Volunteer
Every year, about 700 healthcare professionals, students, and community members provide more than 14,000 hours of service to the Charlottesville Free Clinic. Volunteers are the life-blood of the Free Clinic. Join us to ensure everyone in the greater Charlottesville area has access to free medical care, free dental care, and prescriptions.
Volunteer Portal
If you are a current volunteer, log in to your MyImpact account.
Volunteering at the Free Clinic
Interested in volunteering? The following types of volunteers help us accomplish our mission every day.
Students
High school students: Unfortunately, the Free Clinic can not accept high school students as volunteers or interns.
Undergraduate students: The Free Clinic accepts UVA undergraduate volunteers through the Madison House Program and UVA interns through the University Internship Program. Certain clinical qualifications may allow you to volunteer outside of these programs and will need to be verified in your application.
Post-grad Students: For example, medical students, dental students, pharmacy students, post-bacs.
Volunteer as a Student!
Create a free account with MyImpact and submit an application.
Community Volunteers
Administrative support: Volunteers help support our clinic operations by checking in patients, handing out prescriptions, scheduling appointments, and working with patients to determine their eligibility.
Direct patient care: Volunteers — including nurses, EMTs, phlebotomists, dental assistants, scribes, and pharmacy technicians — serve patients at the Free Clinic.
Interpreting: Spanish-speaking interpreters are vital to our clinic, as a large part of our patient population speaks Spanish. Volunteer interpreters help to break down the language barrier in a patient's clinical care.
Volunteer as a Community Member!
Create a free account with MyImpact and submit an application.
Volunteer Providers
Primary care providers and a wide variety of specialists: Our volunteer providers typically see patients during evening clinic hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 5:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. However, there is some flexibility for daytime/afternoon hours if you are unavailable to volunteer during evening clinic hours.
Mental health professionals: Psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and social workers may volunteer to provide mental health assessments, counseling, and medication management for Free Clinic medical patients during evening clinic hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 5:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. There is some flexibility around hours if you are unavailable to volunteer during evening clinic hours.
Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians: Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians volunteer to fill and dispense medications during evening clinic hours at our licensed, onsite pharmacy on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 6:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Dental professionals: Dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants help us care for patients during our day and evening clinic hours. We also rely on volunteers from UVA and the VCU School of Dentistry.
If you are interested in volunteering as a provider, please fill out the provider application below! If you have any questions, please contact the following staff members.
Medical Clinic Provider: Patient Care Coordinator carecoordinator@cvillefreeclinic.org
Medical Clinic Non-Provider: Volunteer Coordinator volunteercoordinator@cvillefreeclinic.org
Pharmacy: Pharmacy Director pharmacy@cvillefreeclinic.org
Dental: Front Desk dentaldesk@cvillefreeclinic.org.
Volunteer as a Provider!
Create a free account with MyImpact and submit an application.
Support our Volunteers!
Support our volunteers by donating dinner for a clinic night through our Volunteer Vittles program.