You can be a Volunteer or an Intern!

	Volunteer friends for Compeer Friends, Skill Builders and Coffee Club
	Community Educators (mental health month, professional conference, older adult depression/stress awareness, and more)
	Hands of Hope volunteers (July to Dec)
	Human Race participant (January to March)
	General Volunteers

Compeer Friends is a peer-mentoring program of friendship and independence for adults receiving mental health treatment (consumers). This program helps consumers become healthier, more independent members of our community. We are most interested in recruiting volunteers who are in recovery from psychiatric illness and want to share their experiences. You can help someone today just by being their friend. ^ top

Compeer Skill Builder volunteers help consumers become more independent and help teach them how to relax and have fun with classes like cooking, money management, job skills, and yoga and other fun activities. These skills lead participants to have greater independence. Classes can be once or several times or on going. What can YOU teach?^ top

Coffee Club is a social club for consumers and volunteers. Coffee Club members meet once a month so they can chat and get to know each other in a supportive and comfortable place. You can help host, bring some snacks, or just come and chat with this great group of friends.^ top

Community Educators help the Mental Health Association in Greensboro tell the many stories of psychiatric illness and of recovery. Volunteers are speakers in the community or assist with workshops, programs and seminars on mental health and mental illness for the general public and training for therapists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals.^ top

Hands of Hope volunteers recruit sponsors and donations for children and adults who are mental health patients at John Umstead State Psychiatric Hospital, Moses Cone Wesley Long Behavioral Health Center, and other local facilities.^ top

Human Race participants walk, run or roll with us on Saturday, March 19 th, 2005 to help us raise money and awareness of the importance of mental health. ^ top

General Volunteers assist with mailings, copying, filing, and special projects. These volunteers are a very important part of helping us to complete the everyday work that needs to be done to make our programs run smoothly. ^ top

For more information, contact:

Blair Benson

Director of Supportive Services

373-1402 ext.206

bbenson@mhag.org

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