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