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14 people are interested
Workshop Support Volunteers Needed for Arts and Mental Health Event
ORGANIZATION: Art With Impact
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14 people are interested
Art With Impact (AWI), a nonprofit organization that uses the arts to reduce stigma around mental health issues, is seeking volunteers to help out at their next event!
About the Event
We will be hosting a Movies for Mental Health (M4MH) workshop on Wednesday, March 21 at Bakersfield College, from 12:30pm to 2:30pm (volunteers arrive at 11:30am).
Our M4MH workshop is a 2-hour interactive workshop on college campuses that creates space for students to have open and honest conversations about mental health. They involve interactive discussion, watching and responding to short films about different mental health issues, and a panel of speakers talking about lived experience stories, and mental health resources available to students on-campus and in the community. The workshops are incredibly powerful, eye-opening, and inspiring, as it’s not often that we get to truly talk about these complex issues. The vast majority of students who attend report that the workshop increased awareness of mental health issues, reduced stigma around mental illness, and increased their likelihood to seek mental health support if they need it.
Workshop Support Volunteers
Our Workshop Support Volunteers (that’s you!) are an incredibly important aspect of our work. The workshop will be led by one of our facilitators, and they can’t do it alone! They will be setting up and leading the workshop, and there are a lot of moving parts involved. Your tasks as a Workshop Support Volunteer could include:
Having a phone call with AWI’s Program Director to discuss the details of volunteering, and to learn more about AWI and the M4MH workshop
Checking in with the AWI Workshop Facilitator a few days prior to the event over the phone to go over the day-of details
Arriving at the workshop one hour before the event starts
Assisting with the setup of the AWI table of resources
Passing out and collecting pre- and post-workshop surveys
Typing into the Powerpoint while the facilitator is running the workshop
Taking photos throughout the workshop
After the workshop, representing AWI at the resource table, chatting with students about AWI, and helping with any logistical clean-up before leaving the event
If there are multiple volunteers, you will not need to do all of these tasks, so don’t worry if there’s anything in that list that you wouldn’t want to do.
If you’re interested in being a Workshop Support Volunteer for this event (or any others with AWI), please reach out to Hawa at hawa@artwithimpact.org, including the school where the workshop will take place, and a little bit about yourself and your connection to the arts / mental health. Thank you!
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About Art With Impact
Location:
5214F Diamond Heights Blvd. #454, San Francisco, CA 94131, US
Mission Statement
Art With Impact promotes mental wellness by creating space for young people to learn and connect through art and media.
Description
AWI is committed to a future where artists are revered as cultural icons of courage and change, enabling young people to communicate freely and fearlessly about their mental health. To fulfill this vision, Art With Impact:
- Provides structured, safe spaces to learn, cultivate empathy, and reduce stigma in all regions of North America, connecting individuals to comprehensive mental health resources
- Continues to expand and make available the world’s most diverse and compelling collection of short films on mental health, supporting a network of filmmakers, artists and young people in an interactive online community
- Maximizes collaboration between art and mental health by engaging professionals and academic institutions through sustainable partnerships and transparency of methods and outcomes
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1801 Panorama DrBakersfield CollegeBakersfield, CA 93305
DATE POSTED
January 19, 2018
SKILLS
- Networking
- People Skills
- Event Planning / Management
- Relationship Building
- Ushering
- Customer Service
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 1 hour prep, 3.5 hours at event