We welcome your interest in volunteering the
Cancer Survivors' Network (CSN) at Saint Joseph's.
Volunteers are truly the backbone of the Cancer
Survivors’ Network.
The CSN is a place to receive cancer resources
and support services. It is a place to learn about
cancer and cancer survivorship through our many
educational programs. But, most importantly, it
is a place to connect with others who have traveled,
and are still traveling, the cancer journey. Our
network is unique in that it is guided by the
insight and wisdom of cancer survivors and caregivers
who are passionate about “giving back”
to others who face the challenges that cancer
brings.
We invite you to volunteer with us. There are
many ways to volunteer and many levels of involvement.
Look over the list below as “food for thought”
and let us know if anything interests you. We
would love to involve you in what we’re
doing and would welcome your contribution.
For more information, contact CSN at CSNinfo@sjha.org.
Click here for recent
volunteer news.
Get Involved
Generating new ideas:
- Join our program
committee- source of ideas for lunch &
learns, new program ideas.
- Help identify gaps in cancer survivorship
programming: “what don’t we hear
enough about.”
- Join the annual conference
committee and help plan topics, outreach efforts,
marketing, partnerships with religious community,
etc.
- Help design & produce the quarterly newsletter.
- Help design our website content.
- Help research books that should be ordered
for our Cancer Resource
Library; help organize a book donation drive.
- Help develop new fundraising opportunities.
- Help identify other organizations with whom
we should be collaborating.
- Help identify good publicity outlets.
One-on-one support:
- Telephone
Connection: be someone that offers
to be called as need arises for telephone support.
- Patient
Visitation: train to visit patients
on the inpatient unit or in the outpatient area.
- Serve lunch to patients in
the Outpatient Oncology Unit.
Ongoing education:
- Join the Cancer Resource
Library committee: Help sort, shelve, research
what books should be ordered or help organize
a book donation drive.
- Help identify informative internet sites to
add to our internet resource list.
Join the Community Outreach committee:
- Help represent Saint Joseph’s Hospital
and the Cancer Survivors’ Network at health-related
community events and health fairs.
- Partner with and assist religious institutions
with cancer awareness outreach efforts.
- Help attract new volunteers by participating
in prospective volunteer coffees and special
events such as our Celebrate Life party.
- Support Group Facilitator Training: attend
this training and start a support group in your
own community.
- Help with Saint Joseph's sponsored community
events such as Relay for Life.
Office/clerical:
- Help copy, fold and label monthly support
group mailings.
- Database maintenance – keep up with
address changes, new members, printing labels
for mailings.
- Help keep our resource guide up-to-date (annual
telephone update).
- Help keep our support
group list up-to-date (annual telephone
update).
- Assist with developing and sending out monthly
e-newsletter.
- Help fax out weekly announcements to community
newspapers.
- Assist with the registration desk at the annual
conference.
For more information, contact CSN at CSNinfo@sjha.org or call 404-851-5051.