{"id":19715,"date":"2025-06-24T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/?p=19715"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:37:42","slug":"volunteer-of-the-month-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/2025\/06\/24\/volunteer-of-the-month-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer of the Month &#8211; June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Meet Chris, a dedicated Livingston Memorial volunteer who brings comfort and connection to patients across Ventura County. A former English actor with a background in film and television, Chris now uses his voice and presence to uplift others in a deeply meaningful way.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><br \/>\nWith 16 years of experience on suicide prevention hotlines\u2014first with The Samaritans in London and later in Los Angeles\u2014Chris honed his greatest skill: the art of truly listening. He now supports hospice patients by gathering their life stories and reading weekly at a local board and care, where his calm presence and storytelling brings joy to residents.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><br \/>\nAs Chris says, \u201cWe are here to give service. So, I just show up\u2014and will continue to do so as long as the opportunities present themselves.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><br \/>\nTo find out how you can support Livingston in a meaningful way, click here or contact Violet Way, our Community Engagement Manager, at <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"mailto:vway@lmvna.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vway@lmvna.org<\/a><\/span>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Volunteer-of-the-Month_Chris_FlyerPDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF Version<\/a><\/span><\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Chris, a dedicated Livingston Memorial volunteer who brings comfort and connection to patients across Ventura County. A former English actor with a background in film and television, Chris now uses his voice and presence to uplift others in a deeply meaningful way. &#8211; With&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19720,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715\/revisions\/19720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmvna.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}