Our mission Our Mission is to guide and support individuals and their caregivers coping with illness, aging, dying, and loss by providing compassionate medical, emotional, spiritual, and personal care.
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Event support volunteers

Event support volunteers make themselves available for special events. Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan conducts fund raising events such as our Golf Fore Hospice and Duck Derby every year. Volunteers help on out on the day of these events in ways that assure the participants a fun, relaxed event.
  • Occasional
  • 21+, 55+, Adults, Child with Adult
  • Individuals
  • Event support
  • On-site
  • Evenings, Weekends

Journeys: A Path to Healing

Volunteers in the Journeys program work directly with grieving children. Two Tuesday evenings each month families come together at the Oakland Centre. Children and youth participate in small groups based on their age. Some volunteers are trained to facilitate these peer support groups. Professional grief support counselors organize the activities for each session and support each group while in session. Volunteers may also choose to serve as greeters, or provide child care to the infants, assist in meal service or back-office help. Help a grieving child.
  • Weekly, Monthly
  • 21+, 55+, Adults
  • Individuals
  • Indoor
  • Formal
  • Weekdays, Evenings, Weekends

Rose Arbor & Glenn Arbor Residences

Clients who face life limiting illness may find they need the unique professional, compassionate care provided at one of our hospice residences. Volunteers are an integral part of the circle of support which allows loved ones to focus what matters most between themselves and the client. As a volunteer, you may serve as a facility host, help with meal delivery and light administrative tasks that help the facility operate. Volunteers also help with laundry, feeding the birds and other light maintenance tasks.
  • Occasional, Monthly
  • 55+, Adults
  • Individuals
  • Indoor
  • On-site
  • Weekdays, Weekends

Pet Therapy

Volunteers go through specific training with their cats and dogs, who then are certified to comfort and give emotional support to our clients and guests.
  • Occasional, Monthly
  • 55+, Adults
  • Individuals
  • Indoor
  • Formal
  • Weekdays, Evenings, Weekends

Home Hospice Care

Volunteer to be with a person at the end of life. You will have the unique opportunity to share moments of joy and sadness, provide comfort, and reduce isolation and fear. The clients we serve may be living in their private residence, a community care facility or in one of our agency operated hospice residences. Volunteers may become a companion to the client by visiting regularly. When the family is caring for the client volunteers may offer much-needed respite services allowing caregivers the peace of mind they need to leave the client's side. Hospice services are flexible and driven by the unique physical emotional and spiritual needs of the client. Volunteers may be asked to help with errands, assist with light housekeeping or offering occasional transportation.
  • Occasional, Monthly
  • 21+, 55+, Adults
  • Individuals
  • Indoor
  • Formal
  • Weekdays, Evenings, Weekends
About us Hospice is Hope. Hope that your time before the end of your life will be as comfortable and meaningful as possible. Knowing that you will be taken care of physically, emotionally and spritually, and that your family will receive care and support. Since 1981, the staff and volunteers of Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan have cared for the sick, the dying and the grieving in our community. In that time, we have learned that life is about supporting people wherever they are in their journey. We believe that – whoever you are – you matter to the last minute of your life.
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