GROW YOUR OWN: Component of a Great Youth Volunteer Program

Overview: Youth Volunteers are our future. We really do need to grow our own future healthcare workers.  This AHVRP Webinar offering includes a complete “Tool Kit” to supply you with the information you need to build and run a great program.  You will learn how to involve the staff and the adult volunteers in the program; also, how to engage the youth and parents while building lifelong allegiance to your facility.

Learning Objectives:

• How to involve Administration and staff
• Orientation requirements to meet Joint Commission standards
• Best recruitment tool for Teen Volunteers
• Basic mechanics of running a YV program

“Volunteers are unpaid not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.”

Presenter: Nancy Williams, CAVS 
Nancy Williams has been with her hospital for 30 years and the Director of Volunteer Services for the past 22 years. She has her Masters in Healthcare Administration from Troy State University & a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Columbus State University.  She is a true advocate for Volunteerism. Nancy has been married for 25 years with 3 children; volunteering is her family’s way of life.

Presented: 2010