Volunteer Orientation

Pre-Orientation Requirements

  • Submit an Application and interview with Volunteer Services
  • Authorize a background check
  • Agree to have a TB screening

Preparing You to Serve

Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care provides relief, comfort and control to more than 1,500 dying patients and their families each year.  Your presence -- either being with patients and their loved ones directly or working behind the scenes in our offices -- can change their experience.

It is an extraordinary commitment, which we meet with one of our own:  to provide the training and support you need to feel comfortable and to succeed. 

Our volunteer program begins with 22 hours of comprehensive training on what it means to work with the dying, and how we uniquely care for them at Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care.  Topics include patient care, communication, family dynamics, the dying process, bereavement, and much more. Volunteers are then mentored in the area where they choose to work. 

The commitment continues with regular continuing education. 

Click Here to access additional information about Volunteer Orientation and opportunities to serve.

"Your staff did a wonderful job.  They even arranged a 'last trip' for my son to see Star Wars.  He was a big fan, and was so happy about the trip!"
          -- Patient  family member