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March 2009

Texas Attorney General’s Office seeks volunteers for their Lubbock Child Support Offices. Volunteers have the opportunity to impact the lives of children in Lubbock and the surrounding area by volunteering at one of the two Lubbock Child Support Offices. The two combined offices handle more than 32,000 – 33,000 child support cases.

The Attorney General’s Child Support Division is directed by state and federal law to assist Texas families who currently receive or have received public assistance and families who require child support services. Services focus on locating absent parents; establishing paternity of a child born to unmarried parents; establishing, enforcing and modifying child and medical support orders; and collecting and distributing child support payments.

Each year, volunteers across the state assist the Office of the Attorney General to serve Texas families and children more efficiently and effectively. Volunteering can be beneficial to people from various walks of life including individuals seeking new job skills, student-interns seeking to satisfy course requirements, retirees and other Texans who simply want to give back to their communities.

Volunteers are needed in 3-4 hour shifts, 2 days/week, anytime Monday through Friday during the 8:00 am to 5:00 pm workday. Duties could include data entry, filing and assisting child support officers. If you are interested in impacting children’s lives, please contact the RSVP office at 743-RSVP (7787) for more information.

Volunteer Opportunities:

Interim Healthcare Hospice is looking for compassionate volunteers to assist with patients/families or administrative/non-patient needs.

Patient/Family Contact Volunteer Opportunities include but are not limited to:

Arts and crafts; bereavement support; birthday club; calls to patient or family; caregiver relief; writing cards, letters, envelopes for patient or family; crisis support; companion visits; continuous support during crisis; errands for patient/family; games; handyman/light repair; hair care/manicure/pedicure; homemaker help such as cooking, laundry, light cleaning; lawn care or gardening; life review; music; outdoor activities; patient feeding assistance; photography and/or video; reading; shopping for or with patient/family; spiritual care.

Administrative Volunteer Opportunities include but are not limited to:

Arts and crafts; assisting with phone calls; hand-written cards, letters, envelopes; computer skills (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Word Perfect); copying; musical entertainment; errands; filing; general office duties; host or hostess duties; photography/video; receptionist.

Free training and on-going support is offered to ensure the best and most rewarding experience for the volunteer. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please contact the RSVP office at 743-RSVP (7787).

Covenant-Lakeside is in need of volunteers to serve in escort and messenger positions. These responsibilities will include, but are not limited to escorting patients and families, and delivering flowers and mail. Two volunteers are needed on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, and one volunteer is needed on Friday mornings from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. If you are interested in volunteering with Covenant-Lakeside, please contact the RSVP office at 743-RSVP (7787), and we will put you in contact with the Lakeside Auxiliary Placement Chairman.

To volunteer, or for more information about these or other volunteer positions, please call the RSVP office at 743-7787.

HOW do I join RSVP?

Becoming a member of RSVP is simple as long as you are at least 55 and have some time to volunteer. Just call the office at 743-77873 and chat with Karon McDowell about your interests. If you are not certain what you would like to do, we can mention several current volunteer opportunities and send you a list of the sort of jobs which RSVP members are presently doing to whet your appetite. If you have a special skill or talent that you would like to utilize, we will search to find just the right job for you. Just mail in the enrollment form (requires Adobe Reader) and we will call you!