Guardianship/Conservatorship Services: Guardianship/Conservatorship Services of LSS is court-appointed to respond to the personal, medical, and financial needs of vulnerable adults.

In a few hours a month, you can enrich the live of these adults who because of age, illness, or disability can no longer be responsible for themselves.

• Visit a frail, elderly person or an individual with a disability twice a month - at your convenience.

• Take a new friend into the community, e.g. go for a walk, have lunch, go shopping.

•  Assist a client with purchases of small personal items or special treats.

• Help someone with special needs learn: to manage personal funds, to find their way around the neighborhood, to play a game or do a craft.

You'll be enriched, too.

Qualifications: 

• 18 or older 

• Heart that cares 

• Hands that serve

To volunteer, e-mail Volunteer Specialists at Guardianship/Conservatorship Services: mqualset@lssmn.org (Mankato), lperrett@lssmn.org (Duluth) or vhauser@lssmn.org (Twin Cities metro).

Home and Community Living: LSS strives to enrich quality of life for people with developmental disabilities in 80 community homes operated by LSS across Minnesota. Here's how you can volunteer:

• Befriend an adult with disabilities. Visit them, make them feel special with a card on their birthday and just be a friend.

• Spruce up the grounds of a home in the spring and help rake the lawn, trim bushes and plant flowers.

• Paint building trim on homes or give fresh coats of paint in bedrooms.

• Help maintain a garden with vegetables or flowers.

• Brighten a person's room and sew curtains. 

To volunteer, contact the LSS Office of Cooperative Ministries at church@lssmn.org