Volunteer
Volunteering and Service Learning are good compliments to your academic endeavors. Frequently they not only are fulfilling but lead to current letters of reference, networking, and structure to the day.
- Does Volunteering Help You Get a Job- Mac’s List
Local Volunteer Sites or Data Banks
- Hands on Portland –
- Volunteer Match –
- Community Non-Profit Resource Group – Â
- Non-Profit job and volunteer positions –
-  Lines for Life Formerly (Oregon Partnership) – a great opportunity to build counseling skills and crisis assessment. Time count towards MHACBO hours
- National job search site but you choose by state.Â
- Nonprofit Association of Oregon – website with local job board –
- seniors struggling with mild/moderate depression and/or anxiety due to life transitions. Program coordinator Chad at chad.cox@nwsds.org
- Washington Co. DHS (short-term community service projects) – NANCY.M.BYCE@odhs.oregon.gov Cell: (971) 348-6553
- Victim Advocate – Multnomah Co. District Attorney –
- Victim Advocate – Washington Co. District Attorney –
- Ecumenical Ministries –
For Medical
- – HQ Tigard, OR
- – Tualatin
- Â Spanish text line
Remote Activities
- – connect & socialize with pediatric patients, make thank you notes, etc.
- – 30 hrs of training for answering texts of people in crisis
- – apply to translate medical texts
- – virtual cards to chemo patients
- – a digital platform for campaigns, such as interface with senior citizens