Volunteers
Our volunteers give generously of their time, talent and
energy to enable Whitman-Walker Clinic to continue to provide high-quality
services to our community, to people living with HIV/AIDS, and to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community throughout the D.C. area. The Clinic has
approximately 800 volunteers who serve in a variety of areas, donating tens of
thousands of hours a year valued at millions of dollars.
Whitman-Walker Clinic’s volunteer resources program recruits
and trains volunteers. We always need volunteers who can work daytime hours, and
opportunities are available in our main facility in Northwest Washington,
our center in Northern Virginia, and
There are volunteer opportunities in the following areas:
- AIDS support services offer primary medical care, mental health
and social services to people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Legal services enlists volunteer attorneys to help clients
with HIV-related legal matters such as wills, child custody arrangements,
insurance and discrimination. Attorneys and others help clients apply for
public entitlement programs.
- Medical volunteers
provide services such as HIV antibody testing and counseling, phlebotomy,
dentistry and assistance in the pharmacy.
Volunteer physicians, nurses and physicians’ assistants work with
staff to provide high-quality, compassionate care to clients in our HIV or
GLBT clinics.
- Health promotion and disease prevention services
provide public education on
AIDS-related topics. Volunteers provide HIV prevention information to
callers over the phone and conduct AIDS education and training programs
for community organizations, businesses, churches and health fairs. Volunteers also lead safer sex workshops
and conduct community outreach.
- Addiction services volunteers provide support to clients in treatment and
after care programs in one-on-one or group therapy settings.
- Lesbian Services Program volunteers serve as peer counselors, support
group leaders, medical providers, health educators and client services
volunteers. They help with health days and the planning and implementation
of services provided to lesbians, bisexual women and transgender people in
the metropolitan area.
- Behavioral health volunteers help
with various services that are HIV- and non-HIV related. Volunteers
provide peer counseling and referrals to the GLBT community. Behavioral Health Services also offer a
wide range of support groups and referrals to professional therapists and
counselors.
- Development volunteers help raise funds by planning and
coordinating special events and other projects. They provide support to
the AIDS Walk and other events.
- Capital Pride volunteers help
plan events that
take place throughout the week of pride in June. The Capital Pride planning
committee meets regularly throughout the year to raise money, brainstorm
and handle logistics leading up to the Capital Pride parade and street
festival, among other events. These volunteers are also critical to the
execution of all Capital Pride events.
- On-call daytime administrative volunteers help various offices around Whitman-Walker
ClInic with special projects and a variety of general administrative tasks
(fielding phone calls, filing, photocopying, billing insurance companies,
assembling packets, entering data, registering clients for Clinic services
and helping staff members with special projects.)
- On-call interpreters are needed to provide language interpretation.