Domestic Violence Alternatives/Sexual Assault Center (DVA/SAC)
Contact: Lynn 1-800-779-3512, P.O. Box 1507, Marshalltown or 236-7226, 927 4th Avenue, Grinnell

Mission: DVA/SAC is an organization serving Marshall, Jasper, Poweshiek and Tama Counties that provides services to battered women and their children and to rape and sexual assault victims.

Volunteers are needed to be victim advocates, for which the Center provides 32 hours of training. Volunteers can then perform such services as answering the hotline, providing transportation, accompanying sexual assault survivors to the hospital or to court, counseling, doing shelter work, facilitating support groups for women, helping with community education, or carrying a pager to help in emergency situations. There are other opportunities for volunteers without the training to do research or short-term projects, but the Center has the greatest need for trained volunteers. There is also a need for volunteers able to speak and translate Spanish and Sudanese.

THE AMERICAN RED CROSS, Iowa Rivers Chapter
Contact Person: Shirley Davis, 641-753-3317, ext 5.
709 S. Center Street
Marshalltown, IA 50158

Mission: This chapter of the Red Cross provides disaster relief in the event of tornadoes or interstate closings. Other work includes aiding families affected by house fires and developing a network of support to contribute to national or international disaster relief.

Volunteers are welcome to help with anything that interests them. Volunteers are needed to teach First Aide in the local elementary school. Instrunctors are also neede to teach Health, Safety and Disaster presentations. Training is available.

GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Contact Person: Kerri Olson, 236-2588, kolson@grmc.us or Patty Hinrich, 236-2551, 210 4th Avenue

Mission: Providing health care for life.

Volunteers are needed to be liaisons for visitors and families of patients, and some one-on-one patient contact. Volunteers are also needed to help with public health and education classes. There is also a need for volunteers to help do research and office work. Volunteer opportunities include working in the gift shop, delivering flowers and mail, and staffing the breakfast services cashier. Also needed are people to volunteer at the Information Desk to greet and direct patients and visitors and to help in the surgery waiting.

GRINNELL REGIONAL HOSPICE
Contact Person: Debbie Cooper, 236-2418, dcooper@grmc.us 106 4th Avenue

Mission: Grinnell Regional Hospice is a Medicare certified hospice that has been serving terminally ill patients and their families since 1982. Providing palliative care through a team of dedicated physicians, nurses, social workers, home-health aides, chaplains and volunteers, hospice focuses on quality of life instead of quantity of life. They provide care in nursing homes, in two hospice units at the hospital and the home setting.

Volunteers are needed to do office work such as research, phones and mailings and are also needed for patient care. An 8-session training is provided for patient care.