Community Mental Health Organizer

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Project LETS (www.LetsEraseTheStigma.com) is a non-profit organization working on a local and national level to support and ensure the civil rights of mentally ill folks (or folks whose experiences are often classified as mental illness) through peer-led communities, advocacy efforts, and political change.

Main roles include:

• Representing Project LETS in your community- and serving as a point-person for resources and information on mental health/illness, trauma, disability, and neurodiversity

• Advocating for the inclusion of Project LETS programs and initiatives in your local school districts [middle schools and high schools]

• Researching organizations and mental health-related resources in your community for the Project LETS resource directory

• Researching local and state policy related to mental illness & disability- and consolidating into resource sheets

• Connecting and mobilizing in coalition with other organizations in your community on local efforts

• Reporting to the Executive Director on a weekly basis [check in’s]

• Maintaining and adjusting deadlines appropriately

• Maintaining work accountability (Google Drive, Trello, GCal)

• Collaboratively determining strategy and priorities to focus on

• Engaging in our Community Organizer Facebook Group

• You can: move quickly, lane change, prioritize, time-manage, follow-up, communicate

• Awesome organizational skills to work independently (motivated self-starter!) and manage projects with many moving parts (& managing your own schedule)

• Experience with leadership and project management

• Ability to be detail-oriented and see the bigger picture

• Cultural and structural competence; experience working with directly-affected and marginalized populations

• Ability to consolidate many resources and pieces of information into one resource

• Loud and proud! Comfort speaking to and engaging with others [via phone, email, in-person, etc.]

• Experience with public speaking

• Comfort working from laptop and not necessarily in an office-space together!

• Radically minded, anti-oppression based framework for approaching mental illness