Programs
Index:
- Literacy
- Youth
Literacy
Adult Literacy
Adult Literacy volunteers tutor in libraries, drug rehabilitation facilities and GED programs to help adults, many foreign born, improve their reading, English citizenship and learning skills.
America Reads
America Reads is a 1:1 intergenerational, paired reading program, that helps students who are not reading at grade level. The volunteer tutors help increase word fluency and reading comprehension to help make reading fun and enjoyable.
Click on the icon to the right to view the latest America Reads program update.
Family Literacy
Family Literacy Program helps parents and their preschool children enrolled in Head Start develop the reading skills they need to succeed. Classroom readers help children learn to love books and to embrace reading at home.
Youth
Pen Pals
Pen Pals is an intergenerational program that allows volunteers the luxury of volunteering from home. Under a supervised program, volunteers write to and receive letters twice a month from students in the fourth grade at a selected elementary school. At the end of the school year, Pen Pals meet at a classroom party, hosted by RSVP.
Environmental Team
Environmental Team volunteers are recruited and trained to present environmental topics to children in grades 1 - 12 at schools and summer camps. Click on the icon at right to read the Environmental Newsletter.
To request a speaker for your organization's event, click here for a Speaker's Bureau Booking Request Form.
Adults
Friendly Calling
Friendly Calling volunteers make regular calls to elderly persons who live alone. These calls serve as a safety check and help alleviate loneliness and depression, while keeping folks connected to the community.
VOAD (Volunteers Organized Against Disaster)
VOAD volunteers are trained by the American Red Cross to help if/when disaster strikes. They are trained in life-saving skills and visit senior centers and senior retirement facilities to present information on what to do if a natural or man-made disaster should occur.
Environmental
Environmental volunteers who are trained on environmental issues present information to senior groups, PTAs, teachers, and service organizations.
Meal Preparation & Delivery
Meal Preparation & Delivery volunteers serve meals to homebound seniors in partnership with Meals on Wheels at local senior centers.
Thresholds
Thresholds is a program that trains volunteers to work with those who are incarcerated in the Delaware County Prison System. The program teaches good decision-making skills to help prisoners make better choices when released from jail.
The Community at Large
RSVP Legends Band
RSVP Legends Band is made up of a fabulous group of men and women who enjoy performing and sharing their musical talent throughout the community. They rehearse twice a month and typically entertain at 3 - 5 performances monthly.
To request the Legends Band to perform at your organization's event, click here for a RSVP Legends Band Booking Request Form.
RSVP Clowns
RSVP Clowns are trained volunteers who spread cheer at hospitals, nursing homes, schools and community and charitable events with magic, face-painting and balloon sculptures.
To request a booking for the RSVP Clowns, click here for an RSVP Clowns Booking Request Form.
Guys 'N Gals
Guys 'N Gals are talented volunteers who enjoy singing and performing at nursing homes and community events.
To request a booking for the Guys 'N Gals, click here for an RSVP Guys 'N Gals Booking Request Form.
Speaker's Bureau
RSVP Speaker’s Bureau Available Topics
These are the currently available topics that RSVP volunteers will speak about. Please complete a request form at least 30 days before your event to avoid scheduling delays or conflicts. Some volunteers will only speak to certain age groups; that information is noted behind the topic.
- Nature, birds, flowers, trees
- Humor and how to use humor in life
- Early PA history, History of the Mainline and Renaissance Italy
- Pennsylvania Coal Region/Mines/diff. kinds of coal; published a book, "Molly McGuire"; will talk about that too
- Keeping your brain active (see a website www.potentialities.com)
- Creativity in your Golden Years
- Jewish holidays….or kabala
- Thresholds program, if someone needs speaker about volunteer opportunities
- Environmental Issues
- Music, Arts, Health and Humanitarian (children only)
- Sun Safety, Recycling, etc. (children and schools)
- Recycling and Climate Change (any audience)
- Senior Self Care Problems and Solutions: for Elderly and Caregivers - Decreased Mobility, Reduced Vision & Hearing, Declining Memory and Cognition, ½ hour each topic, 12 person max., this is a hands-on, interactive presentation.
If you know anyone who has exciting information to share and they’d like to be a part of our Speaker’s Bureau, have them contact Lynn Cohen.
The Speaker's Bureau Booking Request form is available online here or you can call the office at 610-565-5563 and have one mailed or faxed to you.
The programs listed above are only a a small part of a much longer list of volunteer opportunities available through RSVP of Delaware County.
To see our current list of volunteer openings,
click here. Or click here for information on how to contact us.