INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

* USC/Norris Cancer Hospital needs volunteers to provide extra support and encouragement to cancer patients and their families during treatment. Services include greeting patients and visitors, delivering the morning paper, working in the gift shop, helping admit and discharge patients and serving as a docent conducting tours. An orientation will be held today, from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch is provided. Reservations required. Information: Eleanor Ellrott, (323) 865-3169.

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* Komen Los Angeles County Race for the Cure needs volunteers to distribute entry information around Los Angeles County and to assist on site at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on race day, Nov. 4. The Race for the Cure benefits the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Information: (626) 577-2700.

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* Century City Hospital needs volunteers with good verbal and interpersonal skills to join its Ambassador Program. Duties include providing personal assistance and information to patients. A Volunteer Open House will be held Oct. 12 at 2:30 p.m. Information, (310) 533-6211, Ext. 5222.

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* California Family Health Council will offer a training session Oct. 10 at 6 p.m. for volunteers who would like to inform community groups about family planning, teenage sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS. Information: (213) 368-4401.

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* American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles needs volunteers to install telephones for Lifeline, its emergency response service, and to staff booths and exhibits that provide information about the Red Cross. Information: (213) 739-5246.

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Information for this column should be submitted typed and double-spaced to Involvement Opportunities, Health, Los Angeles Times, 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.