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Lead a weekly phone group in Spanish for older people
ORGANIZATION: One Community
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7 people are interested
Do you enjoy older people? Are you bi-lingual in Spanish and English? The Sharing Network is looking for you. Lead a conversation group for older Spanish speakers who get together weekly by phone. Groups are organized around topics you like to talk about such as food, tv, living in the United States, health, art, music, religion, family. Contact us so we can find the right theme for your group.
Our innovative program uses the phone to create opportunities to socialize for homebound seniors living in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Participants are isolated because of health concerns, mobility limitations or other circumstances. We work with people who lack technological savvy, so we've made sure even people with just a landline can benefit from our program.
Join us in building community among participants by presenting hour-long conversation- and activity groups led by volunteer moderators. Volunteers should be good talkers and have skills and interests they want to share with participants, predominantly low-income people in their 60s-80s. Volunteers over 50 are encouraged to apply, and we also encourage younger volunteers who interact comfortably with older folks to contact us.
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About One Community
Location:
13 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238, US
Mission Statement
One Community calls for Fort Greene and Clinton Hill residents and institutions to employ the powerful tools at their disposal, individually and as a community, to reduce inequality, dismantle divisions, and share the contributions which each part of the community offers We focus attention on inequality and separation, catalyze a fairer and freer allocation of resources and help remove impediments to change.
Description
Many local organizations do important, effective community work core activities. One Community asks that they explore how to maximize the number of local people in their community programs.One Community asks institutions to make local equal opportunity and the dismantling neighborhood barriers high-level institutional goals. Participating organizations will broadly and creatively examine all their operations to see what they can do as service providers, employers, owners of facilities, leaders and advocates, trainers and educators, etc. to advance local equity and sharing. The leading institutions will confer on an executive organization-wide authority to promote the goals.
CAUSE AREAS
Community,
Immigrants & Refugees,
Seniors
WHEN
Mon Mar 06, 2023 - Fri May 05, 2023
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
February 19, 2023
SKILLS
- Elder care
- Mental Health
- Spanish
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- The group will meet an hour weekly for at least six weeks. Volunteers also a tend a one-hour training on Zoom.