Calling All Warm Hearts
& Helping Hands!
Volunteer Opportunities with Suffolk AHRC

Throughout our chapter there are a variety of volunteer opportunities to
appeal to people of varied ages, interests, talents and ambitions. Some offer
valuable experience working directly with children and adults who are
enrolled in an AHRC program.
Teenagers who require community service credit are welcome to volunteer
in a number of areas.
Join our family by filling out this quick volunteer application form or the
ways you can enhance people's lives, as well as your own!
call the call the Community Affairs at (631) 585-0100. Read on to find out
just some the Community Affairs at (631) 585-0100. Read on to find out just
some of the ways you can enhance people's lives, as well as your own!
the ways you can enhance people's lives, as well as your own!
Assistant chaperone – Be that extra pair of eyes and hands during
community outings and on medical appointments.*
Business Advisory Committee – Volunteers business people share
their expertise, contacts and resources to market AHRC’s business
enterprises.
Candlelight Ball and Golf Committees – Members are responsible
for the success of these two major fund raising events.
Bingo – Chapter operates a smoke-free Friday night Bingo game, and
occasional weekend day games in Melville.
Gift Shop – AHRC Gift Shops stock a variety of inexpensive gift
items, novelties and sundries that appeal to AHRC staff and adult
program participants. Volunteers assist customers in making
purchases, tend the cash register, price and merchandising.
2 locations: AHRC, 2900 Veterans Memorial Hwy; 55 Crossways East
Road, Bohemia.
Open: Weekdays, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m *
Caring Friends of Westhampton Beach – A group whose objective is
to provide and support leisure activities for adult participants
attending AHRC’s Westhampton Beach Day Program Center.
Activities include a formal dinner-dance; picnic, holiday party. The
Group raises funds to support their activities through plant sales at
the Westhampton facility and by participating in the chapter’s
Holiday Crafts Sales.
Friends – For those adults who reside in AHRC residences and no
longer have family who visit, a friend is a special person. A friend
visits, remembers holidays and birthdays, is someone to talk with, to
go to lunch and a movie with, etc.*
Mother’s Group - A fund raising/social group of moms with school-
age children. They coordinate fund raisers such as holiday gift
wrapping and spring candy sales throughout the various chapter
locations.