Crystal Lake, IL30+ days ago
Gain valuable experience and make a lasting impact engaging in service activities, which include in-home respite care per week with 1-2 families that enables the caregiver to attend to essential family or personal needs, the dissemination of information to the caregiver and or care recipient on various medical conditions, coping strategies, social services, support venues, and other resources, creating and supporting peer to peer networks, transitional services, transportation (at the discretion of the subrecipient agency), childcare respite, and volunteer generation through community outreach. LCVMF AmeriCorps volunteers provide a minimum of 450 hours of combined service and training for the contracted period, serving an average of 8-12 hours per week.