2026-2027 Fellow -Community Care Aide- Joseph's House

The volunteer will assume a wide range of responsibilities at Joseph's House, a medical respite/transitional housing program in the District of Columbia, where formerly homeless men and women living with HIV/AIDS are welcomed as friends and cared for with skillful compassion and respect. Volunteers provide in-person support across multiple disciplines in the house.

-Assisting the nursing staff with residents’ personal care, including direct care duties such as administering medications, bathing, and repositioning bed bound residents.
-Providing residents and community members with companionship, such as sharing a meal together, planning individual and group activities, sitting vigil with a person who is coming to the end of their life, or simply taking the time to be in conversation with residents about their lives.
-Enhancing residents’ and community members’ quality of life by accompanying them to medical appointments, picking up medications, and assisting with grocery shopping. 
-Supporting Joseph’s House through cooking house meals and performing ongoing housekeeping duties. 
-Working with Joseph’s House staff to provide engaging activities, field trips and events to enhance resident and community member quality of life.