Teen Committee Volunteer

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**Although this is a virtual opportunity, we need you to be accessible to Central New Jersey as approximately 4 meetings a year will be in-person.

Spring Reins of Life offers a unique equine-assisted therapy that is designed for teens experiencing anxiety, anger, depression, and trauma related issues. We need your help to expand awareness and presence in the community, find funding for our teen programs, and to reach teens in need. We are searching for professionals within or connected to educational, correctional, or counseling of youth and teens. However, anyone with a passion for animals helping our youth manage stress and adversities is enough to join our Herd of volunteers! Although this is a virtual opportunity, we need you to be accessible to Central New Jersey as approximately 4 meetings a year will be in-person.

More specifically, we are seeking Teen Committee Volunteers to:

• Assist SRoL in an initial focused outreach to teen advocacy programs in the Central New Jersey, Philadelphia and NYC region to create partnerships for programming. Both SRoL’s co-founder and teens mental health professional will be available to give presentations once interest is established. End goal is for SRoL to host small private demos for decision makers to attend with the horses to explore EAP for their teen populations. In the past this has proven to be an 'aha’ moment as to How horses can help.
• Recruit participants for our 'open’ Teens & Horses sessions. Currently we host four 4week groups for 8 teens per year with 2 in the Spring and 2 in the Fall. We will expand this based on need/demand. This group is designed for local youth/teens who are not in residential or organizational groups. There is a co-pay of $150 per participant which covers all 4 sessions. Teens can be recruited from school behaviorists, school counselors, therapists, parents, Tri-County CMO, CASA, DYFS, etc.
• Expand community awareness, support and partnerships to serve more teens and youth who have experienced trauma and generate interest to attend SRoL’s annual open house / demo day each year on the first Sunday in June.
• Search for specific funding opportunities through local foundations and donors who advocate for at risk youth and teens.

Your Commitment:

• Serve the Teens Committee for a period of one year, with the option to remain on the committee beyond that
• Average of 2 hours per week to complete quarterly initiatives
• Attendance of a monthly committee meeting or call (most likely a conference call with 3 to 4 meetings being in person)
• Turning in progress reports and contacts to the committee administrative volunteer in a timely manner (there is an admin assigned to this committee to take minutes at meetings, gather and record all data records, schedule monthly meetings, and support committee members)
• Work in line with committee initiatives which may be independently or with other committee member(s) depending on task.
• The committee Chair along with the Admin will set out the annual and quarterly initiatives and goals and delegate to members based on background, expertise, ability.
• This committee recruits interns from local colleges and universities on a semester basis to learn, support and execute quarterly goals for SRoL teens programming.

Please consider lending your skills and time to a very important piece of our dedicated mission.