The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is a place where medical miracles happen almost daily. We are a place where leading-edge research is translated into extraordinary care brought to the bedsides of thousands of sick children. We're an extensive network of primary and specialty care, inpatient and outpatient services extending throughout the community.

We're also a place where healing can come, not only by medical and surgical intervention, but by the touch of a hand, a shared smile or a knowing wink. We're a place where volunteers make a difference in the lives of children on a daily basis.

  It takes a team with the right measures of technological proficiency and human touch to heal a child, and volunteers are an essential part of that effort.

Volunteers supply their special human connection — a connection of spirits that transcends miles of IV tubing and the quiet din of a roomful of monitors.

It's the connection that can transform a foreboding maze of hallways and treatment rooms into a cozy corner of the world. It's a connection so easily and generously made by the dedicated volunteer corps of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Volunteer Program at a Glance

• Operates seven days a week, offering day and evening hours.
• If you are an adult, you must be available to volunteer a minimum of three hours per week for a consecutive three-month period, and you must be in good health and enjoy children.
• If you are a teen (15 to 18 years of age):
• After-school teen program — two hours per week for a consecutive three-month period. Clerical assignments only.
• Clerical assignments only if you are 15 years of age.
• Opportunities to work with patients and clerical assignment if you are 16 to 18 years of age and in good health and enjoy children
• Summer teen program — four hours per week for one month.
• Free parking
• Meal vouchers
• Types of Assignments:
• Clerical
• Ambassador
• Hospitality
• Child Life
• Reach Out and Read - Read aloud to children of all ages in the waiting room at one of the ROR sites, which are primary care doctor's offices in West and South Philadelphia and Burlington, NJ.  Commit to one or more hours weekly or every other week for at least three months.

For information about internships, externships or student placements in a particular department, please contact that department directly.

For more information, please contact:
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Volunteer Services
Main Building, 8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
215-590-1093
volunteers@email.chop.edu