Virginia Tech created a new volunteer program called VT-ENGAGE to encourage volunteerism and enhance the relationship and partnership efforts between the university and the community.
United Way and VT-Engage are community partners in an effort to match volunteers with organizations needing volunteer help by utilizing an online system called Volunteer Solutions. You can use Volunteer Solutions to find volunteer opportunities and/or post the volunteer needs of your group.
Volunteers: We encourage you to register and complete a volunteer profile so you can receive email alerts about opportunities you would like. Click here to register.
Non-Profits: Register your group's volunteer and donation needs so you can receive email alerts about matches to help you. Agencies and organizations, click here to register.
VT-ENGAGE reaffirms Virginia Tech's commitment to service worldwide and helps people actively live out its motto, Ut Prosim, That I May Serve – established in 1896.
If you live outside the New River Valley area, simply enter the zip code of your community in the U.S. and opportunities listed closest to you will be listed.
Welcome to Volunteer Solutions
The Town of Blacksburg helps provide this local United Way community building program, connecting individuals to volunteer opportunities & donated goods to charities locally.
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Good Samaritan Hospice
| Last updated on October 30, 2008 |
Good Samaritan is the only community based, not-for-profit hospice serving the Roanoke and New River Valleys. We are Medicare and Medicaid certified
and licensed in Virginia. We offer holistic approach to health care that provides hospice and grief support to patients, families and community members regardless of ability to pay.
Description:
Hospice care is provided in the home or a home-like setting. Good Samaritan Hospice's interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, chaplains, certified nursing assistants, bereavement counselors and volunteers are specially trained to assist the patient to live as fully as comfortably as possible with his or her rights to dignity and choice intact. We work with both the patient and his or her family to alleviate distressing symptoms (such as pain), provide personal care, assist with decision-making, provide emotional support and, in general, provide a "safety net" that people need during this time of life.
Good Samaritan’s approach to hospice is about choice. At the heart of the hospice philosophy is the belief that patients who face terminal illness should be encouraged to remain independent and in control of their lives. We encourage the patient and family to participate fully in every decision about care.
The last stage of life can be a time for growing, sharing, cherishing, savoring, and letting go. At Good Samaritan Hospice, we are experts at helping people care for loved ones facing advanced stages of illness.
Contact people:
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Karita Knisely, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)
Becky Harris, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Marti Byrum, Supervisor, (phone), (email) |
Office fax number: (540) 381-3191
Address:
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125 Arrowhead Trail, Suite E Christiansburg, VA 24073 (See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.goodsamhospice.org
Directions:
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125 Arrowhead Trail is located off of Roanoke Street in Christiansburg. From By-Pass 460, take exit 114 onto Business 460/11 towards Christiansburg. This is also known as Roanoke Street. You will pass the Food Lion Shopping Center, Habitat for Humanity Restore. Arrowhead Trail is the street on the left before the stop light. Our office is located on the second floor of the 2 story,brick building which stands directly above Roanoke Street. |
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