Opportunities for Volunteering

Staff Builders Hospice, 21243 Ventura Blvd., Suite 118, Woodland Hills, is looking for volunteers to assist terminally ill patients and their families. Duties include helping with household chores and reading to the patients. For information, call (800) 334-7859.

The Valley Trauma Center needs volunteers to staff its 24-hour crisis hotline, which provides sexual assault crisis services in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. Training is provided. For information, call (818) 772-0196.

Encino Lodge of B’nai B’rith is seeking volunteers to pick up and deliver food to needy and homeless people in the Valley, public and private schools, lunch programs and food banks. Volunteers are required to pick up food at bagel shops, bakeries and grocery stores between 6 and 8 a.m. For information, call (818) 788-4230 or (818) 992-7422.