Get Involved
Volunteer
Some of this needs a license. Most of it needs someone reliable who will keep turning up.
Clinical roles
For licensed practitioners — physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, counselors, social workers, pharmacists.
- Assessment and treatment sessions
- Street outreach with the teams
- Counseling and group facilitation
- Medication review
Current licensure and credentialing verification required.
Non-clinical roles
No medical background needed.
- Prairie maintenance days alongside the trainees
- Transport — driving patients to appointments, which is our single biggest practical gap
- Supply sorting and drive coordination
- Administrative help and data entry
- Skills-based help: legal, accounting, trades, IT
What we ask
Consistency over intensity. A volunteer who comes monthly for two years is worth far more to this population than a large one-off group day — because the people we serve have had a great many one-off interventions and very little continuity.
- A background check for any role with patient contact
- Confidentiality training, and adherence to it
- A commitment you can actually keep, however small
What we ask you not to do
- Do not photograph patients or people encountered on outreach
- Do not post the location of anyone sleeping outside
- Do not give clinical advice outside your scope, however well meant
- Do not promise anything on our behalf — a broken promise costs a patient more here than no promise at all
Get started
Email info@valormedica.org with what you would like to do and roughly how much time you have. For prairie and outreach days, tell us which weekends work.
Cannot volunteer right now?
A monthly gift does something a volunteer day cannot — it funds the continuity this work depends on.
What is genuinely useful
- Outreach support — carrying supplies, logistics, and being a second person on a team.
- Prairie restoration work, seasonally, with no experience required.
- Administrative and documentation help, which is less visible and unlocks more care than most clinical volunteering.
- Skilled trades and vehicle maintenance.
- Licensed clinicians willing to take a shift.
What we ask
Reliability over intensity. A person who turns up monthly for a year is worth considerably more than a large group once. For anything involving direct contact with residents or outreach, we require a background check and a short orientation, which exists to protect the people we serve rather than to screen you.
What volunteering here is not
It is not an opportunity to photograph people at their lowest point, and it is not a way to preach. Residents and people met on outreach are not an audience. If that is a problem, this is not the right place to volunteer, and it is better to know that now.