Medical / Health

Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteering at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

If you decide to work directly with patients then you would :

• Play board games with the patient
• Reading to them (needs 10 hours of training)
• Help in hospital playrooms (sometimes at their bedside)

If you decide to volunteer outside of the hospital you can:

• Start an online fundraising page
• Create a fundraising event

Volunteer Requirements must be:

• 15 years old
• 18 years old to work directly with patients
• Good mental health and physical
• Need to communicate in English
• Need to volunteer one 3-4 hour shifts for 8 weeks as a patients or family escort

Commitment needed would be:

• Need to complete 100 hours in less than six months of the service
• Need to go to training,testing and orientations for each volunteer

Personal Interview and Competency Test Completion:

• Related to Confidentiality Policy
• Work with hospitalized patients

Health Clearance Examination includes:

• 2 vaccinations for measles, mumps, and rubella  given as a child for people born after 1957, or one MMR received after the age of 17
• TB skin test for tuberculosis
• Alcohol and Drug screening

Volunteer Uniform:

• Need to buy and wear a uniform that’s the price of $15

Before you volunteer you need to schedule a completion of:

• Purchase of a volunteer uniform
• Two-hour patient care orientation by the Child Life Department
• Health Clearance of the Employee Health Services Department
• Three-hour General Orientation
• Personal interview with the Volunteer Coordinator

Contact Them:

Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Volunteer Department
4650 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
United States

Phone: 323-361-2371