Put Your Healthcare Skills to Work for Community
Interested in enrolling as a UHPG volunteer? Join a compassionate network of healthcare professionals and community advocates improving health access across Colorado.
Why Healthcare Professionals Volunteer With UHPG
In Colorado, UHPG gives healthcare professionals a practical way to extend their expertise beyond traditional clinical settings and help reduce barriers to care across Colorado. Through wellness events, health fairs, outreach visits, workshops, virtual education, referral clinics, and partner-site activities, volunteers help community members access prevention, health information, navigation, and trusted support. UHPG’s model includes screenings, education, referrals, insurance guidance, and resource assistance for underserved populations.
How Volunteers Make a Difference
Physicians (MD/DO) provide health talks, supervise clinical screenings, offer wellness guidance, and make appropriate referrals for uninsured people, low-income families, immigrants, seniors, and people with chronic conditions, giving physicians a direct way to extend preventive care beyond the clinic.
Nurse practitioners (NPs) conduct basic health assessments, provide chronic-disease education and wellness counseling, and support referrals for adults, families, seniors, and people with limited access to primary care, allowing NPs to help people take timely action on health concerns.
Registered nurses (RNs) conduct blood-pressure, glucose, and wellness screenings; teach self-care; and help participants follow through on referrals, enabling nurses to turn early detection into practical prevention.
Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) support intake, vital-sign checks, health education, and participant follow-up under appropriate supervision at UHPG wellness events, allowing them to provide compassionate hands-on support to community members.
Physician assistants (PAs) assist with preventive assessments, health counseling, screenings, and care referrals for underserved adults, working families, uninsured people, and people with chronic concerns, helping them identify unmet health needs before they become emergencies.
Pharmacists provide medication-safety education, medication reviews, immunization information, and prescription-assistance guidance for people with limited financial or healthcare access, helping make medications safer, more understandable, and more affordable.
Pharmacy technicians help participants locate low-cost medication programs, organize prescription-resource information, and support outreach activities under pharmacist supervision, allowing them to reduce a major financial barrier to treatment.
Dentists provide oral-health education, support dental screenings, promote prevention, and refer children, families, seniors, immigrants, and uninsured people to affordable dental care, helping prevent untreated dental problems from becoming painful or urgent.
Dental hygienists teach brushing, flossing, preventive oral-health practices, and support community dental outreach for children, parents, pregnant women, and families with limited coverage, empowering families to protect their oral health every day.
Mental-health counselors and therapists facilitate stress-management workshops, mental-health awareness sessions, and confidential referral support for youth, adults, caregivers, immigrants, trauma survivors, and isolated individuals, helping reduce stigma and encourage people to seek support early.
Speech-language pathologists provide education and referral guidance related to speech, language, swallowing, communication, child development, and healthy aging for children, seniors, people with disabilities, stroke survivors, and caregivers, helping families recognize concerns early and pursue needed support.
Audiologists provide hearing-health education, authorized basic outreach support, and referrals for affordable hearing testing, treatment, and assistive devices, helping people improve communication, learning, safety, and social connection.
Optometrists and ophthalmic professionals provide eye-health education, support vision-screening outreach, and connect children, students, seniors, people with diabetes, and uninsured residents to affordable eye care, helping protect vision needed for learning, work, and independence.
Podiatrists provide foot-health education, diabetic foot-care guidance, fall-prevention information, and specialty referrals for seniors, people with diabetes, people with mobility limitations, and uninsured adults, helping protect mobility and prevent serious complications.
Midwives and doulas provide childbirth education, pregnancy wellness support, postpartum guidance, and maternal-resource referrals for pregnant women, new mothers, immigrant families, and low-income households, helping families feel informed, supported, and prepared.
Behavioral-health peer support specialists provide lived-experience encouragement, recovery support, stigma-reduction education, and service referrals for people facing mental-health concerns, substance-use challenges, trauma, or isolation, offering hope and connection through shared experience.
Substance-use disorder counselors provide prevention education, overdose-awareness information, recovery-resource navigation, and treatment referrals for individuals and families affected by substance use, helping people access compassionate, nonjudgmental paths to recovery.
Psychologists provide behavioral-health education, trauma-informed workshops, mental-health screening guidance, and referrals for people experiencing grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, or significant stress, making evidence-informed mental-health support more accessible.
Social workers provide resource navigation, benefits assistance, housing and food referrals, insurance guidance, and care coordination for people facing poverty, homelessness, disability, housing instability, or family crisis, helping remove the nonmedical barriers that affect health.
Community health workers (CHWs) conduct culturally responsive outreach, explain services in accessible language, assist with appointments, and follow up with immigrants, refugees, diverse-language communities, low-income families, and isolated residents, building trust between communities and healthcare systems.
Registered dietitians and nutritionists lead nutrition classes, healthy-cooking demonstrations, food-label education, and diabetes-prevention workshops for food-insecure households, seniors, children, and people managing diabetes or hypertension, helping participants make realistic healthy choices within their resources.
Physical therapists and occupational therapists lead safe-movement classes, fall-prevention education, mobility training, and injury-prevention activities for older adults, people with disabilities, caregivers, and people with chronic pain, helping people maintain independence and confidence in daily life.
Paramedics and EMTs teach CPR, first aid, emergency preparedness, and appropriate use of urgent and emergency care during UHPG community events, helping families and caregivers respond effectively when emergencies occur.
Public-health professionals assess community needs, design prevention campaigns, organize health fairs, collect non-identifying program data, and evaluate outcomes for populations experiencing health disparities, helping UHPG deliver more effective and responsive programs.
Health educators facilitate workshops on prevention, hygiene, nutrition, sexual health, chronic disease, and health literacy for youth, parents, adults, seniors, immigrants, and low-income households, helping people make informed health decisions in everyday life.
Medical laboratory professionals support approved screening events, explain preventive tests, and direct participants at risk of diabetes, high cholesterol, anemia, or other conditions toward appropriate follow-up care, helping people understand and act on early health-warning signs.
Respiratory therapists provide asthma and COPD education, inhaler-use demonstrations, smoking-cessation information, and respiratory-health referrals for people with breathing conditions, helping reduce preventable respiratory complications.
Certified diabetes care and education specialists teach blood-sugar management, healthy eating, medication adherence, foot care, and diabetes prevention for people with diabetes, prediabetes, obesity, hypertension, or limited healthcare access, helping participants prevent complications and manage their condition with confidence.
Maternal and child health professionals provide prenatal, postpartum, breastfeeding, infant-care, child-development, and family-wellness education for pregnant women, new mothers, infants, young children, and low-income families, supporting healthier starts for parents and children.
Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) support healthy-aging activities, participant comfort, non-clinical wellness activities, and basic outreach under appropriate supervision, helping seniors, people with disabilities, and caregivers feel respected and supported.
Medical assistants (MAs) support registration, intake, basic screenings, health-resource distribution, and referral tracking under appropriate supervision at UHPG events, helping ensure participants receive organized, timely, and welcoming support.
Case managers and care coordinators help participants schedule appointments, understand care plans, locate transportation, and connect with insurance, healthcare, and social-support resources, helping close the gap between receiving a referral and obtaining care.
Interested in Enrolling as a Volunteer?
Join UHPG and use your healthcare knowledge, time, and compassion to strengthen underserved communities across Colorado. Volunteers support health education, wellness events, screenings, referrals, and resource navigation. Whether you can serve once or regularly, your contribution can improve access, promote prevention, and help families build healthier futures.