Community volunteers

Community volunteers at a Project Access NOW event

 What can you do?

There are lots of dynamic opportunities at Project Access NOW. We can work with you to provide a rewarding volunteer experience, regardless of your schedule. We need volunteers with all kinds of different backgrounds, skills and levels of experience. As we expand to serve more patients and provide them access to quality healthcare, we have a variety of openings:

• Pharmacy Bridge: Medication Assistance Program, Volunteer Pharmacists, Patient Data Entry
• Care Coordination: Program Assistant, Cancer Coordination Group Facilitation, Patient Appointment Scheduling, Investigative Resource Projects
• General Operations: Receptionist, Interpreter, Patient Entry/Exit Surveys, Billing, Document Management and Archiving, Administrative Assistance, Durable Medical Equipment Facilitation, Provider Volunteer Credential Verification, Recruitment and Orientation
• Resource Development: Volunteer Program Assistant, Event Planning Assistant, Public Relations / Marketing / Social Media Facilitation, Grant Research and Writing

 Helpful documents

 Community Volunteer Application

 Fact Sheet

If you believe that access to healthcare is a basic human right, Project Access NOW is the right place for you.

The Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area is home to more than 300,000 uninsured people. Less than half receive basic medical care through safetynet clinics: non-profit clinics that provide free care to uninsured and underinsured people. Most of the rest either go to the emergency room, or go without care.

Project Access NOW coordinates a network of healthcare providers who donate medically necessary healthcare to qualified individuals. This vital work is made possible by people like you, who realize their potential to make a lasting impact in so many lives. The clients of Project Access NOW need your help!

We depend on volunteers. Getting involved sends a powerful message to the most vulnerable in our midst: We are a community that cares.

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 Featured community volunteer: Carey Cameron

After working in the restaurant business and then the print industry for more than 25 years, Carey Cameron discovered the field of medical coding. That, she realized, was the perfect place to put her skills and strong attention to detail to good use. So, she enrolled in Anthem College’s Medical Billing/Coding program in Beaverton and graduated in February of 2010.

It was through Anthem that Carey learned about Project Access NOW. Feeling a strong pull to give back to the community and, at the same time, volunteer in an organization with ties to health care, Carey reached out to Project Access NOW and began volunteering every week beginning in June of this year.

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 Further reading

Community volunteers and Hands On Greater Portland are making a difference

Community volunteer profiles

Carey Cameron
Vicki Cameron
Judy Hale
Ryan Kartheiser
Betty Marino
Kathi Misner
Molly McGuire
Yolanda Moisa
Patrick R.
Ann Shim
Janet Williams