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Provides the following supportive services:

• Adopt-a-Grandparent

• Assisted Transportation - age 60 and older

• Caregiver support

• Chore services

• Eldercare

• Family Caregiver

• Friendly visits and phone calls

• Furniture for Families

• Grocery shopping

• Home accessibility accessories installed - grab bars

• Household goods

• Lawn mowing, leaf raking, snow shoveling

• Light housekeeping

• Living with Memory Loss (for those who are living with memory loss)

• Medical appointments

• Medical equipment

• Minor home repairs

• Necessary errands

• Parkinson's

• Seasonal yard work

• Support for seniors to remain living at home as long as possible

• Volunteer opportunities

• Youth mission work

• Automotive repair projects

• Fundraisers

• Junk removal projects

• Landscaping projects

• Snow removal projects

Ambassador: Greeting visitors at History Center events; representing the History Center at county fair and other events; ticket takers Archives and Library: Inventory; patron assistance; record gathering and computer entry; scanning and digitizing Collections: Artifact rehousing and cleaning; inventorying and cataloging Concessions: Handling money and food at Roosters baseball home games Exhibits: Construction and fabrication; proofreading; research Indoor Work: Assistance with mailings; data entry; front desk assistant; gallery and archive light cleaning; gift shop assistant Outdoor Work: Lawn mowing; seasonal clean up; snow plowing; tilling Storytelling: Mayowood docent and tour assistant; museum gallery docent; Stoppel Farm docent; trolley tour docent

Volunteers assist with various services, including Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Meals on Wheels, Senior Café, Home Safety Visits, Family Access Center, fundraising and visibility events, and Board of Directors opportunities.

• Assurance/friendly visit calls

• Caregiver Respite Volunteer

• Child care

• Companionship visits

• Event planning/fundraising

• Food box assembly

• Food box/Meals on Wheels delivery driver

• Food distribution

• Food donation pick up

• Grocery shopping

• Handy worker

• Home safety check

• Household helper (housekeeping)

• Interpreter

• Laundry helper

• Lawn mowing/yard work

• Packing/moving

• Painting

• Paratransit driver/transportation

• Snow removal

• Student tutor

• Technology assistance

Provides assistance to low- and moderate-income homeowners who do not have family members available to help with household chores. Volunteer opportunities are available in yard maintenance, home repair, snow shoveling, and more. May be able to help with:

• Cleaning gutters and downspouts

• Cleaning and changing screen and windows/doors

• Raking leaves, mowing lawns, and shoveling snow

• Railing and grab bar installation

• Small home repairs

• Trimming bushes

Provides the following services that increase an individual's opportunity to stay in their own home or apartment: Support planning:

• Assistance in identifying services and ways to remain at home longer
• Planning for the future as people age or disabilities progress
• Ongoing support

Friendly visiting:

• Volunteers visit with seniors, caregivers and other people facing difficult life situations, sharing their joys and trials

Chores

• Snow removal
• Yard work

Transportation:

• Providing rides for those who are unable to drive or have no means of transportation

Housekeeping:

• Laundry
• Cleaning the home

Note: There may be a waitlist for homemaking services depending on volunteer availability Simple Home Repair:

• Provides seniors and people with disabilities who need help with simple home repair and modification

Volunteer options available for people interested in assisting with homemaking, snow removal, and transportation.

Ambassador: Greeting visitors at History Center events; representing the History Center at county fair and other events; ticket takers Archives and Library: Inventory; patron assistance; record gathering and computer entry; scanning and digitizing Collections: Artifact rehousing and cleaning; inventorying and cataloging Concessions: Handling money and food at Roosters baseball home games Exhibits: Construction and fabrication; proofreading; research Indoor Work: Assistance with mailings; data entry; front desk assistant; gallery and archive light cleaning; gift shop assistant Outdoor Work: Lawn mowing; seasonal clean up; snow plowing; tilling Storytelling: Mayowood docent and tour assistant; museum gallery docent; Stoppel Farm docent; trolley tour docent

Matches older adults and adults with disabilities to volunteers to assist with tasks allowing people to remain safely and independently in their own homes.

• Gutter cleaning or window washing (first floor only)

• Handyman tasks (not requiring a professional, includes painting)

• Lawn care (gardening, lawn mowing, spring clean-up, weeding)

• Light house cleaning (basic tasks such as bathrooms, dusting, floors, kitchens, and vacuuming)

• Moving furniture within the home

• Snow removal (shoveling/snow blowing driveway and shoveling sidewalk) provided on a one-time or short-term basis. A limited amount of volunteers provide this, so it may not always be available

• Only available to those living in the Stillwater Area School District #834

Services are part of Community Thread's THRIVE program.

In Home Care Service is a licensed service that provides an individualized assistance plan to help maintain and support healthy independent aging in the home and community. Aging individuals receive assistance in their home from a trained staff with a daily personal plan which can include household maintenance (laundry/cleaning), personal cares, and/or home management (phone calls, organizing, reading mail, arranging appointments), and socialization.