Volunteer
Volunteers are always welcome. What ever your interest, please call the toll free number
(800) SIDS-FLA (800-743-7352)
Local Community
- Peer Contacting
- Healthy Start Coalition member
- Community Action Group member
- Health Fair booths in local stores
- Contact with local County Health Department
- Coordinate Macy/Burdines After-Thanksgiving Fundraiser
- Make quilt square for local or regional quilt
Regional
- Education – Teaching Back to Sleep class to High schools, Day care providers, churches, health care professionals, EMTs, Firefighters, Police – content already developed
- Employee Giving Campaigns (CHC/CFC/FSECC) – attend campaigns meetings and/or kick-off festivities for a local, state, or federal employees
- Support group – form new group or restart a group with health professional/social worker who has support group or facilitator skills
- Quilt – coordinate making of a regional quilt and coordinate squares (quilt days to make squares)
- Fund Raisers – golf tournaments, fashion shows, wine tasting
Statewide
- Newsletter – Write article, poem, personal story; help with printing and/or mailing
- Letter writing – Writing campaigns to specialty organizations (funeral directors, funeral homes, hospitals, nurses, and others)
- Southern Women’s Show – Coordinate yearly event in Orlando or Jacksonville (estimate 20-30 thousand visitors at each site – utilize local college or hospital nurses to help with volunteering at booth
- Attend board meetings – serve as a committee chair, assist with leadership council with CHC; serve as a board member or officer
- Computer support – SIDS server; website development; standardize forms; develop platforms for board members, blog posting on Florida SIDS blog
- Memory plaque – solicit names, printing, coordinate use at events
Become Involved
Would you like to be involved with us? Fill out the form below and tell us how you would like to be involved. We will get back to you right away!