Run a Weekly Arts & Crafts Group

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The BRC Palace Employment program is a 110-bed men’s shelter designed for those in need of job training and employment. Located in the former Palace Hotel on the Bowery, the program-oriented shelter provides temporary housing for a period of six to nine months. During this time, clients are guided through a structured continuum of treatment and training designed to give them the skills they need to address any substance abuse and/or health issues and to find and maintain permanent employment and housing. In the same building is the Bowery Safe Haven, which houses clients that are chronically street homeless individuals who have not been successful in other environments, but are willing to leave the streets and work on securing permanent housing. As a low-demand program, participants are not required to maintain sobriety and do not have any curfew; the one requirement upon entering is that they actively work toward obtaining housing.

If you enjoy painting, drawing, creating collages, or simply using any supplies available to express yourself artistically, we would love to put your talents to work with a weekly arts and crafts group. Through art, our clients are able to express themselves in ways that they may not know themselves, and this would be a fantastic vehicle with which we can help them in their ongoing services. We are rather flexible with days and times, however a weekend or weekday afternoon would be ideal. So bring your talents and host a group!

PLEASE NOTE: In order to insure the integrity of the BRC volunteer program, as well as the well being of the clients we service, all interested parties must complete a New Volunteer Registration form and attend an orientation, prior to receiving an assignment. Apologies, but we are unable to accept walk-ins.