Volunteer Solutions offers meaningful opportunities to help support older adults, adults with disabilities, and family caregivers. The following volunteers are needed:

• Drivers for grocery shopping, medical appointments, errands 
• Social visitors
• Household organizers, and more.

Bilingual volunteers are needed, too. 

Would you like to help a neighbor feel less lonely? Will you help someone get much-needed groceries? Flexible schedules.

Form new connections and help decrease social isolation. Many recipients of volunteer support are case managed by Department of Family Services social service specialists. To learn more explore our volunteer opportunities. If you have questions, you may contact us at VolunteerSolutions@FairfaxCounty.gov or 703-324-5406 TTY 711. We'll help you find the right volunteer role for your schedule and interests! 

Fairfax County senior centers and adult day healthcare centers offer various volunteer opportunities to help enrich their programming.

Do you enjoy engaging with older adults?

Have a skill you’d like to share?

Search the Opportunities List for the senior center by name or the type of role you may wish to pursue.

This episode of Mature Living highlights how volunteerism helps build strong communities and increases socialization. Volunteering can also improve physical health and longevity in those who volunteer. Emily Swenson, Supervisor of Volunteer Solutions with the Fairfax Area Agency on Aging, shares tips on how individuals who need assistance can seek help from volunteer services, as well as information for those who want to assist others. Learn about opportunities with Volunteer Fairfax. Two volunteers, Maria Romain, a S.A.I.L instructor, and Jeff Rogers, an IT On-Call volunteer, explain how they got involved in volunteering, and the benefit they gain from their experience. Watch Mature Living.

Check out articles about our volunteers in action!