It’s time for Canada to celebrate our volunteers from coast-to-coast-to-coast! National Volunteer Week is April 27-May 3, 2025. At VHA Home HealthCare (VHA), volunteers enable us to touch even more lives across our community. Each individual volunteer contribution, big or small, creates momentum and has the power to influence and inspire, joining a wave of positive change.

The sharing of time, skills, empathy and creativity of volunteers shines through VHA’s Responsive Community Care programming.

Read on to meet a few of our team members and learn more about the incredible role of volunteers at our organization. Together, we’re building a future where kindness and generosity ripple out to touch lives everywhere.

Making waves through the Safer Spaces: Hoarding Support program

For people experiencing hoarding disorder, home can become an unsafe living space and present serious health risks.

Volunteers like Matheus and Erik visit clients weekly to provide support as clients declutter their homes to create safe, functional spaces and provide non-judgmental, compassionate support for those experiencing hoarding tendencies. Safer Spaces: Hoarding Support helps individuals regain control of their homes and their lives.

 

Making waves through the Connected Families: Parenting Support program

Parenting children in their first four years of life is a full-time job. Parenting while struggling with postpartum depression or other mental health or situational challenges can sometimes feel impossible.

Volunteers like Jenn visit families weekly in their home to provide peer support and relief for new parents, caring for their young children and connecting families to resources in the community.

Making waves through PPE Delivery

For VHA’s many health professionals providing essential care in the community, having easy access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), like surgical masks, gloves and eye protection, provides security and safety so they can continue to focus on delivering high quality care. PPE Delivery volunteers meet our team members in convenient community hubs throughout the neighborhoods they work in. Care providers like Colleen are especially grateful to our team of PPE Delivery volunteers for the difference they make.

During National Volunteer Week and beyond, we celebrate the impact of volunteers at VHA and across the country who are making waves to shape a Canada that is more just, connected, and hopeful for everyone.

If you are interested in learning more about how you can make waves by volunteering at VHA, please visit www.vha.ca/volunteer to get in touch.