Student Volunteer Opportunities

We encourage current students and graduates to do volunteer reflexology in the community of their choice. Volunteering brings benefits of health to the minds and bodies of those receiving the work and assistance to the community at large, and it helps you learn about different issues related to health, feet, and tissue textures in reflex areas. It might even lead to a specialty you can offer later in your professional life!

Please contact SRMC if you have additional volunteer suggestions. Be sure to provide us with contact information, volunteer description and any requirements or education offers that might be involved with the volunteer facility.

CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES

Hospice & Palliative Care

Evergreen Hospice and Palliative Care serves patients and their families in your neighborhood. Volunteers offer assistance through companionship, respite care, life review, light household help and by running errands.  They offer volunteer education classes throughout the year. Patient assignments are made in consultation with the volunteer. For more information about becoming an Evergreen Hospice & Palliative Care Volunteer, contact us at:

     • www.evergreenhospital.org/services/hospice/hospicevols
     • evergreenhospicevolunteers@evergreenhealthcare.org
     • 425.899.1040

Care for Victims of Human Trafficking

The Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS) is a grassroots non-profit that was started by survivors and their allies to stop the violence of prostitution. OPS works in three program areas: survivor services, community education, and men’s accountability. OPS accompanies survivors of prostitution in creating and sustaining efforts to heal from and end this practice of gender-based violence. By leading the community in healing the harm of prostitution, OPS will shift the social norms that support the practice of prostitution. OPS is both a social service agency and an agent of social change.

For more information about volunteering, visit http://www.seattleops.com/.  To learn more about how you can help, attend an OPS community forum meeting, such as this one:  http://www.seattleops.com/community-engagement-forum-may-1st-the-greenwood-library/.

Reflexology Humanitarian Trip to Peru in 2013

Dreaming of a sunny vacation south? Why not be different and make a difference! Volunteer your time as a reflexologist as part of a humanitarian trip to the Caribbean – it can change your life!  Please contact Gina Stewart, RCRT and instructor at www.reflex-ions.com or newbridgechurch@wightman.ca for details on the upcoming two week volunteer trips to Our Little Brothers and Sisters Orphanages. Earn RCRT CEU points. Tax receipt available from Friends of the Orphans of Canada.

PAST OPPORTUNITIES

Help Veterans through Reflexology

On June 16, 2012 the Washington Women Veterans Conference will take place in Tacoma.  Washington Reflexology Association is seeking volunteers to work with Paul Harvey (reflexologist, researcher and teacher from California) at this event.  To participate, please contact Rev. Kay Morris-Johnson at optimalself@q.com.  Check out this article from March/April 2013 about PTSD and Reflexology!   http://www.massageandbodyworkdigital.com/i/108504/72