Rockland Senior Volunteer Program

Rockland Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Rockland Senior Volunteer Program offers "one stop shopping" for people aged 55 years of age or older who are looking for enjoyable and meaningful volunteer service opportunities. Active volunteering can improve your health and ward off isolation and depression for both the volunteers and the people they serve.

What RSVP Volunteers Do

• Serve as home-delivered meal drivers, medical transportation aids. friendly visitors, food pantry workers, exercise instructors, clowns, museum guides, health insurance or income tax counselors, thrift shop and library assistants, handymen and much more!
• Choose how and where they want to serve
• Learn new skills while utilizing the knowledge they developed over a lifetime
• Give their time, talent and expertise and heart

What RSVP Volunteers Gain

• Help in matching your interests and availability with local service agencies who are addressing critical community needs
• Great sense of achievement
• Opportunity to make new friends
• Accident and liability volunteer insurance coverage
• Optional mileage reimbursement for volunteers who drive as part of their service
• Recognition for years of service and special achievements
• Meaningful community engagement
• Other volunteer opportunities

Caring volunteers are the backbone of the Independence Project. Volunteers assist the elderly, disabled, homebound and veterans in Rockland County to attain a high level of independence by providing transportation form the client's home to and from medical appointments and pharmacies. Volunteers for the Independence Project can be any age with a valid driver's license.

HIICAP volunteers provide information, education and counseling about Medicare and other health insurances. Volunteers receive training under the auspices of the State Health Insurance Counseling Program. 

The CHORE service utilizes volunteers to help Rockland County senior citizens and people with disabilities remain safe and secure in their homes. If you are available during the week and can perform minor household repairs, please consider this great opportunity.

How to Join

Please call (845) 364-2120 or click the links below to find out how the Rockland Senior Volunteer Program can provide a fulfilling and interesting volunteer opportunity while making impact on the community.

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Foster Grandparent Program  (845) 429-4122
Mentor a student with special needs and earn a stipend.

Responsibilities include:

• Read with a child
• Play games
• Develop a one-to-one relationship
• Enhance a child's self esteem

 Benefits you receive:

• A modest, tax-free stipend
• Monthly training
• Paid sick and vacation days
• Meals provided during service
• Assistance with transportation to school site

If you are 55 or older, meet income eligibility, want to work between 15-40 hours per week and receive a stipend plus other benefits, contact Head Start of Rockland, Inc. at 845-429-4122.