Volunteer opportunities
Thank
you for your interest in volunteering at Planned Parenthood of
Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta (PPLAMD). We are excited
that you want to support our organization as we carry out our
mission to ensure the right and ability of all individuals to manage
their sexual and reproductive health by providing healthcare,
educational, and outreach services to our community.
We
invite you to explore the volunteer opportunities that are currently
available and complete our online volunteer application. Once
your application has been received, you will contact you via email
for an interview. After the interview is completed, you will
receive an invitation to our next volunteer orientation.
Because of the sensitivity of our work, we do screen all volunteer
applicants.
sign
up to volunteer
(this will take you through the Houston
website for the sign-up form)
Where we
have volunteers...
Clinic Support Areas:
Client Advocate: Help us keep our clients aware of
local and national reproductive health care issues. Client advocates
ask our patrons to sign our petitions, and talk them about upcoming
advocacy opportunities, and educational events.
Family Planning Administrative Assistant:
Help our medical services team by providing clerical support.
Activities include filing, shredding, and other office tasks.
Other Volunteer
Opportunities:
Community Outreach: Help us inform the local community
of the quality medical and educational services that we provide.
Activities include asking local businesses and organizations
to make Planned Parenthood literature available to their patrons,
and asking managers to provide information about Planned
Parenthood’s affordable medical services and government family
planning programs to uninsured employees.
Administrative Support: Help our
advocacy and education staff with data-entry, data-base cleaning,
and event publicity.
Health Fairs: Represent Planned
Parenthood of Louisiana at health fairs and other community events.
Health fair volunteers dispense Planned Parenthood
literature, answer questions about our medical services, talk about
upcoming advocacy opportunities and educational events, and ask
people to sign our petitions.
Fundraising/Special Events: Help
us plan community outreach events.
Activities include addressing invitations or mailers,
preparing give-away items, and working at Planned Parenthood
sponsored events including pub-crawls, bar nights and dinner
parties.
VOX (Campus Outreach): VOX:
Voices for Planned Parenthood is a program to education and mobilize
students and youth in support of reproductive health and rights.
VOX groups across the country organize public events, educate
their peers, support their local Planned Parenthood health centers
and mobilize students and other young people to speak out for
reproductive rights and access to reproductive health services.
Planned Parenthood Young Professionals: Planned
Parenthood Connecting Advocates for Sexual Health (CASH) in
New Orleans
, and Social Networks Advocating for Planned Parenthood (SNAPP) in
Baton Rouge
are groups of twenty/thirty something advocates committed to raising
friends, awareness and fun for Planned Parenthood and reproductive
health care issues.
Start with joining
the Planned Parenthood Action Network and stay in touch with
your local and national elected representatives.
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