Department	Chairman:	Betty Casey

Home Service Volunteers

These volunteers donate their time for active duty military or veterans and/or their families. Volunteering can be earned done in your home for the benefit of home-bound, sick or injured service members and veterans. These activities might include sewing, mending, babysitting while the veteran attends medical appointments or rehab sessions, or making quilts/knitting for hospitalized or homeless veterans.

Field Service Volunteers

This is any service provided to a sick or injured veteran outside a VA Medical Center.  I t also includes assisting with veteran’s burial or grave site upkeep.  Field Service Volunteers are required to complete Field Service Orientation . Volunteering can be done on behalf of veterans in state or community-based nursing homes/soldiers homes, contracted veterans’ homes, day care centers, foster homes, halfway houses, hospices, homeless shelters, stand-downs, Christmas Shops (not at a VAMC) or veteran cemeteries or grave sites.

Junior members may also earn hours through services provided while under supervision of a Senior volunteer (examples: reading, playing board games, plan activities around special holidays, and upkeep of veteran grave site).

To view/print the VAVS Volunteer Handbook, click here.

To view/print the American Legion Auxiliary Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation Guid to Volunteer book, click here.