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3 people are interested
Volunteer as a support group facilitator at the Muscular Dystrophy Association
ORGANIZATION: Muscular Dystrophy Association - Greater San Francisco & Bay Area
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3 people are interested
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is seeking a volunteer to serve as support group facilitator for a quarterly group for people living with Muscular Dystrophy and their caregivers. We are looking for someone with experience as a social worker, counselor, has mindfulness training or has experience supporting people with life-threatening conditions, addressing grief and loss and related support group experience.
The group would meet 4 times a year (Quarterly) either in San Jose or the East Bay Area. (There will be one group in each location.)
Who we are?
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is leading the fight to free individuals - and the families who love them - from the harmful effects of muscular dystrophy, ALS and related muscle-debilitating diseases. Together with our supporters, we’re helping kids and adults live longer and grow stronger. And here is how:
Cure: Finding research breakthroughs across related diseases,
Care: Caring for kids and adults from day one at 150 MDA care centers at top hospitals in US and Puerto Rico
Champion: empowering families with services and support.
To learn more, look at our website: www.mda.org
What is Muscular Dystrophy?
Muscular Dystrophy is an umbrella term used to describe the 43 different muscle conditions that MDA offers assistance to. They range from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy to Spinal Muscular Atrophy and lesser known ones such as Bethlem Myopathy. All of these muscle-debilitating diseases take away physical strength, independence, and life."
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About Muscular Dystrophy Association - Greater San Francisco & Bay Area
Location:
1080 Marina Village Pkwy, Suite 500, Alameda, CA 94501, US
Mission Statement
MDA is leading the fight to free individuals -- and the families who love them -- from the harm of muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases that take away physical strength, independence and life. Together with our supporters, we’re helping kids and adults live longer and grow stronger.
Description
The freedom to walk, to talk, to run and play. To laugh, to hug. To eat. To breathe. Each day across the country, these everyday freedoms are taken away from kids and adults with muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases that weaken muscle strength and severely limit mobility.
MDA takes a big-picture perspective across neuromuscular diseases to uncover breakthroughs that will accelerate treatments and cures. The power in this research approach is that knowledge and information from one disease can often yield progress in others to speed urgently needed answers for families.
Here are some of MDA’s current highlights:
* Funding about 150 MDA research projects around the world
* Awarded nearly 70 MDA research grants in 2016 with a total funding commitment of more than $16 million
* Contributed to dozens of clinical trials now underway
* In 2016, the FDA approved the first disease-modifying drugs to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
East BayAlameda, CA 94501
DATE POSTED
September 1, 2017
SKILLS
- Counseling / Mental Health
- Healthcare
- Family Therapy
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 4 times a year (quarterly). Each meeting is 3h.