Residential Volunteer

As a residential volunteer with Innisfree, individuals will experience the joys and challenges of a life-sharing community, learning to be open to new experiences, expanding their skills, and uncovering new gifts and
talents. At the core of the volunteer experience, is the building of genuine connections with coworkers as well as other community members. This fostering of community is what allows each individual to develop
genuine relationships, and promote an environment of inclusion and acceptance.

Residential Volunteers live together with coworkers in family-style homes throughout the village, providing support for the daily care, health, and emotional needs of each coworker. While some coworkers are more independent, some need more support with personal hygiene and other medical care needs.

Volunteers become part of the household, bringing warmth and sharing with their housemates the more practical responsibilities of maintaining a clean and beautiful home. Daily cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and finance management, allow the home to run smoothly and create greater opportunities for volunteers to provide ongoing support to their coworkers.

Engagement in Innisfree’s numerous therapeutic workstations is a part of daily community life. Through the meaningful and varied opportunities in the art studio, bakery, community kitchen, farm, herb and vegetable gardens, pottery, weavery, and woodshop, volunteers provide additional guidance and support to their coworkers, encouraging them to pursue their own creative passions and skill development, while having the unique opportunity to develop and learn new practical and creative skills for themselves.

Volunteers come from across the globe to serve in the community. With a broad demographic of life experiences, personal backgrounds, and cultural traditions, volunteers enrich the community through their gifts, talents, and individuality. Fully participating in the events of daily life, along with special gatherings and social events, offer unique opportunities to develop connections that can last a lifetime.