Volunteer

Volunteer Opportunities at KYC include:

• 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.
• Meals-on-Wheels 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.
• Money Management volunteers help seniors with budgeting, check-writing or other financial tasks.
• Senior Advocates (Red Tape Cutters) help seniors apply for benefits and fill out applications.
• Case Aides help Seniors case managers in administrative tasks and make phone calls to clients.
• Friendship Volunteers are matched with people challenged by the stigma of mental illness and visit weekly to share friendship, role modeling, and social outings.
• Psychosocial Rehabilitation Aides help a few hours each week to talk, interact, and take part in activities in the day program for clients with serious mental illness.
• Resale Shop Volunteers work at Kenneth Young Resale Shop, 1150 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg, to accept, sort, and mark donated items for resale. Proceeds benefit KYC's Mental Health & Senior Services.
• 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- our Fashion Show Luncheon, Golf Outing and 5K Walk.
• Councils and Committees share expertise, link to the community and give feedback.
• Board members define KYC's social mission and direct the strategic plan.