Set up and share in a holiday party with men in recovery from addiction

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Holiday Party for Recovery

Program: VOA’s Men’s Residential Center

Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Time:

• 1st Shift: 8am - Noon (3-4 volunteers)
• 2nd Shift: Noon - 3:30pm (5 volunteers)
• Event: 3:30 - 6:30pm (all welcome!)

Location: Men’s Residential Center - 2318 NE MLK Blvd.

Goals / Benefits: Offer vital support to program staff, creating a quality event for clients. Share your creative vision and holiday spirit. Enjoy a shared meal, festive atmosphere, and get first-hand, direct experience with a community that achieves effective substance abuse treatment. Enjoy the satisfaction of planning the party and then enjoy a meal and festivities with clients in recovery.

Tasks:

• 1st Shift
  • Support kitchen staff with food prep

• 2nd Shift
  • Decorate program common areas to create holiday atmosphere
  • Arrange tables, chairs, dishes, and other needed items
  • Gift-wrapping (could be kitchen staff who stay for lunch and help for 1-2 hours in the afternoon)

• Meal - (3:30 onward)
  • Share a meal with the clients you have worked to support!

Description of MRC Program: MRC’s mission is to provide treatment, education and prevention both to our participants and to the larger community. Our efforts are validated as individuals choose recovery and are able to rebuild relationships with their families and become better dads, husbands, and sons. The MRC embraces a culture of celebration and recovery. Our participants and alumni are honored and celebrate recovery in a multitude of ways. Through coming to our annual block party, picnics, alumni celebration, or playing on our alumni clean and sober softball team, individuals here discover how to celebrate life without the use of substances.