health value you, your time, and your very generous heart. We are grateful for any amount of time you wish to volunteer, whether that be on-call or occasionally, once a month, once a week, or 8 hours a day. It's always up to you.
In addition to providing the gift of music, if you choose, some additional things you could do as an Anchor Health Hospice Patient Volunteer include:
Have a friendly visit with a patient and/or their family members
Read a book or a passage out loud
Play cards or other games
Do arts and crafts like coloring, painting, drawing, etc.
Walk their dog
If you're a Veteran, relate and connect to patients through your mutual experiences
Share or view photos
Knit or scrapbook
Sew memory bears or blankets or ornaments
Make flower arrangements
Take a walk with them
Sit outdoors with them on a patio and enjoy the sunshine or shade
Run errands
Grocery shop
Do some very light housekeeping
Organize a bookshelf, a closet, a garage
Accompany them to community activities
Ride with them on a para-transit bus to visit the beauty shop
Trim their roses so they have a pretty view from their window
Help them write letters, emails, and cards
Interview them to create a life journal they can pass along to loved ones
Have a beautiful conversation
Sit with them in compassionate and therapeutic silence
Volunteer your licensed services: haircut, manicure, massage, reiki, and alternative therapies.
Bring along your licensed pet therapy animal
Provide some respite care so the family or a caregiver can take a little break
Sit vigil with a patient who is actively dying
Give the gift of your heart and your time
Let us know what you enjoy doing!
If you are interested in volunteering in an administrative role, here are some things we can always use help with:
Assemble our start-of-care bags that patients receive on their first visit
Prepare the hospice binders
Make copies
File paperwork
Call patients or caregivers to see if they need any supplies or medications
Help with mailings
Help with our annual celebration of life event
How do you get started?
Let us know you're interested and our Volunteer Coordinator will give you a call! You will receive an orientation to hospice concepts as well as training for your patient visits and/or administrative help, and you will be well-supported and greatly appreciated by Patients, their families, and the entire Anchor Health Hospice team.
We look forward to talking with you!
Warmly,
Maria Castillo