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Other Service
Opportunities in Community
Please Note:
- This is not a complete list of agencies that need your
help, but a start for some ideas.
- When contacting an organization below, ask for the Volunteer
Coordinator. They will assist you in setting up your service
work.The following agencies have volunteer opportunities
for young people as long as they are properly supervised
(accompanied by an adult).
- Consider using days off from school (school holidays OR
summer months) to do your service work. The weekends are
often difficult due to program closings or too many volunteers.
ELDERLY:
Volunteer Opportunities: play bingo with
nursing home residents, visit with those who don't get visitors,
deliver or serve meals to the elderly population in our community,
organize a prayer service for the residents who cannot get
to their service on Sunday, or assist residents to and from
Sunday Mass held on-site on Sundays
Nursing and Assisted Living Homes:
a. Delmar Gardens of Overland Park: 469-4210
b. Delmar Gardens of Lenexa: 492-1130
c. Salvation Army: 816-756-1455
d. Don Bosco: 691-2973
e. Little Sisters of the Poor: 541-0737
f. Villa St. Francis: 829-5201
g. Villa St. Joseph: 345-1745
HOMELESS:
Volunteer Opportunities: serve meals, organize
the food in the pantries, collect/distribute blankets, toiletries,
etc.
a. Shalom House: 321-2206 (Mary Kay Meyer)
b. City Union Mission: 816-474-9380
c. Harvesters: 816-231-3173
d. Project Uplift: 451-9559
e. Hot Lunch Inc. (Formerly St. Mary's Food Kitchen) 281-5638
f. The Village Church Food Pantry: 381-2994
MIGRANT AND REFUGEE CONCERNS:
a. Migrant After School Program including
Computer Lab Aides: 621-5774
b. Refugee Resettlement: 621-5990
c. Hispanic Ministries: 642-7999
d. El Centro: 913-677-1115
CHILD CARE:
a. St. Vincent's: 816-756-3511
b. St. Benedict's Special Children's Center: 621-7403
c. Don Bosco: 816-691-2936
d. Johnson County Montessori Preschool and Day Care Center,
Director, Barbara Lyons at
913-649-3838
THE SICK:
a. Ronald McDonald House (cook and serve
meals to families staying at the House while their children
are in the hospital due to life threatening illness): 384-5324
b. Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America 262-1515
DOMESTIC ABUSE:
a. Rose Brooks Center: 816-523-5550
b. Synergy Services, Inc.: (Trick of Treat Village) 816-587-4100
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES:
a. Special Olympics: 789-0347
MINISTRY TO UNWED MOTHERS:
a.. Hand to Hand: 681-1834
MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES/ORGANIZATIONS/OTHER
IDEAS:
a. Habitat for Humanity: 338-4539
b. Johnson County Christmas Bureau: 341-4342
c. Operation Wildlife (help this organization who rescues
our native wildlife with upkeep of their grounds): 631-6566
d. Sacred Heart Catholic Church: (help parishioners with raking
leaves, lawn mowing and shoveling driveways; stuff bulletins,
assist with church cleaning) 422-5700
e. Make get-well cards for hospital patients or the elderly
f. Walk dogs for a pound or humane society
g. Wash windows for the home bound.
h. Do yard work for someone who is disabled
i. Read a book at a nursing home.
j. Volunteer at a hospital or library
k. Teach first aid to young children
l. Take underprivileged kids or the elderly to a museum |
