Home Visiting Volunteer for Newborn babies and Families
Good Beginnings of Central Vermont
Description: The purpose of the Good Beginnings program is to create a caring community which gives help to families with newborn babies. A Good Beginnings home visitor visits a family once a week for 1-2 hours for a three month period. Over this time the volunteer develops an effective and caring relationship with the parents. We aim to increase parents' ability to be good caretakers by providing basic information and modeling nurturing behaviors. Our volunteers offer families information on child development and care, health and safety concerns, and postpartum issues. Our volunteers help reduce isolation by connecting families with relevant community resources, while promoting independence and an improved self-confidence in the parents through encouragement and optimism. Monthly volunteer meetings are held to keep home visitors up to date on relevant information and learn more about ways to support newborn families.
Location: 174 River Street Montpelier, Vermont
Requirements:- A complete signed application, listing three personal references
- Complete Good Beginnings' training program (2 hours)
- Signed Confidentiality Statement
- A release for criminal Record Screening
- Ability to treat parents' lives as privateand worthy of respect in that privacy
- Ability to provide warm and consistent support and emotional back-up to a parent by visiting on a regular basis and by being an active listener.
- To act as a role model for appropriate parenting and basic life skills.
Call Lauriana Capone at (802-595-7953 or complete and submit the form below