INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Pasadena Mental Health Center needs volunteers to answer its help line and counsel patients in person. A 30-week training starts in January. Information: Coni Lamarque, (626) 798-0907.
* Daybreak Day Center and Shelter in Santa Monica, which serves mentally ill homeless women, needs volunteers for its fund-raising Resource Board. Information: Roxann Smith, (310) 264-6646.
* Assisted Home Hospice, serving Ventura County and the San Fernando Valley, needs volunteers to work with terminally ill patients and their families. Information: Amanda Graham Sillars, (818) 894-8117.
* Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles needs volunteers to work with terminally ill patients and their families in its hospice program. Information: Lisa Nagy, (310) 423-9532.
* Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in Los Angeles, which records textbooks on tape for sight-impaired and learning-disabled students, needs volunteers knowledgeable in math, science, computers, economics or medicine. Training is provided. Information: (800) RFB-TEXT.
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