Analyzing My Volunteering Theories

As a volunteer I've learned the value of service to others and to the community, and I've seen the impact it has on those involved. I’ve seen so many people, especially through church outreach, positively affected by those who use their time and talents to serve others. Although volunteering has benefited me externally in many ways, such as my Eagle Scout Project and NHS hours, I’ve also gained a greater understanding of who I am as a person. I’ve learned how important service is and how it can benefit myself and others around

Volunteer work is essential for every individual’s life and future careers, it produces a path to connections in the work force, and promotes on the job learning. My practicum work pairing with the National Civil War and Medicine Museums was an amazing, educational 20 hours. Even though I was only there for 20 hours, it was a taste of what I will be tackling in my internship next semester there. I volunteered for four days, and over those days I had a total of four projects. All of the project were different, the first was looking up collection software and plugins, then I took inventory on a case, then I recorded notes on a surgeon’s diary, and finally I described each medicine in a pannier box. All of the people I worked with were immensely friendly and insightful, whenever I had questions they were content to help answer them. The overall experience was tremendously insightful, however, there was a few bumps in the road here and there. This practicum was a great experience that makes me eager for my internship in January.

My third day at Agape was on March 24, 2016. On that day I went in for tuck in calls as usually but these time it was something different. This time is very emotional because one of the patient I called said that he was very lonely and wanted to have company. Just to him say this made me feel very emotional, I could image him sitting there all alone of his front porch. This where volunteer comes in to support the nurse and the families. Many families and nurses can't spend the time with their patient and love due to fact that there are working or doing there jobs. Its is one of the reason I volunteer because of this. I can relate to this because my grandmother is always be her self until my mother gets off from work and when my mother is done

“A
volunteer handbook serves three major purposes: relaying crucial organizational
information, establishing clear expectations, and emphasizing the importance of volunteers to your organization.” Volunteer handbooks are a good tool to make sure you get the most out of your volunteering experience. This handbook was created to outline the expectations that we have for our volunteers, and to provide them with information to get them prepared for the weekend. Section 3.2 reviews all of the volunteer positions needed during the weekend, and the role that each position will play. This handbook is laid out to answer any questions that you may have, or direct you to someone who can answer them. It will provide

I have only had two different jobs in my life. Both required much of my time and caused me to be exhausted at the end of the day. As a student in high school, I knew that volunteering and having a job would help build my resume. I knew that that would help put me in a better position to get a job and start my career. Volunteering and working are both very different experiences but cost lots of time and effort.

Weeping sounds from babies are the first thing I heard when I stepped foot into my volunteering site. The weeping sounded as if the babies were hopeless, lonely, and in pain. Everybody around seemed so busy or just didn’t want be bother with a crying baby. I couldn’t just stand there and let the baby cry. I had to do something. But what?

Looking at the first dilemma, I would present the volunteer opportunity to employees as a way to help give back to the community they work in. I would also try to approach union leadership to see if they wanted to collaborate with the company on the volunteer opportunity. If there was a lot of negative feedback about volunteering their personal time I would allow any one that volunteered the day off with pay to work at the retirement home. This would allow the company to say the employees volunteered their time and care about their social responsibility. A drawback to this plan may be a delay to work that had been going on at the plant due to the loss of a work day.

I've had several volunteer positions that have taught me a number of skills and exposed me to a variety of new experiences. Throughout high school, I volunteered at the hospital near my house, and while I was there, I held various positions. My first position was as the radiologist's assistant. As her assistant, I did secretarial assignments, like filing papers and escorting patients to the correct locations. My other position at the hospital was working the front desk. There, I delivered newspapers and coffee throughout the hospital, answered the phone, and escorted patients to various locations. Working at my local hospital, I not only learned how a hospital runs on the inside, but I also learned how to communicate more effectively with people that I just met and try and make them feel

This has been part of my meaning making process throughout my life and in this project. Volunteering is one way that I have participated in, but not as often as I would like. There are so many opportunities so having to do this assignment helped me to think about this more now. I felt it was beneficial to get it done all at the same time frame so that it could really impact my experience, which it did. I was able to work to feed the homeless and help stock things for families who could not afford food on their own. By giving my free labor I was able to help feed many others and this was the best part of doing this type of service. After the first session, I felt so grateful for my own life and what/who I have in it. I was able to see how working jobs, such as these require a lot of physical labor. This is something that I have not really experienced in my own life. I worked really hard to help in both parts of this volunteering experience. I did what I was told and did not complain about it. It was rewarding and easy to just listen to what the supervisors asked of me since most of the work I do is usually mental and not physical at all. I actually went home with my wrist hurting from working so hard and this made me appreciate people who do this work every day. It was also great to help families find what they needed at the food pantry and interact with them because I probably would not encounter this

1. The two most important things I learned from my volunteering experience are that all kids need attention and positive support. Whether they effectively seek it out or not and that kids comprehend significantly more about what is going on than they can express in words and therefore the environment provided at child care centers can have a big impact on the child’s early development. While working with the kids I thought that it was anything but difficult to pay attention to the cutest kids who were continually smiling and needing my attention. The children who were the trouble makers, and the initial few times I volunteered, these were the children who got the majority of my time. For the shyer, less vocal kids I discovered I needed to try to collaborate with them and once they got more comfortable around me, they were more likely to need me to lift them up when they got hurt or scared or play with them. Through this experience I understood that the greater part of the kids required a lots of attention, even the ones who did not want it at consistently. I understood the significance of making each kid feel vital and cared for by adults. I discovered that the kids could see a great deal more about what was going ahead around them then I foresee. They knew a wide assortment of commands and phrases and could make wide associations between past encounters and their present surroundings. One funny example of this happened when I was reading a

I volunteered at the United Boys and Girls of Saint Barbara County (UBGSB). This is a non-profit youth development agency that deals with children ranging as from five to eighteen years of age in the county of Saint Barbara County. The organization’s mission aims to encourage the young population to be productive in their endeavors as well as being responsible for everything they are doing. Areas of concerns are focusing on the academic performance, role models, and adopting healthy behaviors in the population. I choose this organization because being a psychology student, it will enable me to work with children and therefore improve my knowledge in psychology and how to deal with children.

The volunteer program that the RCOC has constructed requires all the people that are interesting to go through a vetting process that all employees, board members, and other persons that working closely with the organization must go through. The potential volunteer must go through a background check, submit a drug screening, have or be able to obtain a fingerprint clearance card, and have a shot record that verifies that they have taken a TB test. The outreach center wanted prospective volunteers take part of these procedures to ensure that the individuals representing the organization have no criminal record and have some sense stability. Before a potential volunteer goes completes the vetting process, they have to submit an online volunteer application, so we can discover their areas of interest, their experience level, and decide if they would be a good fit for the RCOC organization. If we have applicant seems to meet the appropriate criteria they will be selected for an interview. The interview process will include questions as to why they want to volunteer at RCOC, what they want to get out of the experience, and giving them some scenarios that can occur to establish their problem solving skills. After they have successful completed the interview up they will be placed in one of four volunteer departments. RCOC keeps in mind what the individual areas of interest were before making this choice and the volunteers are allowed to float in between departments. The

For the service learning portion of this class I volunteered at a children’s clinic. The clinic I volunteered at is called Chandler Medical Plaza located in Dallas, Texas. The purpose of me volunteering there was to get a look at children and to get an understanding of my future career. Volunteering gives students like me the opportunity to gain experience in a career field I am interested in. It is also important that I understand the extent and the importance of working with children. What other way to understand it if I do not gain it from experience. Volunteering also helps one get involved in the community and make a statement. I believe volunteering serves many purposes but most importantly it gives me the necessary experience one needs before stepping into a career.

However, the impact from my volunteering is unlikely to be sustained outside of the hospital setting as the nature of the volunteering I did meant that I helped those who were acutely unwell and staying in hospital. Once they had been discharged and regained their usual functionality in day to day activities my interaction with them was at an end. I was able to build a strong relationship with a few of the patients though and it is my hope that some of those patients will remember me even when they are back to their normal lives, which

Volunteering is a key element in society, and it has evolved dramatically over time, taking many forms. Before the 1970’s, the main form of volunteering was local club-style groups which emphasized membership and loyalty. One major goal of many of these club-style groups was to promote local pride by conveying to everyone else that their community is great. They glorify volunteering and participation in a way. However, merely conveying this sense of greatness is not enough; these local groups had to find a way to not only promote their community, but also to improve it as well. They do this by hosting fundraisers and charity events in order to raise money and spread awareness for various social issues. These local club-style groups have very broad goals such as making their community more prosperous, but they do not have any specific goals. They are not geared towards solving specific social problems. Instead, their strategy is to just specialize in raising money and awareness to support many different causes, as money can be used to advance almost any cause. These club-style groups stressed the importance of loyalty. Many of its members felt devoted to the groups they were in and would even make space in their schedule to accommodate for meetings and events. Many of the people who participated in such groups were reluctant to skip a meeting, since they viewed the club as not only a long-term commitment but also as a social escape. Some people join these club-style groups