- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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13 people are interested
Help serve a holiday meal to 220 men in recovery shelter
ORGANIZATION: Chicago Fun Volunteers
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
13 people are interested
You do not need to express interest and wait for reply email. To sign up directly, please RSVP on this link:
https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Fun-Volunteers/events/257169730
Join chef Gary Wiviott (Pitmaster, Barn & Company, Author: Low & Slow) to help serve a holiday meals to 220 men at the The Salvation Army Harbor Light Center, a drug and alcohol treatment facility for men. The highlight of the menu will be standing rib roast. This is the 13th year Chef Gary and his team of professional chefs and volunteers have been serving the men at Harbor Light.
Friends and family are welcome to join you in volunteering. The more the merrier.
Main Shift time: 4 pm to 7:30 pm
Tasks: prep/carting/slicing/serving/cleaning (this is where we need the most volunteers to serve 220 clients promptly)
If the main dinner shift time doesn't work for you, here are some limited volunteer slots in other times that you can sign up for and come help:
9 AM Early prep (meat)
11 AM Prep (veg, sides)
12:30 PM lunch
2 PM pre dinner prep
Please wear comfortable clothes and non slip shoes as you will be walking around a lot to help serve dinner. Gym shoes will be fine. You may be asked to wear a hair net, or you can bring a baseball cap to manage your hair during food prep or serving tasks. Free parking on street and in their lot is available.
About Harbor Light Center:
For more than 70 years in two previous locations on Chicago’s West Side, The Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Center has provided comprehensive, specialized services to help people overcome their addiction to drugs or alcohol and successfully reclaim their lives in a safe, structured and secure environment.
In addition to providing intensive rehabilitation treatment in a residential setting, the Harbor Light Center offers outpatient transitional services and other programs to support long-term success and recovery, such as employment training and a transitional jobs program. Offering a sequence of programs and treatment levels enables clients to set and achieve personal, positive objectives to overcome their addiction, re-establish their lives and return to their families and communities as productive citizens.
The Harbor Light Center in Chicago is one of The Salvation Army’s largest residential substance abuse recovery programs in the country, with accommodations for up to 200 men. Clients in the residential program have private rooms and may stay for four to five years to achieve rehabilitation and stability.
The new Harbor Light Center will be a bright, modern residential facility with updated private rooms, a basketball court, indoor and outdoor gymnasiums, classrooms and many other amenities that will significantly enhance clients’ treatment, recovery and sense of dignity.
For more information on Salvation Army Harbor Light Center, please visit:
http://www.safreedom.org/harbor-light-center/
For more information on Chef and author Gary Wiviott, Please visit:
http://lowslowbbq.com/
You do not need to express interest and wait for reply email. To sign up directly, please RSVP on this link:
https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Fun-Volunteers/events/257169730
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About Chicago Fun Volunteers
Location:
Online Organization, Chicago, IL 60601, US
Mission Statement
To be a host of volunteer opportunities for all community members to post and share their events with other volunteers. To creat a fun and social atmosphere for volunteers while harnessing the power of social media and social networking to help, build, and strengthen our community together.
Description
Chicago Fun Volunteers is an online not-for-profit organization using social media to bring people and other charity organizations together. We believe you meet the most amazing people and make the best of friends while helping others through volunteering. We have calendar of volunteer events for every day of the year, and over 4000 volunteers seeking and creating new service opportunities to share with each other to help build, improve and strengthen our community.
Join our free Meetup group and help our large and active community of volunteers to do good while having fun. Our Calendar of events works on your schedule. You pick the event that fits the day and time and your interest.
Our Members keep tabs on opportunities all over the city and surrounding suburbs and share them with each other. Everybody is allow to post service events on the main calendar and share their passions and get support by fellow members.
We have volunteer events supporting all causes, including nature conservation and clean up, after school programs, tutoring for kids, animal wellfare and protection, spending time with seniors in nursing homes, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, refugee advocacy, food pantries, knitting for babies in hospitals, and much more. If you do not see your cause listed, then you can share and post something you want us to support, and we will come help.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Salvation Army Harbor Light Center (new location)825 N Christiana AveChicago, IL 60651
DATE POSTED
December 12, 2018
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 14