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VA Medical Center - Good Neighbor Program
The Good Neighbor Program provides socialization and safety monitoring to veterans in the community. Good Neighbor volunteers provide emotional and psychosocial support to home-bound patients and/or family within a 10-mile radius of their own home. After each visit, volunteers are able to identify safety concerns, patient receptivity, general patient condition, condition of home, special requests from patient and family, and any activities in which they engaged with the patient.
What is it?
The Good Neighbor Program provides socialization and safety monitoring to veterans in the community. Good Neighbor volunteers provide emotional and psychosocial support to home-bound patients and/or family within a 10-mile radius of their own home. After each visit, volunteers are able to identify safety concerns, patient receptivity, general patient condition, condition of home, special requests from patient and family, and any activities in which they engaged with the patient.
Who is it for?
Veterans and volunteers who live within a 10-mile radius of each other.
Why do they do it?
The Good Neighbor Program allows volunteers to fulfill their commitment to the spirit of volunteerism while staying close to home. They enjoy visiting with veterans who are homebound or lonely and are able to offer family members the opportunity to take a break from care.
Contact: Betty Acheson
Chief Voluntary Services
Telephone: 802-295-9363, ext. 5391
E-mail: elizabeth.acheson@med.va.gov
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