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Partnering with a Volunteer Visitation Program
North Carolina
Category: Program Management
Project Description:
A new pilot volunteer initiative began in October 2005 in North Carolina. The Resident Companion Volunteer Visitation Program is a volunteer program whose goal is to enhance social interaction and quality of life for residents who live in a long term care facility and have minimal visitation by relatives or friends. The Resident Companion Visitation Program is a partnership with the North Carolina Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, Division of Aging and Adult Services Volunteer Programs and a nursing facility. The program works to match a volunteer with a resident in a long term care facility for one on one visitation.
Project Impact:
The Resident Companion Program has already made a positive impact for residents in nursing facilities who have out lived family and friends or who were placed in a facility away from their relatives. An example is a resident displaced due to Hurricane Katrina. Through the Resident Companion Program the volunteer was able to reduce the resident’s sense of isolation by providing companionship and help enhance the resident’s life during their stay in North Carolina.
Contact Person: Denise Rogers
Phone Number: (919) 733-8395 Fax: (919) 715-0364 E-mail: denise.rogers@ncmail.net
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