Volunteer Opportunities

Residents are invited to participate in any of the following volunteer opportunities in the area. For more information or to sign up, call the phone number listed for the event.

•Department of Volunteer Services of UCLA Medical Center in Westwood seeks volunteers for Ambassador program to serve as guides to visitors, answer questions and act as concierges.

Volunteers must complete a training session, serve once a week for four hours and be able to walk around the hospital and push wheelchairs if needed.

An information tea will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Tues., Nov. 13 at the medical center. To RSVP for the tea, call (310) 825-6001.

•The American Cancer Society is seeking volunteers to participate in several programs that provide needed assistance to cancer patients.

The Road to Recovery Program provides patients with transportation to doctor's appointments and chemotherapy appointments.

The Look Good, Feel Better Program provides classes with licensed cosmetologists to help cancer patients cope with the effects of chemotherapy.

The Man to Man and Reach to Recovery programs provide support and encouragement to current cancer patients through volunteer breast and prostate cancer survivors.

ACS is looking for licensed drivers with a car and insurance, licensed state of California cosmetologists or estheticians, and breast and prostate cancer survivors to help in the programs listed above.

ACS is always seeking volunteers in any background. For more information, call Pam Brady at (805) 529-2530.

•The Malibu Lagoon Museum (Adamson House at Surfrider Beach, Malibu) needs volunteers to provide tours of the oceanfront state historical site. Docents work twice a month for two to four hours. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The training program will begin soon. There is a $40 fee for course materials and museum membership.

Volunteers are also needed to work in the gift shop.

For more information, call Donna Lemkin at (310) 456-1517.

•Nonprofit Volunteer Organization of Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks needs volunteers to serve four hours a week. Positions include discharging patients, information desks, admitting, ER, surgery information desk, gift shop, recovery room and more. For details, call (805) 370-4716.

•The Conejo Valley Retired and Senior Volunteer Program is recruiting men and women ages 55 and above to assist at a variety of local nonprofit agencies. Opportunities include:

Shop Ahoy, a program for people who cannot do their own grocery shopping, needs callers (work from home), shoppers and drivers to deliver groceries to homes.

Tutor elementary school students with reading, writing and math.

Westminster Free Clinic needs doctors, nurses, dentists and other medical specialists.

Meals on Wheels needs drivers to deliver meals to ill or homebound seniors.

For information or to sign up, call (805) 381-2742 or visit RSVP at 1385 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks.