INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Heart Touch Project, which trains massage therapists to help nonambulatory AIDS patients, needs practitioners to donate their time to homes, hospices and hospitals. A commitment of four hours a month over a one-year period is required. Workshop classes are April 28, 29 and 30. Training is free. Information: Shawnee Isaac-Smith, (310) 452-6112.

* Santa Teresita Hospital in Duarte invites those interested in volunteer work to its Spring Volunteer Coffee and Open House at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Information: (626) 359-3244, Ext. 3220.

* Planned Parenthood Los Angeles needs volunteers to teach sex education in high schools and to community groups. A four-day training program begins April 17 in the South Bay. Information: (310) 395-0098.

* Cheer for Children needs volunteers to assist in hat-making, face-painting and carnival-type booths during Easter parties for orthopedically disabled children at a South Bay school on Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and at a South Bay hospital Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Donations of personal-size toiletries are also needed. Information: Volunteer Center, South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach, (310) 212-5009.

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