We are actively looking for passionate youth and adults to help with our community mobilization efforts as it relates to violence prevention in the Truckee community.
Join us as a trusted volunteer in one of our four program areas: Hunger Relief, Crisis Intervention & Prevention, Family Support & Community Engagement, and Mediation & Legal Assistance.
Volunteers from beginners to Master Gardeners, from ages 10-100 with smiling faces are encouraged to come work with us for an hour or a day. Tasks range from harvesting vegetables for donations, pruning flowers, planting seeds, transplanting seedlings and site maintenance to helping to organize our fundraising events.
The California Trail Center seeks volunteers to demonstrate traditional Great Basin Indian lifeways, both indoors and outdoors. Examples include Indian beadwork, traditional Native foods, and basket making.
The education program at the Trail Center is wide and varied. Some volunteer educators teach students about pioneers and the California Trail. Others utilize our 40 acre site to focus on outdoor environmental education programs, and teach students about Great Basin biology and geology.
The Trail Center also seeks volunteers to share their unique pioneer or mountain man skill. Just a few examples include: Operating a spinning wheel, performing traditional music in the pioneer camp, or cooking fresh biscuits over a campfire. During California Trail Days, reenactors have the opportunity to interact with hundreds of visitors in the span…
YAH host multiple special events throughout the year. For each of these, we usually have a need for volunteers to assist with setup and cleanup. We also have an information table set up at events that needs to be staffed. And a variety of odd-jobs that sometimes takes less than an hour to complete, but…
Assist with Special Events and Fundraising.
Hospice volunteers are a unique gift to the hospice and to the patients. Volunteers commit to holding the hand of a patient when they are alone, laughing with patients and loved ones during moments of reminiscence and providing a shoulder to cry on when caregivers need support or patients need a friend.
Volunteer with us to help facilitate one of our special events.