Do you need help and aren't sure whom to call? The Information and Referral Center can put you in touch with agencies that care. Information is available on legal help, financial counseling, support groups, health care, emergency food, mental health counseling, recreation and many other human services. Calls are free and confidential. Call the Information and Referral Center at 487-4716, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
If you'd like to inquire about, or volunteer for, any of the following requests, call the Volunteer Center of the Community Services Council, 212 W. 1300 South, 486-2136.Interact with troubled teens and abused children.
Provide carpentry skills to help with basic maintenance.
Supervise adults on probation.
Do basic office work.
Clean up Memory Grove.
Befriend a disabled child in child's home.
Move low-income senior citizen to apartment at end of June.
Befriend refugees.
Work with exchange students. Training.
Be adviser to young men. Must be at least 24. Training. Up to six hours a month.
Answer phones. Four hours a month.
Paint faces at Salt Lake arts festival. June 24-30. Flexible times.
Play piano in Bountiful-area hospital.
Answer phones once a week.
Drive a woman to grocery store weekly.
Answer phones and greet public.
Sell concessions July 3 and 4 to benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation. Training.
Work downtown information desk Sundays. Four hours each week. Training.
Answer phones and greet visitors, flexible times.
Be part of pilot program with victims of domestic violence. One-year commitment. Up to four hours a week.
Call bingo.
Do basic office work.
Help in Big Brothers/Big Sisters office.
Work with patients and families facing terminal illness. Training.
Teach adults basic literacy.
Answer phones and greet visitors.
Set up, take down and help during arts festival. June 24-30.
Visit a senior citizen once a week.
If you speak Swedish, you're needed. Befriend elderly man who speaks little English.
Transport senior citizens to grocery store, appointments. Flexible times.
Tour guides. Give tours of Salt Lake County Complex building. Flexible times. Training provided.
Answer phones. Twenty hours a week. Training provided.
Campground hosts. Mirror Lake area. Campsite and propane provided.
Haircut for senior citizen once a month.
Local care center needs help. Flexible times and varied activities.
Over 50? Help children in kindergarten through third grade with support, friendship and academics. Flexible times, four hours a week.
Donate beds and tables for refugee families.
Provide IBM compatible computer.
Contribute lawn mower and weed eater.
Donate twin bed.
Give household items and furniture.
Donate a carousel slide projector.
Stroller for developmentally disabled child.
Contribute furniture.
Quilts and bedding for twin size beds.
Give double stroller.
Dresser.
Double bed.
Provide answering machine, printer and copier.
Donate bed and table (mattress and springs, not frame) to elderly woman.
Provide refrigerator to food pantry.
Donate air conditioner, adult-size wheelchair, overhead projector.
Older woman needs shower chair.