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Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick
Building a stronger community
Who We Are
The Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc. is a registered charitable organization. Through the promotion of volunteering, the center supports over 150 registered not-for-profit agencies/organizations from the Dieppe, Moncton and Riverview areas by responding to requests for recruitment community volunteers.
Our commitment
- Deliver creative solutions to serve the needs of the community.
- Promote volunteering, coordinate resources and people…

National Volunteer Week 2023
April 16 – 22, 2023
#NVW2023 #WeavingUsTogether
Let’s celebrate our individual and collective actions in creating a strong, interconnected and vibrant community! Volunteering weaves us together, strengthening the fabric of our community by sharing our time, talent and energy to support one another.
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Through volunteering we experience our interconnectedness, making our lives more meaningful. Getting involved in various ways, we find friendship, develop trust, and link our relationships. Threading these connections, we come to belong as we contribute towards the same goals.
Like each individual thread makes weaving stronger, every volunteer’s experience, perspective, and abilities add to our collective resilience. Woven together from coast to coast to coast, volunteering reinforces our ability to grow, thrive, and create change within our community, province, and country.
Knowing our volunteer contributions are valued and meaningful creates a greater sense of purpose and dedication. From helping build a home, cleaning up a park, or coaching a sports team to cooking for an ill friend, checking in on a neighbour, or helping a stranger cross the street, each action we take impacts our community’s overall wellness, now and for future generations.
During National Volunteer Week 2023, we celebrate our collective impact: through our kindness, generosity and commitment to volunteering, we weave our lives together.
Happy National Volunteer Week to all the amazing volunteers! I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for what you do for your communities! It is only people like you that keep us known as one of the ‘Most Caring Communities’ in Canada! Keep up the great volunteer effort it is so appreciated by all of us!!!
Debbi LeBlanc, Volunteer Coordinator
National Volunteer Week Breakfast: 2023April 18th
INFORMATION
The event was “LIVE” on our Facebook page. Click here to watch.
Volunteer Strategy
volunteerstrategy.ca
Online survey
Upcoming webinar on May 31st – more details to follow
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!!!
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to attend the Dementia Capable Support of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities & Dementia in Moncton June 12-14.
This is the first time this training from The NTG – Canadian Consortium has been offered in our area and will a valuable learning opportunity for service providers in the Maritime provinces.

More info
Currently registration is low and there is potential we will not meet the minimum number of registrations so if you were considering registering please do so this week to avoid the workshop being cancelled.
If you have registered staff for the two-day workshop you may want to consider one of them attending the third day for the Train The Trainer. For a minimal additional cost this will you’re your organization an Affiliated Provincial Trainer to provide training and resources to your staff as well as in the community.
Who Is The National Task Group – Canadian Consortium
A collective of professionals, academics, agency personnel and family with interest in advocacy, education, and program/services development on behalf of Canadians with intellectual and developmental disabilities at risk of or living with dementia. The Consortium has advised on matters related to developmental disabilities for the development of A Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Aspire and provides technical assistance and programmatic and education advice and is currently working on a national dementia project that is operating under federal funding through the Public Health Agency Of Canada. The two curriculum instructors are co-leads on this project, together with Reena in Ontario.
Who Are the Curriculum Instructors?
Nancy Jokinen has a MSW with a Gerontology Specialization (Lakehead University) and a PhD in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (University of Calgary). Prior to graduate studies Nancy worked for over 20 years in services and supports for adults with intellectual disabilities and their families. She also has experience in mental health services, long term care and a special care unit for people with dementia. Currently Nancy is an Adjunct Professor for the School of Social Work at the University of Northern British Columbia, a Board member of the NTG in the United States, and a co-lead on the NTG-Canadian Consortium.
Leslie Udell has a degree in Community Rehabilitation from the University of Calgary. She spent 30 years working for an agency, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that provided residential supports to adults with an intellectual disability. Much of her focus, over that time, was on aging related issues and dementia. In 1998 she contributed a chapter in“Dementia and Aging Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Handbook” as well as another chapter, in 2014, in the book “Intellectual Disability and Dementia: Research into Practice”. Leslie also developed and taught two courses at Red River College; Cognitive Impairment and Grief, Loss and Palliative Care and operates her own consultant business. She is a co-lead on the NTG-Canadian Consortium.
David Richard
Executive Director
Moncton Employment & Training Services, Inc.
1250 St George Boulevard
Moncton NB E1E 3S1
tel: (506) 858-9404 ext 202
fax: (506) 858-8090
e-mail: execdir@metsinc.ca
web: www.metsinc.ca
highlights
Volunteering is rewarding.
You can:
- Learn more about the community and what it has to offer
- Create practical work experience
- Enjoy the feeling of making a contribution
- Meet people and build new relationships
“ Volunteer Drivers Urgently Needed for Dialysis Clients “
Volunteer Drivers are urgently needed to transport some of our clients for dialysis appointments. These clients living in the rural area have no other means of finding transportation and depend on our service. We are in urgent need of volunteer drivers from the following areas: Shediac {2 clients}, Murray Corner {1}, Cap Pele {1}, Petitcodiac {1}, Havelock {1}, Riverside Albert {1}. If you live in one of these areas and can give us a few hours a week to help us out in this urgent situation please contact our Ride Coordinator at 962-3073 or urbanruralrides@gmail.com. All volunteers drivers are reimbursed at 0.46/km from their home and return.
June 2023
Through the promotion of volunteering, the Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc. supports over 150 registered not-for-profit agencies/organizations from the Dieppe, Moncton and Riverview areas by responding to requests for recruitment community volunteers.
Non profit agencies, are invited to register. Fill out the Agency registration form
If you are a registered agency needing volunteers, fill out the Agency request for volunteers form
VOLUNTEER WEEK Greater Moncton Non-Profit Organizations
Nationally this is the week that we thank and pay tribute to all of Canada’s 12.7 million volunteers!
VOLUNTEER WEEK 2023: April 16th-22
“ The #beccatoldmeto Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award “
The #beccatoldmeto Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award was created in honour of Becca Schofield as her #Beccatoldmeto acts of kindness has inspired so many young individuals to make a difference in our community.

Striving to be a role model for agencies/organizations engaging volunteers, the Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc. coordinates and/or assists with workshops and training sessions for volunteers and agencies and organizations utilizing volunteers. The “Centre” also serves as an information and consultation service to the community-at-large.
Your charitable donation is your way of saying: “Yes, Volunteers are essential to the quality of our community!” Charitable tax receipts are available with any financial donation. You can donate online.
A Place to Learn & Grow
Upcoming Training Sessions
VMPNB information
and more
Posted on our Facebook page
Tri-Community Volunteer Promotion Campaign!
Dieppe/Moncton/Riverview
Pick your own way to help out in your community or let us help you find meaningful volunteering right for you! We are asking every volunteer in our community to help us in promoting ‘helping out by volunteering’!
By proudly displaying a sticker on your rear car window or on the front door of your home or office others will learn how they can volunteer too in our great community.
Volunteers are the heart of our community! Sign up to get your sticker now! Stickers can be mailed to you or can be picked up at Volunteer Centre office at 22 Church Street, Suite T290
Note: a confirmed time for pick up has to be scheduled by contacting Debbi LeBlanc, Volunteer Coordinator at 869-6905 or email at d.leblanc@volunteergreatermoncton.com.


Volunteer Centres: An Untapped Resource
We’re writing this letter, signed by aligned Volunteer Centres in a robust network across the country, to speak up on how meaningful volunteerism is enabled.
An Open Letter from Volunteer Centres Across Canada
Canadians volunteer more than anywhere else in the world. Every year, nearly 13 million individuals contribute time to an organization in their community, and during the COVID-19 pandemic hundreds of thousands more have stepped up to deliver services to those most vulnerable. While it’s clear that volunteerism is a powerful characteristic of Canadian identity, the role of Volunteer Centres—the vibrant network of 200+ agencies whose role it is to facilitate this extraordinary exchange—is far from understood, or worse yet, has been ignored. In recent weeks, we have been reminded that, in many instances, governments, funders, and even some non-profit leaders, fail to recognize the skill, resources, and infrastructure required to keep volunteers engaged and our social services afloat.
Notwithstanding a crisis, every single Canadian benefits fr om volunteer contributions because of their presence in our social fabric. Even more importantly, volunteers ensure our country’s most vulnerable community members are not left behind. This has been true for decades. The time and skill volunteers dedicate increase our country’s capacity in hospitals, shelters, food banks, schools, festivals, community sport, among others, that if paid, would exceed more than 50 billion dollars every year.
But volunteerism is more than human capacity, and what makes volunteerism truly meaningful is that the exchange is not one-way. When a volunteer gives their time, they in turn gain empathy, understanding, and access to skills or human assets. It is this two-way relationship, enabled by skilled volunteer engagers, that makes volunteerism a meaningful, and ethical exchange of labour. Without an understanding of this important social contract, we stand to drift from volunteerism as a truly democratic function of our society.
Local, community-based Volunteer Centres across the country have built connections between non-profits and volunteer seekers from every demographic. We continue to hold an essential recruitment role that enables volunteers to find the opportunities they are looking for and organizations find the volunteers they need.
We also do so much more.
More than ever, Canada’s 170,000 non-profit and charitable organizations have turned to Volunteer Centres for answers during the COVID-19 crisis. As organizations with decades of experience, we know that it takes expertise to respond quickly and effectively to recruit, train, and manage volunteers to serve clients safely. And what’s more, we know how to leverage the skills and interest of volunteers to build meaningful roles that grow personal experience, and therefore, economic and social opportunity.
While some governments spent time, energy and money in building new structures and mechanisms to recruit and deploy volunteers at national and provincial levels, local community based Volunteer Centres have been on the front-lines in realigning their existing resources; providing training and supports for volunteer engagement; coordinating recovery efforts; and pulling together diverse partners to meet identified needs – most often without additional financial or human resources.
We have ensured that volunteering has continued to serve a vital role in our community, despite the fact that two out of thr ee charities and non-profit organizations have lost more than 30% of the revenue that allow them to deliver regular, necessary services.
As we move to a post-pandemic world, the role of locally-based Volunteer Centres is more important than ever. In an anticipated time of high government debt, limited resources, and greater community needs, the expertise of Volunteer Centres must be harnessed to ensure that we uphold the integrity of volunteerism that underpins our vibrant, and diverse society.
We’re up to the challenge.
Signatories (Central)
1. Alliance des CAB de la ville de Québec (CABQ, CABC et Cab Aide23) - Québec, QC
2. Cab de Sherbrooke - Sherbrooke, QC
3. Centre d action bénévole de Farnham - Farnham, QC
4. Centre d’action bénévole de Contrecoeur - Contrecoeur, QC
5. Centre d’Action Bénévole Domaine-du-Roy - Saint-Félicien, QC
6. Centre d’action bénévole du Granit - Lac-Mégantic, ON
7. Centre d’action bénévole La Grande Corvée - Grande-Vallée, QC
8. Centre d’action bénévole Les Hauts-Bois inc. - Murdochville, QC
9. Centre d’action bénévole soif de vivre - Saint-Rédempteur, QC
10. Centre d’action bénévole Valcourt et Région - Valcourt, QC
11. Community Development Halton/Volunteer Halton - Burlington, ON
12. Convergence action bénévole - Lévis, QC
13. Fédération des centres d’action bénévole du Québec - Montréal, QC
14. Ontario Volunteer Centre Network - Ontario
15. Pillar Nonprofit Network - London, ON
16. PIN- The People Information Network - Guelph, ON
17. Volunteer & Information Quinte - Belleville, ON
18. Volunteer Action Centre Waterloo Region - Waterloo, ON
19. Volunteer Bureau of Montréal - Montréal, QC
20. Volunteer Canada/Bénévoles Canada - Ottawa, ON
21. Volunteer Dufferin - Mono, ON
22. Volunteer Markham - Markham, ON
23. Volunteer MBC - Mississauga, ON
24. Volunteer Ottawa - Ottawa, ON
25. Volunteer Toronto - Toronto, ON
26. Volunteer West Island - Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
Signatories (West)
27. City of Leduc - Leduc, AB
28. Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations - Edmonton, AB
29. Hanna Volunteer Association/Hanna Learning Centre - Hanna, AB
30. Propellus - The Volunteer Centre of Calgary - Calgary, AB
31. Rimbey FCSS - Rimbley, AB
32. South Okanagan Similkameen Volunteer Centre Society - Penticton, BC
33. Stony Plain Volunteer Centre - Stony Plain, AB
34. Volunteer Airdrie Society - Airdrie, AB
35. Volunteer Alberta - Alberta
36. Volunteer Campbell River - Campbell River, BC
37. Volunteer Lethbridge Association - Lethbridge, AB
38. Volunteer Nanaimo - Nanaimo, BC
39. Volunteer Strathcona Centre - Sherwood Park, AB
40. Volunteer Victoria - Victoria, BC
Signatories (East)
41. Kings Volunteer Resource Centre - Kentville, NS
42. Volunteer Centre of Southeastern N.B. Inc. - Moncton, NB
43. Volunteer Greater Fredericton - Fredericton, NB
Signatories (North)
44. Volunteer Bénévoles Yukon - Whitehorse, YK
Volunteering is an opportunity to give back to the community of Greater Moncton. Being a Volunteer Greeter is the highlight of my week!
Volunteer Driver assisting one our clients to an appointment. ‘Your commitment to volunteering many years in our community is outstanding’, Debbi LeBlanc, Volunteer Coordinator.
REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY
Come work in a fun casual atmosphere assisting people with physical disabilities. No experience necessary, fully paid training provided and medical benefits included. This is a 24/7 workplace with flexible part time hours, possibly full-time hours. Screening procedures are mandatory. For more information please call 506-382-9386 or email at v.roy@volunteergreatermoncton.com
