Name:Bristol Bay: Helping Hands Volunteer Program Brochure
Name:
Bristol Bay: Helping Hands Volunteer Program Brochure
Definition:
This brochure explains how volunteers can provide valuable help as someone
nears the end of life. The brochure describes customary and traditional ways
of helping, such as bringing in firewood, smoking fish and picking berries.
Category:
Organizational Tools - Programmatic Material
Source:
Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation
Helping Hands Program
PO Box 130
Dillingham, AK 99576
Contact:
Bob Swope
bswope@bbahc.org
How the grantee used this instrument:
This brochure is an important tool to recruit volunteers in a village to help
a patient and family. Because it offers specific ways of helping, potential
volunteers can relate to how they can help and patients/caregivers can have
specific needs met.
Keywords:
volunteer recruitment, volunteer services
To use this tool:
For information on availability email Monique Maas, mamas@bbahc.org.
References:
Developed specifically for this project by the project team.
Posted August 2003
Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation overview page
# BBAHC2, type:programmatic_material
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying persons and their families. Visit PromotingExcellence.org for more resources.
