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.