Northern Light Cancer Care Resource Center Volunteer

Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) and theLafayette Cancer Care Center are working collaboratively to help manage a resource center and food pantry for EMMC cancer patients and their family members. As a resource center volunteer, you may help refer patients and/or their families to various outreach and support programs, you may help family members find local accommodations, or you may sit with a patient waiting for treatment. We are looking for committed, compassionate and flexible volunteers to support the growth and continued success of this much needed and eagerly anticipated service. Specific duties are:

• Organize and ensure the resource center is stocked with resource materials
• Distribute/connect resource materials to patients and their families
• Maintain an inventory of supplies to help staff keep the resource center stocked appropriately
• Organize the non perishable and perishable food items in the food pantry.
• Label foods, discard expired food items
• Assist food distribution by putting together bags of food items customized for patients
• Maintain inventory
• Assist staff in creating food pantry storage processes
• Support needed Mondays and Fridays for approx. 2 hours