Hospice volunteers assist families who are caring for a terminally ill loved one at home. Volunteers may stay with the patient for brief periods, care for children, run errands, and help support the family in a variety of other ways.
To learn more about becoming a JSSA Hospice volunteer - please call 
301-816-2650 or send an 
email inquiry. Learn more about 
JSSA's Hospice
Transitions Volunteers is a totally volunteer-based service providing an enhanced quality of life to patients and their families living with life-threatening illnesses. Living with a serious illness can be overwhelming, both emotionally and logistically. Transitions is a free ree, nationally recognized program designed to help people living with serious illness and their families cope with the challenges they face. Specially trained Transition volunteers can ease a family's situation by providing companionship, emotional support, help with errands and shopping, respite for caregiveres. The Transitions coordinator can enhance volunteer support by providing information and linkage to local community services, home visits and telephone check-in calls and sometimes, just a listening ear. Any individual in the community - whether they live at home, in an assisted living facility, or in a skilled nursing facility - who has a serious, life-threatening illness or may be undergoing medical treatment is eligible for Transitions volunteer services. There is no cost to the individual or family as this is a community funded program.
To learn more about Transitions services or to donate your time as a volunteer - please call 301-816-2681 or send an email inquiry
Jewish Chaplaincy Services support
Jewish Chaplaincy Services (JCS), through its pastoral counselors and dedicated team of volunteers provides compassionate pastoral care, counseling, visitation and crisis intervention for Jews who are not affiliated with a synagogue or rabbi. JCS also provides pastoral care and rabbinic counseling in any setting to HIV-positive individuals, people living with AIDS and their families. Care is provided in a variety of settings including hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, and prisons.
To learn more about JCS services or to donate your time as a volunteer - please call 301-230-7294 or send an email inquiry
Holiday basket deliveries
Holiday Basket Teams deliver holiday packages of food and other items at Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Thanksgiving. Deliveries take place on a Sunday a week or two before the holiday begins. Volunteers pick up the baskets from JSSA’s main office in Rockville, and take them to families in need who are awaiting their arrival. This is a wonderful volunteer project for young families who want their children to experience volunteering.
To learn more about becoming a JSSA Holiday Basket deliverer- please call 301-881-3700 or send an email inquiry.
Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) support
JVS offers a wide range of volunteer opportunities throughout JSSA's office locations. You can help people searching for new careers in many different ways:
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Career Resource Center Attendant
File job postings, assist clients with computer skills, clerical support to counselors.
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Assistant to Employment Specialist (research and post job openings)
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Computer Coach (assist people with disabilities to develop computer skill)
To learn more about JVS volunteer opportunities- please call 301-587-9666 or send an email inquiry. Learn more about JVS services.
Office and administrative support
Office Volunteers answer telephones, prepare mailings, compile information, and perform other administrative tasks. Some office volunteers make a weekly commitment; others are on call for special projects, such as preparing workshop information packets or creating a database. Office volunteers are needed and welcome in JSSA offices in Rockville and Gaithersburg. There is no minimum time commitment, and volunteer time is extremely flexible.
To learn more about JSSA office volunteer opportunities- please call 301-816-2639 or send an email inquiry.
Newcomer Resettlement Services support
JSSA’s Newcomer Resettlement program provides intensive resettlement services to refugees who come to the Washington area from the former Soviet Union. The Newcomer Resettlement staff work closely with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and with local Jewish agencies, schools, synagogue groups, and individual volunteers to help ease the transition for émigrés into a new homeland, culture, and way of life.
You can help newly arrived refugees through the following volunteer opportunities:
English tutors: adults improve and study English and citizenship preparation in their own homes once a week. Training provided.
Attorneys: volunteer attorneys provide pro bono legal help in a variety of areas and specialties on an as-needed basis."Project Citizenship a joint effort to help refugees in their quest to become US citizens
Doctors/Dentists/Health Professionals: Volunteer doctors & dentists join a medical/dental panel and provide free initial consultation and services to newcomers.
Accountants: help newcomers with tax preparation and consultations. Yearly Income Tax Seminar.
Synagogues: are welcome to "adopt" newcomer families, thus ensuring them a place to go for Shabbat and religious services.
To learn more about JSSA's Newcomer Resettlement volunteer opportunities- please call 301-770-5120 or send an email inquiry Learn more about Newcomer Resettlement.
Bombe Chest Thrift Shop retail sales support
Bombe Chest volunteers staff JSSA's antique resale thrift shop on Connecticut Avenue in Woodley Park. The profits from this all-volunteer store go directly to JSSA to subsidize services for families in greatest need. Every year, the store earns more than $40,000 for the Agency. Volunteers are asked to make a weekly time commitment.
To learn more about JSSA's Bombe Shop volunteer opportunities- please call 202-387-7293 or send an email inquiry.
To send a general inquiry about JSSA volunteer opportunities please call 301-881-3700 or send an email inquiry
Thank you for supporting JSSA and helping those in need in our community!
