Volunteers

Volunteer opportunities

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge views volunteers as a valuable resource to staff and clients and works hard to ensure that volunteers have meaningful and fulfilling assignments, have adequate supervision and are treated in a respectful manner. Volunteers shall agree to actively perform their duties to the best of their ability and to adhere to the policies and procedures of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge. Download a volunteer application below.

You can make a difference in our community, change the life of a Catholic Charities client, and transform your own life, too! Volunteer today with one of these great opportunities:

Share with us your skills and interests like

Videography and photography
Graphic design, writing and promotions
Basic handyman skills and construction
Property and lawn maintenance
Childcare during classes
Office help

Support clients by

Building a wheelchair ramp
Cooking a meal for pregnant, homeless women
Preparing tax returns
Mentoring a job-seeker
Tutoring children after school
Teaching a life skill to clients
Helping out at an event, like our Thanksgiving dinner for refugees

Sign up for

The Community Comes together for Christmas
Operation Rice Bowl
CROP Hunger Walk

Program specific opportunities:

Refugee Resettlement—Refugees arrive in this country with the clothes on their backs and a thirst for freedom. You can help them on the way to achieving the American Dream!

Ongoing support to a refugee

Learning English
Looking for work or employed
Struggling in school or college
Parenting children
Adjusting to life in the US

Teach refugees about

Apartment living and homemaking
Budgeting and banking
US culture
Driving and biking “rules of the road”
Car and bike maintenance
Personal safety
Public transportation
Shopping

Help our refugee resettlement staff

Interpreting for clients
Prepare a meal for a newly arriving refugee
Donations pickup and delivery
Sort donations and record inventory
Apartment setup and cleaning
Transportation for refugees to orientation, appointments and the grocery
Recruit other volunteers and donors
Document our work and refugee’s stories using your video, photography and/or writing skills

Disaster Volunteers needed

Catholic Charities has geared up its Disaster Operations team, assessing needs in every parish in our diocese as well as working with our sister agencies in South Louisiana. While we don't know exactly what is going to happen, one thing is certain--we're going to need volunteers. We don't know how many, what they will be doing, or where the work is needed--but we're going to need your help. How about signing up in advance of the need. Click here for a form. Fill it out and fax it to 225-336-8745 or click here to email. Questions? Call Lisa Lee at 225-336-8700. We'll keep the applications on file until we need them. Thank you and God bless.

Student volunteers needed

Do you need service hours or just want to have an awesome volunteer experience? Helping out at Catholic Charities is easy.

1. Click here for a list of volunteer opportunities. Find something that you think that you can do and contact the person listed.

2. Download and fill out the attached student volunteer form, have mom or dad sign it and bring it with you to your volunteer assignment.

3. Make sure that you bring your school's reporting form so you can get credit for your service hours.

Any questions? Click here to send an email or call Lisa Lee at 225-336-8700.

Apply to Help!

Volunteers are recruited and welcomed without regard to faith, race, ethnicity, marital status or condition in life. The process to become a volunteer with CCDBR is simple. Download and complete the volunteer application and return it either in person to: 1900 S. Acadian Thruway Baton Rouge, LA. by mail to: P. O. Box 1688, Baton Rouge, LA 70821 by fax to: 225-336-8745. Questions? Contact Lisa Lee at 225-336-8700 or email her here.

Volunteer Application

You'll then be contacted to discuss our current volunteer opportunities. However, if no current opportunities will work for you right now, we'll keep your application on file and contact you as other opportunities arise.

If you accept a long-term volunteer position with CCDBR, you will be asked to attend a short Orientation, which will explain the scope of services offered by CCDBR and the Code of Professional Conduct to which all staff and volunteers adhere. Reference checks and criminal background checks will be processed for volunteers working with children and other vulnerable populations.

The life we change may be your own.

Other ways you can help

Other opportunities are available. Contact Lisa Lee at 225-336-8770 or Click here to send an email.

Refer people in need of help.
Give financial assistance in the form of cash, stocks, real estate, etc.
Remember CCDBR in your will or as a memorial intention.
Donate furniture, vehicles and household items.
Sponsor a refugee family.
Offer a job to a client in need.
Promote the good works of CCDBR in the community.
Start or join a social responsibility program in your church.
Pray for our clients, staff and others touched by our programs.

Episcopal teachers give back

By CHANTE DIONNE WARREN, Advocate staff writer

Published: Aug 8, 2009 - Page: 4B

Episcopal High School teachers put their lesson plans aside Friday to roll up their sleeves and paint, serve meals, sort boxed food and visit elderly residents.

“It’s an opportunity to lead by example for our students,” said Michael Davis, upper school math teacher who volunteered to paint and do office work at Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge.