According to its Volunteer Match listing, there are four ways to get involved:

-Visit hospice patients and their families in a nursing home settings.

-Counsel the bereaved. Additional training will be provided.

-Share your craft. Heartland Hospice need licensed professionals (beauticians, etc.) to lend their services.

-Sit by the bedside of a dying patient.

Volunteer commitments are flexible.

To learn more, visit the Heartland Hospice office at 719 Indiana Drive in Erie or check out its Volunteer Match listing.

Hospice volunteers are needed throughout Erie and Crawford counties. Volunteers work to enhance the quality of life of patients and their loved ones.

Lakeland Area Hospice at 2221A Peninsula Drive in Erie will be conducting training classes for hospice volunteers beginning on Jan. 24.

Classes run from 7 to 9 p.m. Day classes are also available.

For more information, contact the Lakeland Area Hospice Office at (814) 838-0511.