Volunteering at Esperanza

Thank you for your interest in volunteering at Esperanza Health Center! Since Esperanza’s founding, volunteers have been an integral part of the Esperanza Health Center team in a wide range of roles, helping Esperanza fulfill our mission to provide affordable, compassionate, and quality health care and services to our community.

Apply to Volunteer
 

• If you are a medical or health professions student who is interested in a rotation, preceptorship or shadowing opportunity with us, please visit our Student/Resident Rotations page to learn more.
• Please visit our Medical Student Mentoring Program page to learn more about this mentorship opportunity with Esperanza.

 We currently have opportunities to serve in the following volunteer positions (updated 10/15/2024)

Patient Relations Volunteer

Volunteers are sought for a project to assess and improve staff members’ interactions with patients. Openings exist at all three sites for this project.

Skills needed:

• Attention to detail
• Spanish is a plus, but not required

Schedule: Ideally, patient relations volunteers would be available every other week or more frequently. Presently there are opportunities multiple days of the week.

Reading Volunteer

Readers are needed to read to children in pediatric waiting rooms. Readers also engage children with paper bag puppets.

Skills needed:

• Interest in and willingness to interact with children and their caregivers
  
• Understanding that children in the clinic can be noisy, messy, or sick
• Ability to read in English; Spanish is a plus, but not required

Schedule: Ideally, reading volunteers would be available every other week or more frequently. Presently there are opportunities to read to children multiple days of the week.

For more information, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator, Meg Malkemes, at megan.malkemes@esperanzahealth.com