Volunteer mobilization
Show up for those who showed up for us
Guardian Angels recruits, trains, and deploys volunteers for the entire Lighthouse ecosystem. Whatever your skills and schedule, there is a rural veteran in Louisiana whose day — or whose year — turns on someone like you saying yes.
Training for every role Flexible time commitments 4 regions across Louisiana
Why volunteers matter here
In rural communities, people are the infrastructure
Support networks are sparse in rural Louisiana — that is the whole reason this ecosystem exists. Where a city veteran might find a VSO office, a shuttle service, and three nonprofits within a mile, a rural veteran often finds a long drive and a phone tree. What closes that distance is neighbors: trained, coordinated, dependable volunteers.
The ecosystem's master plan is honest about the risk on the other side: volunteer burnout is a named threat. So we don't just recruit — we steward. Clear roles, real training, respectful scheduling, and recognition that means something. You will never be handed a mission without the tools to complete it.
Volunteer roles
Six ways to serve
Every role serves a different corner of the ecosystem. Pick the one that fits your gifts — or tell us on the form and we'll help you decide.
M-TOC event support
When the Mobile Triage Outreach Cavalry rolls into a parish, volunteers make it work: setup and teardown, registration tables, wayfinding, refreshments, and the friendly first face a veteran sees.
Time: event-based — typically one Saturday every month or two.
Benefits-navigation helpers
Support LCDC's navigators with document prep, appointment reminders, follow-up calls, and warm hand-offs. You are the steady hand that keeps a claim from stalling. Full training provided; accredited representation always stays with accredited professionals.
Time: 2–4 hours weekly, much of it remote.
Story collectors & oral-history interviewers
Trained interviewers for the Guardian Light Legacy Story Archive. Sit with veterans and families, record their histories, and help build the Digital Wall of Honor. Reverence required; equipment and training provided.
Time: flexible — one interview (2–3 hours) at a time.
Content & media volunteers
Writers, editors, photographers, podcast producers, and social-media managers who keep the ecosystem's "surround sound" channels alive — newsletter pieces, blog posts, episode notes, event coverage.
Time: 2–6 hours monthly, almost entirely remote.
Bootcamp mentors
Veterans and professionals who walk alongside bootcamp participants — entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and social-enterprise training under EEC. Lived experience is the curriculum here.
Time: one cohort season (8–12 weeks), a few hours per week.
Disaster-response support
Support the ecosystem's Disaster Preparedness, Recovery & Resiliency work — staging supplies, wellness checks on rural veterans, and recovery-day muscle after storms, alongside partners like the American Red Cross and Councils on Aging.
Time: on-call seasonal; preparedness trainings quarterly.
What volunteers receive
We take care of the people who take care of veterans
Training
Role-specific onboarding before your first deployment — outreach etiquette, privacy and consent practices, oral-history technique, or benefits-support basics — plus refreshers as programs evolve.
Recognition
Service hours documented for school, work, or licensure; annual volunteer recognition at ecosystem gatherings; and Guardian Light Recognition Certificates for memorial-corps volunteers.
Community
A crew that has your back: coordinated scheduling, a named point of contact, and a network of veterans, families, and neighbors across four Louisiana regions who become your people.
Sign up
Raise your hand
Tell us who you are and how you'd like to serve. A volunteer coordinator will follow up with next steps and training dates.
Not ready to commit hours yet?
You can still serve: share a veteran's story with the memorial, endorse the coalition, or pass the newsletter to a veteran who needs it.