ACVVS

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The ACVVS is a free service that aims to improve quality of life for aged care residential or home care recipients who are experiencing loneliness or social isolation.

ACVVS Volunteers are matched with a recipient with the aim to build a long-lasting relationship which allows the recipient to feel more connected to their wider community.

Who can join our ACVVS team?

Anyone aged 18 – 100+ who is mature, empathic, kind, has good communication and listening skills and who is willing to provide friendship to a socially isolated older person in either a residential care facility or private in home setting within the Salisbury, Playford, Gawler and Lower-Barossa Council areas for a minimum of an hour per fortnight.

Our team of dedicated volunteers have the privilege of engaging in conversations with older people who come from diverse backgrounds. These older people encompass a wide range of cultural and ethnic origins, educational backgrounds, values, beliefs, sexual orientations and gender diversity, and worldviews. We make every effort to match volunteers and recipients that may share a common interest, language, cultural or life experience.

Additional requirements

A National Police Check Certificate which can be arranged free of cost through Northern Volunteering S.A for suitable candidates
Undergo free volunteer training to help prepare and support you in your role prior to commencing volunteering