Opportunities in Hartford and Middletown
Contact: Sister Sheila Casey at 808-2105 or scasey@mercyhousingct.org.
(Volunteers are interviewed and must sign confidentiality agreements when they are accepted.)
 Meals
Provide, Cook and Serve
- Friendship Center, 118 Main St., Hartford
- Dining room at St. Elizabeth House, 118 Main St., Hartford
- Dining room at Shepherd Home, 12 Bow Lane, Middletown
Every day we turn to our wonderful volunteers to help serve breakfast and lunch, Monday through Saturday, at our community meals program in the Friendship Center and in the dining rooms of St. Elizabeth House and Shepherd Home seven days a week.
Buying some or all of the food, as well as cooking it and serving it is a great help to Mercy Housing and Shelter. However, if buying food is not possible, cooking and serving is always welcome. We especially need lunch to be provided and served on Saturdays at the Friendship Center, where about 250 to 300 people a day have their meals.
Volunteers are also needed to buy food and cook and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner for the 58 people who live in our transitional housing programs at St. Elizabeth House, and 70 who live
in Shepherd Home. If you provide the food, you may pick the menu. Our cooks are there to help with preparing the food and to make menu suggestions. If buying some or all of the food is not possible, cooking and serving is always welcome.
Requirements: Groups must be 4 to 6 people, over the age of 16, or 15 with adult supervision.
Print out volunteer opportunities and a volunter application
Below are a downloadable fact sheet on volunteer opportunities and a volunteer application. To volunteer at St. Elizabth House, you may fax the application to Sister Sheila Casey at (860) 560-4111 or mail it to Sister Sheila Casey, St. Elizabeth House, 118 Main St., Hartford, CT 06106. To volunteer at Shepherd Home, you may fax the application to Roxanne O'Brienat (860) 344-0766 or mail to Roxanne O'Brien, Shepherd Home, 112 Bow Lane, Middletown, CT 06457.
Life Skills Volunteers
Our Job/Life Skills Resource Center needs is volunteers to help teach life skills, such as teaching a knitting class, explaining how to balance a checkbook, etc. These positions are flexible and may be easily worked into your schedule.
 Requirements: High School graduate with appropriate experience, training and education.
Other opportunities:
Pick up and drop off donations. We are in need of someone with muscles and a truck who will pick up and drop off donations when we can’t get to it.
Requirements: Valid driver’s license and insurance.
Organize clothes closet in Friendship Center. We need people to help sort, and fold and hang donated clothing.
Requirements: Must be able to stand on your feet for a good period of time.
Volunteer Profiles
Volunteers from Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C., paint a women’s lounge at St. Elizabeth House in Hartford. 7/09
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