Home Volunteer and Teacher Oppurtunities

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl 

NAMI Pasco needs your help.  At this point in our development, we are an ALL-volunteer organization serving consumers with psychiatric disabilities and their families, friends and loved ones. 

Here are just a few of the ways you can make a difference in someone's life (and your own):

Help the Board of Directors with administrative tasks: collate brochures and prepare mailings;

Advocate for mental health consumer and family issues by identifying and supporting helpful/harmful legislation, calling, writing and visiting legislators and local public officials;

Staff a NAMI Pasco table at college and community events;

Prepare, submit and follow-up grant requests to foundations, public agencies and local philanthropists (businesses and individuals);

When available, receive Family2Family, Peer-to-Peer, NAMI Connection or In Our Own Voice training and offer these NAMI resources to the Pasco community;

Help with the NAMI Christmas Party and Picnic;

Become a community coordinator for local psychiatric hospitals to help inpatient consumers identify and access community resources like NAMI and DBSA among others;

Share your favorite Internet links to place on our website;

 Brainstorm ways for NAMI Pasco to raise funds and become more visible and effective in our community.

  Please contact our president, Gloria Strother at GloriaStrother@verizon.net  with your volunteer interests and ideas.

WHY VOLUNTEER?

There are so many good reasons to volunteer:

• Make new friends,
• Build social networks,
• Learn new skills,
• Improve your resume (employers LOVE to see community invovlement),
• Make a difference in your life and others around you,
• Develop empathy and compassion,
• Bring happiness to others around you and most importantly, yourself,
• Challenege yourself,
• Have fun,
• And, Improve your health (no kidding: check out the research!)

HOW TO BECOME A NAMI TEACHEER OR A GROUP LEADER

For a printable description of qualifications and procedures for NAMI Pasco teacher and facilitator applicants, please click here. 

For a printable application of the Teacher Training form for all of the following:

·         Family to Family

·         Peer to Peer

·         In Our Own Voice

·         NAMI Basics

please click here.

For a printable application for the NAMI Connection recovery support group facilitator training, please click here.

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