28.0 Overview
Short-term volunteers serve for 1 to 11 weeks, with most staying between 1 and 4 weeks. Though their duration is shorter, they participate in the same daily schedule, training, and service expectations as all other volunteers.
28.1 Service expectations
Short-term volunteers complete regular full-time service, following the same shift assignments, meeting attendance, and house responsibilities as semester abroad volunteers.
28.2 Orientation and training
All standard orientation and training procedures apply. Short-term volunteers receive the same introduction to OSSO policies, shift sites, and activity methods as other volunteer types.
28.3 Housing
Short-term volunteers are individual volunteers and are housed in dorm-style rooms, alongside semester abroad volunteers.
They do not use family rooms unless no family volunteers are scheduled and additional space is needed.
28.4 Scheduling
Short-term volunteers are included in the regular volunteer schedule. Arrival and departure dates are already listed in Grid for Directors’ reference.