Last updated: January 17, 2012
Telephone Reassurance Volunteer
Become a Reassurance volunteer and help make life a little easier for a senior living in Mercer County. It only takes a short phone call each day to help make someone feel safer living at home. You will matched with someone in your own calling area so the call won't cost you anything. Calls usually take less than 5 minutes. No travel required! You don't go to anyone's home and they don't know who you are. Be that friendly voice on the other end of the phone each day for someone. You will feel good and may even save someone's life. Call (609) 883-2880 or more information or to sign up.
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Retired Senior and Volunteer Program (RSVP)
RSVP of Mercer County - An opportunity for people over age 55 to help in your community. There are hundreds of opportunities for you to make a difference in your community. Have you ever thought of tutoring, delivering meals, helping a national service organization in their office, helping move people in wheelchairs, assisting in a gift shop, guiding tours at a cultural center or historic site, reading for those with poor or no vision, or mentoring children These are many opportunities that await you when you volunteer through RSVP.
Let us help match your talents with the needs of the many nonprofit service groups in your area.
Can you make a difference?
The answer is a resounding YES!
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Fill out the form below and click the Submit button to request more information on
any of the services offered through CONTACT of Mercer County, NJ.
BEGINS TUESDAY, Jan.31, 2012
Join CONTACT of Mercer County's VOLUNTEER HOTLINE
SKILLS FOR BETTER LISTENING
40 Hour HOTLINE Training Course teaches Active Listening and Crisis Intervention Techniques and provides information from community experts on many topics such as substance abuse, mental illness, grief, loss, problems with relationships, and suicide prevention. Helping people with serious problems requires volunteers who are trained and skilled. Callers to the HOTLINE experience a wide variety of problems, some of them life-threatening.
FREE Training Classes Available for Prospective Volunteers
Spring 2012 Class (#76) will meet weekly on Tuesdays
Tuesday, January 31 - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Mornings: 9:30am-12:30pm or Evenings: 7:30pm-10:30pm
Pennington United Methodist Church --- 60 South Main Street Pennington, NJ 08534
Pennington United Methodist Church --- 60 South Main Street Pennington, NJ 08534
Classes are open to anyone age 18 or older who is motivated to help others. References are required before actual volunteer work begins. Upon satisfactory completion of training, each trainee is expected to volunteer at least 100 hours in the first year to qualify for free training.
For those who wish to take the training for personal growth, without the obligation to volunteer, the fee for the course is $150.00.
College students are encouraged to enroll in training. It may be possible to get college credit for internships on the HOTLINE by arrangement with college professors.
To register online, fill out the form at the bottom of the page or call 609-883-2880.
SPOTLIGHT RSVP VOLUNTEER STATION: BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRENTON
Recycle-a-Bicycle
The Boys & Girls Club of Trenton & Mercer County’s Bike Exchange accepts donations of used children's and adult bicycles and recondition them for re-sale at highly discounted prices. Volunteer bike mechanics are needed to tune the donated bikes and volunteer sales people are needed to sell them at a storefront in Ewing.
The Boys & Girls Club of Trenton & Mercer County’s Bike Exchange accepts donations of used children's and adult bicycles and recondition them for re-sale at highly discounted prices. Volunteer bike mechanics are needed to tune the donated bikes and volunteer sales people are needed to sell them at a storefront in Ewing.
ALL proceeds go to the Boys & Girls Club for their after-school programs.
If you can fix a flat or tune a derailleur, great! If you cannot but are ready to learn, training will be provided. If getting greasy isn't your thing, sales help is needed at the shop.
Volunteers are needed on Tuesdays, 5-8PM for bike reconditioning only
and on Thursdays, 5-8PM and Saturdays, 10AM-5PM for sales help.
The shop is located in the Capitol Plaza Shopping Center at 1600 North Olden Ave, Ewing.
For more information, contact Metta Cahill @ (609) 844-0214 or mettacnm1@aol.com.
The shop is located in the Capitol Plaza Shopping Center at 1600 North Olden Ave, Ewing.
For more information, contact Metta Cahill @ (609) 844-0214 or mettacnm1@aol.com.
