The Children and Women’s Health and Well-Being focus area provides volunteer opportunities focusing on providing comfort, companionship, and emotional and social support to people of all ages.

Allies in Hope

Volunteers provide educational and emotional support to low-income children living with HIV/AIDS through a traditional camp experience and provide them with a much-needed reprieve from the day-to-day realities of living with a chronic disease. Volunteers serve as counselors at the weeklong Camp Hope, a camp for children ages seven to 15 who are impacted by HIV or AIDS.

Baylor College of Medicine Teen Health Clinics

Hospital outreach volunteers support new teen mothers by visiting their bedside and delivering prepared information regarding childcare, parenting, family planning and nutrition. Volunteers are paired with newly pregnant teen moms and/or existing teen moms who need additional support and encouragement. These volunteers call the teen mothers monthly throughout the year. The placement also hosts two baby showers a year for the new moms, providing them supplies to assist them as they navigate parenthood during the celebration.

Bo’s Place

Volunteers will serve as Kitchen/Support volunteers, offering support to grieving families by setting up the potluck style meal held before grief support sessions, preparing leftover food for families to take home and tidying the kitchen. Kitchen/Support volunteers also assist with the preparation of activities used in the grief support groups and assist with the Pi Beta Phi Lending Library.

Camp For All 2U

Camp For All 2U brings daily camp activities like zip lines, fishing docks, campfires, and canoe races to children and teen’s hospital unit. Junior League volunteers will serve as counselors over “cabins” of campers, and will work with hospital staff and Camp For All 2U staff to help children complete their activities throughout the day.

Child Advocates, Inc.

Volunteers prepare Life Books for children in foster care to record pictures and details of their lives. Volunteers also work a variety of Child Advocates’ Special Projects events throughout the year, including the annual Houston Children’s Festival and hosting kid’s birthday parties.

CPR

Volunteers teach basic lifesaving skills to the general public and healthcare professionals throughout the Houston community. This course covers adult, child and infant CPR, as well as basic life support, and is currently offered at three locations – Chapelwood United Methodist Church, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and the Junior League of Houston. It is one of the only free cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training courses in Houston.

DePelchin Children’s Center

Volunteers interact with children at DePelchin’s Richmond/Sugar Land location in a variety of events on Saturdays throughout the year, including, but not limited to, Pizza/Movie Night, Career Day, Etiquette Class and special field trips. This placement provides a safe, nurturing and esteem-building environment aiming to strengthen the lives of children.

Houston Area Women’s Center

Volunteers provide a safe and nurturing environment for children in the Kids’ Night Out program while their mothers receive counseling. Additional evening volunteers mentor and care for children between the ages of five and 14 years while their mothers attend counseling at the HAWC Shelter.

Sing Along With Seniors (SAWS)

Volunteers entertain residents of senior living facilities and day centers through musical performances, sing-along shows, dance routines and fellowship. Volunteers prepare and present three themed shows each year in the fall, winter and spring.

Texas Children’s Hospital

Provisional class members provide to Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) through a variety of ways. The Library placement engages with patients and their siblings in the 11th Floor, Library by reading and doing crafts. The Care Carts placement staffs the Tea Cart providing self-care and snack items to TCH staff and the Hospitality Cart providing toiletries to patient caregivers twice a week. The Health Resource Group meets at the League building and prepares craft kits to educate and comfort young patients as well as self-care items for the Tea Cart. The Sewing placement makes sewn items to be provided to patients such as lovies, capes, and blankets. Volunteers in the Making a Mark placement assist with The Periwinkle Foundation’s Making A Mark program, which provides artistic and creative writing opportunities for children.