NAMI Greater Des Moines | Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer to be a Teacher or Support Group Facilitator

Volunteer to be on a Committee or be a Project Leader

Volunteer to help with NAMI WALKS

Volunteer Your Story

NAMI Greater Des Moines is an organization of volunteers. We have no paid staff. Would you volunteer your time and talents to provide support, education, and advocacy for those affected by mental illness?

Volunteer to be a Teacher or Support Group Facilitator

This would involve a weekend of training to become a teacher as well as teaching at least 2 classes in two years. Teachers and facilitators are needed for the following educational programs:

Family to Family educational classes
Visions for Tomorrow educational classes
Peer to Peer educational classes
Provider educational classes
Parents and Teachers as Allies team presenters
Support Group facilitator (involves once a month 2-1/2 hr commitment of time)

Click here to learn more about the educational classes.
If you see an opportunity to help out, please e-mail tbomhoff@mchsi.com or leave a voice mail at 277-0672, or send a letter to NAMI Greater Des Moines, Box 12174, Des Moines, Iowa 50312.

Volunteer to be on a Committee or Be a Project Leader

There are some very definite volunteer needs that we have identified for 2009. These are the categories - we need leaders and committee members:

ü Veterans Liaison
ü Mental Health Awareness Week Coordinator
ü Child and Adolescent Coordinator
ü Education Coordinator
ü Visit hospital once a week (for a month) as part of the Hospital Exit Project
ü Distribution of brochures in Des Moines area
ü Fundraiser
ü Grant writer
ü Preparation of newsletter mailings – 2-3 hours per month
ü Occasional volunteer needs for a morning or an afternoon

Volunteer to Help With NAMI Walks

NAMI WALKS IOWA will be held on Saturday, October 3, 2009.
You can participate in the Walk in a variety of ways –
      ý Form a walk team
      ý Join a walk team
      ý Walk as an individual

And/Or

You can help support the walk by –
      ý Sponsoring a walker
      ý Being an event sponsor
      ý Donations

NAMI Greater Des Moines is looking for volunteers with the following:
--fundraising
--sponsorship recruitment

One of the questions you will be asked is what affiliate you are participating on behalf of – we would be honored if you would designate NAMI Greater Des Moines.

When you donate to the walk - if you choose to designate the NAMI Greater Des Moines local affiliate –
        40% of the funds will go to NAMI Greater Des Moines
        15% of the funds will go to NAMI National, and
        45% - will go to NAMI Iowa

If NAMI Greater Des Moines is not designated – we will receive no funds from your donation.

We would be most grateful if you would choose to designate NAMI Greater Des Moines so all three levels of our organization can benefit from your generosity.

Visit the website for more details: http://www.nami.org/namiwalks/IA
The Walk Manager is Jay Brewer – 515-321-8051
NAMIWALKSIAMGR@aol.com

Volunteer Your Stories

We would like to compile stories that illustrate mental health issues. These can be anecdotes or human interest stories which help to identify important mental health issues and problems – stigma, lack of access to services, your story and struggle in dealing with mental illness, mental health problems of returning soldiers, importance of the right medications, lack of funding, etc – real stories of Iowans.

Copies of your stories should be sent to CeCe Arnold at cece.arnold@mchsi.com. The person sending the story should “de-identify” information in the story for replication purposes but still provide attached identifying information to Cece in case she needs to contact you. Anyone with writing skills who would like to help with this project should send an E-mail.

Your help will be most appreciated. Thanks.

Science – Support – Dignity

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