• HOME Support Volunteers are matched with a fragile or isolated elderly client to help with visiting, shopping or respite from one to three hours a week.
• Home-Delivered Meals Drivers deliver hot meals to senior clients once a week over the noon hour, ensuring good nutrition and social contact for frail persons home alone.
• Senior Advocates outreach with information and help with benefits applications.
• Case Aides help case managers in administrative tasks and client phone visits
• Friendship Volunteers are matched with people challenged by the stigma of mental illness and visit weekly to share friendship, role modeling, and social outings.
• Recreational Aides help a few hours each week to talk, interact, and play cards and games in the day program for clients with serious mental illness.
• Resale Shop Volunteers work at Kenneth Young Center Resale Shop, 1150 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg, to accept, sort, and mark donated items for resale.
• Clerical Volunteers assist staff with a variety of tasks or special projects like bulk mailings.
• Special Events Volunteers work on a committee to plan and execute fund-raising projects- KYC's Fashion Show Luncheon, Golf Outing, Walk and Dinner Dance.
• Councils and Committees share expertise, link to the community and give feedback.
• Board members define KYC's social mission and direct the strategic plan.

     For questions about volunteer opportunities please call Betty Jones or email her at: bettyj@kennethyoung.org