RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

WHAT IS THE RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM?

The Retired Senior Volunteer Program is a service initiative through which people 55 and older provide assists to the community by volunteering their time doing something they enjoy doing…and at the same time providing invaluable service. You can touch a life, strengthen communities, make a different and lead the way.

RSVP Volunteers may organize neighborhood watch programs, tutor school age children, renovate homes, teach English to immigrants, program computers, help people recover from natural disaster, provide visitation and transportation to home bound elderly, work in museums and libraries. The list is endless.

HOW DOES THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT?

Retired and Senior Volunteers are matched with local problems in order to strengthen the community. Over the last year RSVP volunteers-provided over 84 million hours of service, valued at more than one billion dollars.

WHAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM?

Community organizations, hospices, schools museums, justice systems, hospitals and other non-profit agencies in Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Paulding, Polk and Walker counties can apply to be Retired Senior Volunteer Program stations. The station identifies activities that need assistance and then work with the program staff to match available Retired Senior Volunteers in their county. In Dade County, for example, RSVP volunteers were instrumental in developing a "Neighborhood Watch" program to aid police in an older established neighborhood where its inhabitants are mostly retired or seniors.

HOW DOES THE RSVP VOLUNTEER BENEFIT?

The RSVP Volunteers receive accident and liability insurance while on duty and annual recognition. In addition, participants have opportunities to use their experience and skills with others and join the more than one million older Americans who strengthen their communities across the country as member of the National Senior Service Corps.

WHO CAN BE A RSVP VOLUNTEER?

RSVP Volunteers must be at least 55 years of age. They must also participate in pre-service orientation and in ongoing training provided through each volunteer station.

For more information about RSVP, please go to:  http://www.seniorcorps.gov/about/programs/rsvp.asp
 

For more information contact:
Bonnie Jones
RSVP Director at
706.235.2798 OR 1.800.361.1888