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Volunteer Opportunities
Below is access to various volunteer opportunities in our community that our members recommend and/or are currently involved in. Click on the purple button to access the organization's website. In addition, at the end of each description, there is a member listed who has experience with the organization. Feel free to reach out to them with any questions.
Consider Volunteering with KEENChicago and play sports and get active with kids with disabilities. This organization severs the greater Chicago area. Scheduling is flexible and they often have events in Evanston which is just a short train ride away
Contact: Christine Kouria
Sign up to be a Big Brother or Big Sister. As a Big, you'll have the opportunity to help shape a child's future for the better by inspiring positive change and empowering them to achieve what they never dreamed possible. Requires attendance at a minimum of two programs per month. Locations vary depending on match.
Contact: Molly Enzler
Almost Home Kids is an organization that provides a bridge from hospital to home through an innovative community-based care system for children with medical complexities. As a volunteer, you'll engage with children in developmentally appropriate recreational activities. Scheduling is flexible and there are shifts available 7 days a week from 10am-7pm.
Contact: Molly Enzler
Care for Real provides food, clothing, referrals, and additional services with compassion to improve the health and well-being of low-income residents. Volunteers help with packing groceries, distributing food to clients, working in the warehouse, and sorting clothing donations. Opportunities are available 7 days a week at multiple locations in the Chicago Area
Contact: Molly Enzler
Join other volunteers in your community as you sign up for various volunteer opportunities that fit with your schedule. It is very adaptable depending on your level of availability with full time to part time positions available in community service and research, and also small volunteer projects you can do based on your own schedule.
Contact: Taha Gabr
Serve as a volunteer medical advocate to ensure survivors of sexual assault aren't alone at hospitals. Volunteers are on-call to provide crisis support in emergency departments throughout Chicago. As an advocate, your role is to provide emotional support to survivors of sexual violence as well as information/resources regarding their medical and legal rights and options. 15 different partner hospitals around Chicago. Warning: Training is time intensive, but it is a really fulfilling opportunity if you are interested in advocacy work
Chicago Methodist Senior Services (CMSS) provides a continuum of services and residences to support the needs of older adults at every step of life. CMSS recruits and trains volunteers who are committed to supporting, improving, and enhancing the lives of older adults. There are a variety of volunteer opportunities available within their Senior Connections program.
Contact: Julia Walewicz
or Emma Kokolus
Contact: Skylee Ortega
Clinical Experience
Below is access to various clinical experiences in our community that our members recommend and/or are currently involved in. Click on the purple button to access the organization's website. In addition, at the end of each description, there is a member listed who has experience with the organization. Feel free to reach out to them with any questions.
Buckingham Pavilion is a senior-friendly community that is in search of CNAs that have a passion for helping others. They are an award winning facility located just a short drive away from Loyola's Lakeshore campus!
Contact: Julia Walewicz
LifeLine is a private ambulance company that employs EMTs to work on BLS and ALS Care Units. In addition, they offer opportunities to work events and fesitivals throughout the city of Chicago. Working as an EMT is a great wait to gain hands on patient care experience. In addition, LifeLine offers their own inhouse EMT course that upon graduation and receiving your license, you'll be offered a guaranteed job.
Chicago EMT Training offers a holistic and eclectic model for emergency medical education. Learn the skills to identify and manage medical illnesses and traumatic injuries. Classes are offered in the Fall, Spring, and Summer (accelerated) to obtain your EMT-B license. Chicago EMT Training is unique in that they bring in mentors from across the city who work in a wide variety of fields to help students achieve their goals.
Contact: Molly Enzler
or Jan Jaramillo
Contact: Kaitlyn McKinley
AVID CNA School is a basic nurse assisstant training program that offers 5-week BNATP, 8-week Phlebotomy, and 8-week EKG courses. Their program recognizes the importance of providing the right training to healthcare students in order for them to perform their work properly, efficiently, and safely. They are committed to producing graduates who will become excellent future providers of patient care. Classes start every 5 weeks, with AM and PM classes available. AVID also offers CPR and First Aid Classes at anytime throughout the year.
Contact: Liza Kolbunova
"I would definitely encourage EMTs to experience working on an ambulance! Whether through private companies, a hospital, or your hometown. It gives you a different perspective than hospital care and after a few months or years of experience on the ambulance, you can transfer to hospital care to also experience the ER or another department. What I also love about Lifeline specifically is I have the opportunity to work seasonally which is very rare for healthcare positions. Being an EMT, whether on the ambulance or not, will give you so many opportunities before becoming a physician and gives you a pretty good scope of practice at our level of education. You can also work for event companies or volunteer at events which allows you another completely different experience."
- Kaitlyn McKinley
RESEARCH Opportunities
Below is access to various research opportunities in our community that our members recommend and/or are currently involved in. Click on the purple button to access the organization's website. In addition, at the end of each description, there is a member listed who has experience with the organization. Feel free to reach out to them with any questions.
The Robert Louis Katz & Manne Research Institute Summer Scholars Program engages undergraduates in research pertaining to pediatric health and disease. The program's mission is to nurture early exposure to top-tier scientific inquiry and amplify interest in scientific careers, with a primary focus on advancing children's health and welfare. The 8-week program is a paid opportunity that begins on June 16th and ends on August 8th. Applications are open to undergraduate students who have completed their freshman year and are currently enrolled in the Fall 2025 term.
Applications close on Januaray 24, 2025 at midnight.
Contact: Christine Kouria
Additional Opportunities
Below is access to various opportunities in our community that our members recommend and/or are currently involved in. This includes various Loyola organizations, mission trips, study abroad opportunities, etc.
Loyola Chicago MEDLIFE is an organization that provides medicine, education, and community development for low-income families here in Chicago and around the world. There next service trip will take place in Lima Peru this January!
Contact: Karthi Thiyagarajan
VAW Global Health Alliances is a Medical Outreach Internship with Loyola University Chicago. They are currently working on forming a second medical team to travel abroad to Guatemala in Summer 2025!
Contact: Anna Gonzalez
or Jan Jaramillo
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