02.16.2021 StudentsCare will soon be launching a mobile app, which will be available exclusively to StudentsCare’s student volunteers in both the Google Play and Apple app stores by next month. The goal of the app is to provide its volunteers with training resources and supplemental information...
02.16.2021 Keeping kids occupied during the pandemic has been a challenge for parents everywhere! But, StudentsCare’s college student volunteers are trained to keep kids smiling in even the most challenging situations– like alone in the hospital. When visiting with patients in the hospital, StudentsCare volunteers are trained...
02.16 2021 Alongside working with their partnering children’s hospitals to continue supporting pediatric patients virtually, StudentsCare has also been teaming up with fellow nonprofit organizations to broaden their reach and identify more patients to serve. Their most recent partnership has been with HopeCam– an organization that donates...
02.16.2021 It has been one year since StudentsCare volunteers have visited their local hospital buddies in person, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since last March, StudentsCare’s program staff has discovered new and creative ways to engage volunteers virtually and still make an impact!Holtz Children’s Hospital in...
Lorena Fernandez began volunteering with StudentsCare two years ago as a Hospital Buddy at Dell Children’s Medical Center. Last April, when StudentsCare launched a new buddy program for seniors isolated due to Covid, Lorena was one of the first to jump at the opportunity to...
In June, Daniela Loo, a pre-med junior at the University of Miami, connected with Luis, a 92-year-old man affiliated with United HomeCare in Miami, Florida. Over just a few short months, what you might expect to be an unlikely friendship, turned into a beautiful one. Over...
Volunteers give back with the hope that they will help others, but Delia Chen’s experience with her Pediatric and Senior Buddies have helped her too. Delia shared that her senior buddy, Carol, gives great advice and often reminds her to take care of herself too!...
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