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Clinica is a community health center in the truest sense. Our patients
come from within our community, our staff lives within our community,
and our strength and support come from residents of the community. Volunteers
are a tremendous asset to Clinica because they:
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• Let us stretch our budget and resources further. |
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• Provide services that we wouldn’t otherwise be able
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• Allow a larger number of people in our service area to be
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We have a number of ways that you can help support Clinica’s mission
of providing care to the low-income and uninsured, and one of them is
by volunteering your time and talent to our organization. In general,
we prefer our volunteers to be at least 25 years old. If they are younger,
they need to work in a clinic out of the area where they live. All volunteers
go through basic safety training. Also, if volunteers are going to be
in contact with patients, we require that they have a PPD test completed
(to check for tuberculosis).
Depending on their skill sets, volunteers can help with a number of activities.
Some specialist physicians volunteer their time to perform retinal or
podiatry exam on our diabetic patients. Some volunteers work on specific
projects such as our People’s site capital campaign. Many of our
volunteers are readers in our waiting rooms. Instead of having televisions
to entertain young children, we have readers sit in the waiting room and
read to the children as they wait for their doctor’s appointment.
The children love this. Additionally, the readers get to model for the
parents how they should snuggle up with their child in the evening and
read. They need to know how valuable good reading skills are to their
patients.
For more information on volunteering, contact Pam Bauduit, safety and
volunteer coordinator. She can be reached by telephone at (303) 665-3036,
x182, or by e-mail at pbauduit@clinica.org. You can also complete the
volunteer information request form, and Pam will contact you.
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