Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Connections provides opportunities through the Human Services Council.

For information on the following and other opportunities, call 360-735-3683.

• CDM Long Term Care Services is looking for activity assistants to work with small groups of people with Alzheimer’s, dementia and brain injuries.

• City of Vancouver seeks volunteers for various events on Make a Difference Day, Oct. 22. Volunteers will clean up Uptown Village, plant trees at Leverich Park, and pull invasive plants at LeRoy Haagen Park.

• Clark County Parks seeks volunteers to pick up litter, including cigarette butts, at county parks on Make a Difference Day.

• Friends of the Carpenter is looking for volunteers to help with a silent auction on Make a Difference Day. Help set up, check in and clean up. Volunteers with computer and money-handling experience are also needed. Data-entry help is needed through Oct. 14, to register participants.

• Lifeline Connections seeks outdoor help on Make a Difference Day with weeding, raking, sprucing up the courtyard, and clearing space for a future garden.

• NatureScaping of SW Washington is looking for general gardening help on Make a Difference Day.

Rocksolid Community Teen Center is an after-school program in Brush Prairie, for students in fifth through 12th grades.

Mentors are needed to spend time with the youth, to share their talents, do homework together, play games or just visit. The center is open from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on school days. Volunteers may help weekly, monthly, or on-call, and must pass a background check.

For information, call 360-885-2181 or go to www.rocksolid-teen.com