Volunteer Form, OPG

Welcome to the Office of Public Guardian (OPG), the state agency responsible for providing public guardianship and conservatorship services to incapacitated adults without family or friends.

The OPG is accepting applications for volunteers needed weekly or monthly in the following areas: administrative work, fund-raising, and visitors for the wards (clients) and leadership.

Please fill out the application as fully as possible.
On an as-needed basis (every 3-6 weeks) OPG will review applications and set up training workshops for volunteer positions. Unfortunately, we cannot train all applicants; if we are interested we will contact you. You are welcome to re-submit if you have additional or new information.
Your application will be kept on file for one year. If we don't contact you immediately, we may later! Please resubmit after one year if you are still interested.
Training is REQUIRED for all volunteers, whether you have experience or not. OPG's philosophy and approach are different from any other state agencies. The duties may differ as well.
Training takes 1-2 weeks. Sessions are two hours once a week, and are at no charge. One must commit to completing the training course before one is accepted for the training.
Volunteer selections, as with selections for training workshops, are made according to what OPG needs, and what the potential volunteer proposes to do. No one is guaranteed a position once they have completed the training. Only when time or duty slots open up, do we look for replacements.
As positions open up, they are announced to the OPG volunteers, and those who have completed training are free to submit a letter of interest demonstrating the kind of position they would propose to do.
If you are selected, you become the newest member of the OPG!

Thank you for you interest in the OPG!

PERSONAL INFORMATION first name :
last name :
address : city : state : zip code : phone number : work phone : email :

How long have you lived in the area?

EDUCATION school : degree : school dates : major :

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE position : duties : dates : languages spoken/read

DESIRED POSITIONS

Indicate volunteer positions that interest you in order: most interesting (1) to least interesting (10)

administrative :
public affairs :
office/clerical :
visiting clients :
events :
marketing :
fundraising :

OTHER

What qualities and/or skills do you possess that would benefit the OPG and the community?

Why do you want to volunteer for the OPG?

If you have a specific idea for a media program, special feature or public affairs program, please describe it as fully as possible.

Other relevant information or experience (special skills, travel, research, community involvement)