Gives senior citizens the opportunity to share their lifetime skills, talents, and abilities with special needs children and young adults. Foster grandparents spend 15 hours each week at local elementary schools, daycare centers, head start sites, hospitals, detention centers, and group homes, giving one-to-one attention, encouragement, and support to children needing assistance in overcoming physical, mental, social and emotional obstacles.

* Engages senior citizens into service, including: Volunteer Transportation Corps: provides medical transport for other seniors. Bone Builders: Lead low-impact exercise classes for other seniors. Tax Counseling for the Elderly: Provide IRS sanctioned tax preparation services for other seniors.* Provides training for all opportunities.

* Engages income-eligible senior citizens to provide consistent service in assigned classrooms in pre-schools, day care and school settings. Foster Grandparent volunteers provide help for specific children within these classroom settings.

Provides a small stipend to low income seniors to provide support to children and youth who need extra attention and encouragement in a day care, school, Head Start, and other settings.

* Offers adults with developmental disabilities a helping hand when needed, socialization opportunities, chance to fine tune their daily living skills.

Friendship Center volunteers, Home Delivered Meals drivers, Clerical Assistance, Picnic and Outdoor Event Help (spring, summer and fall), Health Insurance Counseling (HIICAP), Exercise Coaching, A Matter of Balance Leaders, Tai Chi leaders, Friendly Calls volunteers. Free training is provided as necessary. Many of the above volunteering options are suitable for students who need to fulfill school and/or house-of-worship community service requirements, particularly our OFA Picnics and other OFA events.

Offers a variety of home care options, from basic medical and daily living needs, to more specialized medical care, skilled nursing, infusion therapy, and support services for traumatic brain injury. Short-term in-home respite care is also available for families/caretakers, along with a companionship program for older adults who need someone to visit or help with simple tasks in a patient's home or in a health care facility.

Offers a full range of volunteer opportunities for older adults, with local and national organizations. Individuals choose how and where they want to serve, the amount of time to give, and if they want to draw on their skills or develop new ones. Participants receive pre-service orientation, training from the organization, and supplemental insurance while on duty.

This program offers older adults an opportunity to give back to their community, through volunteering. They can give of their time, talents and experience to engage in service activities that will assist in meeting the need of the community.

This program offers older adults an opportunity to give back to their community, through volunteering. They can give of their time, talents and experience to engage in service activities that will assist in meeting the need of the community.

Provides volunteer opportunities for men, women, and youth. The Office of Volunteers continuously recruits, interviews and determines the best service suited for a volunteer. Those interested in becoming a volunteer can call, write or fax American Red Cross on Long Island. Online application available www.redcross.org/li.

Older adults volunteer opportunities of Sullivan county.

Provides part-time employment for low income senior citizens to work with children who are disadvantaged in schools and hospitals. There is a pre-service orientation and in-service training.

The AmeriCorps Builds Lives through Education (ABLE) Early Childhood program mobilizes individuals in national service to revive and strengthen educational environments, expanding opportunities for today's youth. Individuals serving in the program work to enhance the quality and impact of early childhood programming in Western New York. Program focuses on early childhood school readiness and addresses the need for more prepared early childhood teachers to work with ethnically diverse, low-income urban populations. ABLE Early Childhood provides tools to help members build careers in early childhood education and more effectively prevent future academic and developmental delays for students. ABLE Early Childhood members serve full-time up to 10-months in early childhood classrooms, working with 3- 4-and 5-year-old children. Members serve alongside lead teachers and are coached on early childhood teaching techniques. ABLE Early Childhood also operates the ABLE Summer Learning program, for which members serve full-time for eight weeks during the summer helping to offset summer learning loss for students in grades K-12. AmeriCorps members receive a living stipend, education award, and other benefits while serving. Contact the program for more information.

This program offers older adults an opportunity to give back to their community, through volunteering. They can give of their time, talents and experience to engage in service activities that will assist in meeting the need of the community.

Offers senior volunteers 55 and up to assists students and teachers in a classroom setting.

Organizes community-based services that promote activity, socialization and lifelong learning in order to empower older adults to age with dignity. Coordinates older adults with caregivers who need a break, elder refugees who want to learn English and know their community and older residents living at home or in nursing homes and other senior-assisted communities.

Gives senior citizens the opportunity to share their lifetime skills, talents, and abilities with youth with a developmental and/or learning disability. Foster grandparents can spend 15 to 40 hours each week at local elementary schools, daycare centers, and head start sites, giving one-to-one attention, encouragement, and support to children needing assistance in overcoming physical, mental, social and emotional obstacles.

Outreach workers make home visits to homebound/isolated senior citizens to provide information and referral counseling. Also available at senior centers.

Compiles, edits and layouts the Senior Circle which is a joint quarterly newsletter by the Office for the Aging and Lifelong. The publication is mailed to all Tompkins County households with residents 55 years and older.

* Offers volunteer opportunities for individuals that include volunteering for nursing homes, food banks, food pantries, nutrition education, VITA tax services, thrift stores, medical transportation, bill payer, stay young strong bones leader and falls prevention.

Gives senior citizens the opportunity to share their lifetime skills, talents, and abilities with youth with a developmental and/or learning disability. Foster grandparents can spend 15 to 40 hours each week at local elementary schools, daycare centers, and head start sites, giving one-to-one attention, encouragement, and support to children needing assistance in overcoming physical, mental, social and emotional obstacles.

Provides list of older adult job seekers 55+ yrs to people seeking personal care, companions, assistance with chores, handyman and homemaking assistance. Long-term, short-term or one-time jobs. Senior helpers are paid by the people requesting the jobs. People interested in hiring are encouraged to screen senior helpers.

Assists older adults 60 years old and over with services and resources to help them maintain the quality of life and independence that they have. Referrals may include health and wellness services, social enrichment activities, advocacy, case management, and home visits.

Serves county youth by providing nutrition education, fitness activities, management of volunteers who work with youth, and housing services for economically disadvantaged individuals and families.