Long-Term Opportunities
We could not do all we do without volunteer assistance.  Following are some long-term volunteer partner positions that we are often looking to fill:

Clothing Room Assistants

• Help sort and distribute donations to individuals and families in the community as you volunteer in one of our two clothing rooms. 
• Times Offered:  Monday – Friday 9-5pm
• Commitment: Anywhere from once a week to once a month for at least 4 months.

Champa House Childcare

• Help care for babies and toddlers at Champa House while their mom’s work and go to school.
• Times offered:  daytime and evening shifts available depending on need.
• Commitment: anywhere from once a week to once a month for at least 6 months.

Adult Mentors

• Support a man or woman in the New Life Program through a mentoring relationship as they take steps toward rehabilitation and self-sufficiency. 
• Times offered:  flexible.
• Commitment:  meet min. 3x a month for at least 6 months. 

Tutor an Adult

• The residents in our New Life Program both at The Crossing and Champa House are always in need of tutors to help in our Learning and Education Center as they earn their GED, or take college level courses. 
• Times offered: Monday – Friday 9-8:00pm.
• Commitment:  once a week for at least 4 months.

“Save our Youth” Mentor

• Develop a supportive mentor relationship with youth (ages 10 –18). 
• Times offered: flexible
• Commitment: initial 3 hour training, then a couple hours with the youth 1x a week for at least 1 year.

For long term opportunities at our Harvest Farm facility in Wellington, Colorado, contact Eddy Hopkins at ehopkins@denrescue.org or 970.568.9803

All long-term volunteers must be 18 years of age and are required to fill out an application that includes an interview process, and background check.  You can fill out the long-term volunteer application online Click here. Please contact Chris Richardson at 303.953.3956 for additional information or with any questions.

Short-Term Opportunities
We serve three meals a day, seven days a week at two facilities and have several volunteer shifts that assist in serving meals.

Serve a Meal – Kitchen Volunteers
At our downtown Lawrence Street Shelter, located at 1130 Park Ave. West, we have four serving shifts available: 5:30 a.m. – 6:45 a.m., 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.  All volunteers for the breakfast shift must be at least 18 years old.  For the 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. shifts, the minimum age is 13 with adult supervision.  For the 4:30 p.m. shift, which is a shift used primarily to prepare for the later meal, the minimum age is 10 with adult supervision.

Our new facility, located at 6090 Smith Road is called The Crossing and provides housing for the men going through our long-term rehabilitation program as well as transitional housing for families.  We have three serving shifts available at The Crossing: 5:45 am -- 7:30 am; 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.; and 5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.  For all shifts the minimum age for volunteers is 10 with adult supervision.

*We can schedule groups of up to 10 people per shift.  If you are interested in serving with us at either facility, please sign up online Click here or call the Volunteer Department at 303.953.3955 if you have any other questions.

Clinic Volunteers
Looking for help at the clinic
We are in need of the following volunteers in our clinic at the Lawrence Street Shelter: Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, Dentists, and Chiropractors. Contact Chris at 303.953.3956 or by e-mail to volunteer. 

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Volunteer & Donor Comments

“A comment about volunteering; if anyone is vacillating between yes or no, just do it! Because this place is awesome! There are so many great programs through the Denver Rescue Mission, their methods and their results, the caring people who work here with those affected by this or that – is just amazing. I don’t know of any better place you could spend a break or a time that you have free to reconnect both with people that have issues you many not, and with God – and what he does through people here.” -Patrick from Vanderbilt University

"I will never view poverty as someone else's problem again.. My cup runs over!"-Patricia

"The Rescue Mission has been a place for me to reflect on my own life in a way that has been invaluable. I am proud to say that next year will be my fourteenth year working monthly there. I have learned a great deal from the men and women I have met there over the years, lessons that I will keep with me for a lifetime!"-Gaku

"....There I was, a Presbyterian Republican, helping a couple of Jewish Democrats serve ham to the homeless on Christmas eve....I submit to you, if we could put aside our differences....it is still very possible for all of us....to work together constructively, work together amicably, and accomplish good things for the people of Colorado. So let's get busy and do it!" -Senate President, Jon Andrews, Session Opening Day 1/7/04 remarks