Get Involved!

Are you looking for a meaningful and rewarding way to provide a valuable service in your community? Mid County Senior Services has many opportunities for people like you to help support our mission of supporting older adults to remain living in their own homes independently and safely.

Volunteers come from all types of backgrounds and alla ges are welcome. There are opportunities for people who are interested in making a long-term committment as wel as people who have a community service requirement to fulfill. Groups, schools, churches and businesses that wish to organize a community service day are all welcome.

Chore Connection - Volunteer Home Support
Through Chore Connection volunteers help low-income older adults with household chores and transportation.

• Escorted transportation: volunteers drive older adults to medical appointments

• Grocery shopping: volunteers take older adults shopping or go shopping for homebound older adults

• Household chores: help with light cleaning, even windows!

• Yard work: volunteers mow lawns, trim hedges and bushes, rake leaves and help with yard clean-up

• Minor home repairs: install smoke detectors, paint, small plumbing jobs, and other odd jobs

• Office help: volunteers also offer their time in the office answering and making phone calls, writing newsletters, sending out mailings and other valuable work

Do you have yard equipment, such as a lawn mower, weed whacker or hedge trimmer, which are still in working condition? Consider making a donation to Chore Connection. Many older adults do not have their own yard equipment and some volunteers are willing to help but do not have equipment that they can transport. With your donation, we can provide more services to more people.

Volunteers help keep older adults safe because with help, older adults will not risk doing the work themselves. Also, older adults can avoid adding an increased burden to their already limited budgets. (Call Lynn Shelton at (610) 353-6642 for more information.)

Senior Centers
The Havertown Center for Older Adults, in Havertown, and Hometown Senior Center, located in Media Borough, are looking for volunteers for the following positions:

• Activity Leader: Plan and lead a small recreational group or activity

• Home-Delivered Meal Driver: Deliver meals to homebound older adults that cannot prepare meals for themselves. This requires use of your own vehicle.

• Home-Delivered Meal Escort: Assist the Home-Delivered Meal Driver with delivering meals to homebound older adults

• Kitchen Helper: Prepare meals for center members and/or homebound older adults

• Office Help: Answer telephone calls, put together mailings, stuff envelopes and other office responsibilities on an as needed basis

• Health Screenings: Assist staff and healthcare professionals with health screenings

• PEPPI Exercise Leader: Lead weight-resistence and stretching exercise programs for center participants. This requires successfully completing a training program.

• Senior Environmental Corps: A group of dedicated volunteers monitor water quality in neighborhood creeks. Opportunities include water testing, community education and outreach, computer data entry, preparing demonstrations and exhibits, care and oversight of equipment and photography. Training is provided.

Learn More About Our Senior Centers!

Adult Day Services
Your skills and talents can add to the valuable services provided at the adult day centers. Contact the center directors at Barclay Square Adult Day Services, in Upper Darby, Lawrence Park Adult Day Services, in Broomall, or Main Line Adult Day Center, in Bryn Mawr, to find out more about volunteer opportunities, include these opportunities:

• Musicians
• Singing Groups
• Lead activities
• Interact with older adults one-on-one or in small groups

Learn More About Adult Day Services!