VOLUNTEERS NEEDED IN WHEATLAND COUNTY
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Wheatland FCSS has this program in place to provide transportation for rural and village residents of Wheatland County to appointments in Strathmore, Drumheller and Calgary. Volunteer drivers are an essential component of this program. If you would like to volunteer or would like more information, please contact us. Please see below for information on our partnership with Drive Happiness.
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Wheatland Meals On Wheels - Frozen Program is underway and is a popular program. We have drivers who pick up meal orders in Calgary and deliver to our office. We also offer a delivery service to residents throughout Wheatland County.
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Senior Power and Women's Conference
Every year WFCSS organizes either Women's conference or a Senior's Conference. These events could not happen without volunteers. We require help with set up, food serving, support and take down.
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To volunteers with WFCSS you must provide the following documents which can me requested via email or picked up at the WFCSS office:
Application Form
Criminal Record Check
Minimum Insurance Coverage Requirement
Statement of Confidentiality
Application Form
Criminal Record Check
Minimum Insurance Coverage Requirement
Statement of Confidentiality
Drive Happiness
Do you have a vehicle and like to be on the road? Are you looking to meet new people and have some spare time?
WFCSS in partnership with Drive Happiness is looking for volunteers to provide transportation for local senior residents.
Drive Happiness was founded in 1998. They provide safe, affordable, reliable, transportation through volunteer drivers.
The service offered is door to door, going to medical appointments, grocery stores, or visiting with family and friends. Drivers will provide rides mornings through to the evening. As a volunteer driver you can help seniors get where they need to go.
Rides must be booked three business days in advance. We do ask that you give as much notice as you can when booking your ride.
If interested click on the Volunteer application link below.
For more information please call WFCSS 403-934-5335 or
Drive Happiness at 780-424-5438
1-888-336-4503
WFCSS in partnership with Drive Happiness is looking for volunteers to provide transportation for local senior residents.
Drive Happiness was founded in 1998. They provide safe, affordable, reliable, transportation through volunteer drivers.
The service offered is door to door, going to medical appointments, grocery stores, or visiting with family and friends. Drivers will provide rides mornings through to the evening. As a volunteer driver you can help seniors get where they need to go.
Rides must be booked three business days in advance. We do ask that you give as much notice as you can when booking your ride.
If interested click on the Volunteer application link below.
For more information please call WFCSS 403-934-5335 or
Drive Happiness at 780-424-5438
1-888-336-4503
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Why Volunteer?
By Susan J. Ellis, President, Energize, Inc.
People volunteer for a wide variety of reasons, especially wanting to help others. But it's also OK to want some benefits for yourself from volunteering.
Some people are uncomfortable with the notion that a volunteer "benefits" from doing volunteer work. There is a long tradition of seeing volunteering as a form of charity, based on altruism and selflessness. The best volunteering does involve the desire to serve others, but this does not exclude other motivations, as well.
Instead of considering volunteering as something you do for people who are not as fortunate as yourself, begin to think of it as an exchange.
Consider that most people find themselves in need at some point in their lives. So today you may be the person with the ability to help, but tomorrow you may be the recipient of someone else's volunteer effort. Even now you might be on both sides of the service cycle: maybe you are a tutor for someone who can't read, while last month the volunteer ambulance corps rushed you to the emergency room. Volunteering also includes "self-help." So if you are active in your neighborhood crime watch, your home is protected while you protect your neighbors' homes, too. Adding your effort to the work of others makes everyone's lives better.
Your Motivations
Think about how much you receive when you give and consider why you want to volunteer. You may have several different reasons. Here are just a few of the many possible motivations identified by other volunteers:
By Susan J. Ellis, President, Energize, Inc.
People volunteer for a wide variety of reasons, especially wanting to help others. But it's also OK to want some benefits for yourself from volunteering.
Some people are uncomfortable with the notion that a volunteer "benefits" from doing volunteer work. There is a long tradition of seeing volunteering as a form of charity, based on altruism and selflessness. The best volunteering does involve the desire to serve others, but this does not exclude other motivations, as well.
Instead of considering volunteering as something you do for people who are not as fortunate as yourself, begin to think of it as an exchange.
Consider that most people find themselves in need at some point in their lives. So today you may be the person with the ability to help, but tomorrow you may be the recipient of someone else's volunteer effort. Even now you might be on both sides of the service cycle: maybe you are a tutor for someone who can't read, while last month the volunteer ambulance corps rushed you to the emergency room. Volunteering also includes "self-help." So if you are active in your neighborhood crime watch, your home is protected while you protect your neighbors' homes, too. Adding your effort to the work of others makes everyone's lives better.
Your Motivations
Think about how much you receive when you give and consider why you want to volunteer. You may have several different reasons. Here are just a few of the many possible motivations identified by other volunteers:
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You will probably have some special reasons of your own. Remember that the motivations you have to select the place to offer your services may not be the reasons why you stay. Once you're on the volunteer job, you will continue to serve as long as you feel that your efforts are accomplishing something, that your talents are appreciated, and that you make a difference. And if you also like the people with whom you work, so much the better!
As long as you are truly serving through your volunteer work, isn't it wonderful that such an exchange occurs? In fact, it tends to strengthen your commitment to volunteering when you can see the benefits to both the recipient of your efforts and to yourself. And it is much more comfortable than "charity" because it upholds the self-esteem of those with whom you volunteer.
As long as you are truly serving through your volunteer work, isn't it wonderful that such an exchange occurs? In fact, it tends to strengthen your commitment to volunteering when you can see the benefits to both the recipient of your efforts and to yourself. And it is much more comfortable than "charity" because it upholds the self-esteem of those with whom you volunteer.