Get Involved: For Students
For Students: Hours That Change You
You need 100 volunteer hours to qualify for the Bright Futures Scholarship. That's the requirement. How you spend your 100 hours is up to you.
At Bright Futures with Seniors, those hours happen inside senior living communities, paired with residents who have lived through decades of history, hardship, and joy. Your job isn't to perform a task. It's to show up, listen, and connect.
Before you step inside a facility, we prepare you. Our orientation covers the real challenges seniors face, like isolation, memory changes, the disorienting experience of relocating to a care community. We teach you practical skills: how to ask questions that open a conversation, how to listen past silence, how to find common ground with someone whose world looks entirely different from yours.
These are the skills that determine how far you go in college, in your career, and in your most important relationships.
What It Looks Like in Practice
Visits are scheduled, structured, and supported. You might share a game, take a walk, help someone navigate their phone, or bring flowers to someone who doesn’t get many visitors. Every interaction is guided by a program framework, so you always know what to expect (and so do the seniors who look forward to seeing you).
This is a meaningful volunteer opportunity for high school students that develops the skills colleges and employers are actively looking for. You also have the rare ability to remind someone that they matter.
That is not a small thing.