Create and Grow a Resilient Volunteer Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-2
Author(s):  
Kim Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Volunteer Program

The Research Component of the Ottawa Criminal Court Volunteer Program: Theoretical Rationale, Operationalization and Evaluation Strategy

1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-133
Author(s):  
D. A. Andrews ◽  
Colin Farmer ◽  
R. J. Russell ◽  
B. A. Grant ◽  
J. J. Kiessling
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Court ◽  
Theoretical Rationale ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Evaluation Strategy

Volunteer Management Reference for Local VCE Master Gardener Coordinators

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 503a-503
Author(s):  
Sheri T. Dorn ◽  
Paula Diane Relf
Keyword(s):  
Educational Program ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Volunteer Management ◽  
Educational Programming ◽  
Job Descriptions ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Reference Guide

Virginia Cooperative Extension's (VCE) Master Gardener volunteer program is available in 72 unit offices. The unit programs are managed by MG coordinators who currently include 10 locally funded agents, eight locally funded technicians, and 28 volunteers. The VCE Master Gardener Coordinator Manual, a 12-unit resource book, was developed cooperatively with teams of MGs, coordinators, and agents to enhance coordinators' skills for managing the local VCE MG program. The manual includes chapters on VCE MG components such as risk management; job descriptions; recruitment and screening; and volunteer review, recognition, and retention. Additional resources within the manual include a synopsis of educational program planning, implementation, and evaluation, as well as a copy of the current VCE Master Gardener Program Policies and the volunteer section of the Virginia Master Gardener Handbook, which serves as program orientation for new or prospective trainees. The VCE Master Gardener Coordinator Manual is the basis of three local MG coordinator training sessions in 1998. Additional resources available to coordinators for enhancing the local MG program include a MG newsletter focused on the role of Master Gardeners as community leaders and educators; program policies and guidelines for the management of MG training and operation; VCE publication 426-699 Welcome to Virginia Master Gardenering! Guide to Educational Programming and Resource and Reference Guide; and the VCE Master Gardener Internet website at http://www.ext.vt.edu/vce/specialty/envirohort/mastergard/master.html.

Student Volunteer Program

GSA Today ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 10
Keyword(s):  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Student Volunteer

Build Your Volunteer Program for Diverse Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Keyword(s):  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Diverse Communities

Friendly Calls to Seniors: an Interprofessional Student Volunteer Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. S130-S132
Author(s):  
Mark Nathanson ◽  
Sonalee Rau ◽  
Enoch Jiang ◽  
Simon Phyllis
Keyword(s):  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Student Volunteer

scholarly journals Social Volunteering in Aging Adults Increases Regions of the Amygdala and Correlates With Enhanced Generativity

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 795-795
Author(s):  
Michelle Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Social Engagement ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Brain Health ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Intention To Treat ◽  
Intervention Impact ◽  
Aging Adults ◽  
The Brain

Abstract The Brain Health Study (BHS) of the Baltimore Experience Corps Trial (BECT) examined whether a randomized, controlled trial of an intergenerational social volunteer program, entitled Experience Corps, increased subregions of the amygdala related to socioemotional memory and risk for Alzheimer’s disease in aging adults. We further assessed functional correlates of these intervention-related changes and changes in aging adults’ developmental need to be generative, or, to give back to the well-being of others. The BHS simultaneously randomized 112 men and women (59 intervention; 53 control) within BECT to evaluate intervention impact on biomarkers of brain health at baseline and annual follow-ups during the two-year trial. Intention-to-treat analyses revealed program-specific increases in the shape of the centromedial and basomedial regions of the left amygdala (p’s≤0.05 adjusted), which were correlated with increases in generativity (p’s =0.06). Meaningful social engagement buffered amygdalar declines important to preservation of emotionally salient memory and risk for dementia. Part of a symposium sponsored by Brain Interest Group.

Create Sustainability Within Your Volunteer Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Keyword(s):  
Volunteer Program

Effect of Mental Hospital Volunteer Work on Career Choice

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Murdo M. Dowds ◽  
James A. Kulik ◽  
Karl E. Scheibe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Career Plans ◽  
Academic Year

This study was designed to investigate the effect of participation in a mental hospital volunteer program on students' subsequent career plans and activities. Responses of the volunteers on follow-up questionnaires were compared with those of two control groups of college students not in the program. The number of volunteers planning careers in mental health professions increased significantly after participation in the program while the control groups showed little change in career plans. The volunteers also evaluated their summer's experience as highly important for their future vocational plans, and a high percentage planned to spend their next summer engaged in mental health activities. The program had only limited effects, however, on the academic-year behaviors of the volunteers.

A Second Evaluation of the Rideau Inmate Volunteer Program

1980 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Paul Gendreau ◽  
Doretta Burke ◽  
Brian A. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Volunteer Program

Preventing Institutionalization of Elderly Blind Persons

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Arnold M. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Nursing Home Care ◽  
Service Delivery Model ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Describes the Virginia Commission's Project on Aging approach to serving elderly blind persons on the verge of entering a nursing home. Using empirical observations of the Project's participants, provides insight into the characteristics and needs of this population, examines the impact of a service delivery model that imphasized linkages to existing community services, and discusses the development of a structured volunteer program that enabled elderly blind persons to remain in a community setting. A longitudinal cost analysis of 42 olients whose imminent institutionalization was prepented by the Project's intervention, suggests that the dollar cost of maintaining elderly blind persons in the community is considerably less than the cost of nursing home care.

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