{"id":7262,"date":"2023-12-11T17:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:27:57","slug":"virtual-volunteer-opportunity-for-osu-science-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2023\/12\/11\/virtual-volunteer-opportunity-for-osu-science-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Volunteer Opportunity for OSU Science Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Borna, and I am a&nbsp;student&nbsp;volunteer with Conversations to Remember, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, dedicated towards combating loneliness and isolation felt by senior citizens. We are very interested in partnering with you to have your&nbsp;students&nbsp;volunteer with us to help these seniors. Our virtual visit program matches 2-3 college&nbsp;students&nbsp;with residents of long-term care, assisted living, and memory care communities for virtual video visits. These residents have been suffering from isolation, and your&nbsp;students&nbsp;could really brighten their days just by speaking with them. We provide training to the&nbsp;students&nbsp;in the program about the best ways to interact with the seniors, as well as additional support throughout their service. Since these visits are virtual, your&nbsp;students&nbsp;can do it without any travel. This is both convenient, and allows more of the volunteers&#8217; time to be spent volunteering, rather than commuting to their volunteering location. We provide this program free of charge to seniors across the country, and have&nbsp;students&nbsp;from around the country as well. We would very much like to partner with you, and hope that your&nbsp;students&nbsp;would like to volunteer to help our seniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically,&nbsp;students&nbsp;volunteer 1-2 hours per week. Each call lasts up to one hour, based on the senior&#8217;s attention span and mood on each day. We expect&nbsp;students&nbsp;to volunteer for approximately 16 weeks, so that they can build a friendship with the senior. This does not need to coincide with the start of a semester, as we have new seniors starting all the time, and train new volunteers weekly. The&nbsp;students&nbsp;are matched based on the times that they&#8217;re available, with a senior who is available at the same time, and they will have a regular, weekly appointment for their visit.&nbsp;Students&nbsp;wishing for more visits or other opportunities that allow them to volunteer more hours can be accommodated with different ways to volunteer, such as assisting us with our social media, call support, or outreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please feel free to contact me with any questions that you have about the program, or to look through our website, at<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconversationstoremember.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CLuanne.Johnson%40oregonstate.edu%7Cb23b170de2ec4846eb4708dbfaa3fdc9%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C638379354466793401%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=2pVlcw1EM3yLjcRl5c6BfPGGVz1SoyyMuXo4IOWcLO4%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;https:\/\/conversationstoremember.org<\/a>. Your&nbsp;students&nbsp;can register to volunteer by filling out a volunteer interest form on our website. If you&#8217;d like a flyer to tell your&nbsp;students&nbsp;about us, you can find one<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconversationstoremember.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F06%2FC2R-info-for-student-volunteers-with-links.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CLuanne.Johnson%40oregonstate.edu%7Cb23b170de2ec4846eb4708dbfaa3fdc9%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C638379354466793401%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ap47dIiDvFBOkm2xshD%2Fx%2B12bUJ1PqbpPDE%2F0SwTU5Q%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Borna Golbarg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversations to Remember, a NJ Nonprofit Corporation<br>Telephone: 862-243-5331<br><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conversationstoremember.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CLuanne.Johnson%40oregonstate.edu%7Cb23b170de2ec4846eb4708dbfaa3fdc9%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C638379354466793401%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7r1Xf%2FdQ7LYlrETuyZ4C%2FzLUJa2n3VcudccqolYEhR0%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ConversationsToRemember.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Borna, and I am a&nbsp;student&nbsp;volunteer with Conversations to Remember, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, dedicated towards combating loneliness and isolation felt by senior citizens. We are very interested in partnering with you to have your&nbsp;students&nbsp;volunteer with us to help these seniors. Our virtual visit program matches 2-3 college&nbsp;students&nbsp;with residents of long-term care, assisted living,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2023\/12\/11\/virtual-volunteer-opportunity-for-osu-science-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}