Through personal contact with seniors, our volunteers deliver vital services to the frail elderly and forge loving bonds between generations. In the process, both volunteer and client reap a rich harvest of friendship, wisdom, and mutual appreciation.
Lead walking tours of the working waterfront. Demonstrate industry skills (net mending, rigging, knot tying, etc.). Demonstrate maritime crafts (model making, marlinspike artistry, etc.). Talk with school groups or the public about your work and life.
NAMI Family-to-Family is a twelve-week session for family members/friends who have a loved one living with mental illness. The curriculum focuses on mental illnesses and teaching the knowledge and skills family members need to cope. The Family-to-Family education session is taught with two teachers.
NAMI Connection recovery support group meetings are for people living with mental illnesses. They are peer-facilitated and provide a place that offers respect, understanding, encouragement, and hope.
Our volunteers are caring individuals who contribute significantly to the daily functioning of the Medical Center by supporting our staff in various departments, and assisting patients and their visiting families.
The possibilities are endless! Volunteer in our childcare center to read stories or play games with the children, tutor students in ESOL or help them prepare for the Hi-SET exam in Spanish, lead a health workshop, help us raise funds for our school, share your expertise in computers, or lend us a hand with our…
NAMI Basics is a six-session education program for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with emotional and behavioral disorders who developed the symptoms prior to the age of 13. The curriculum focuses on teaching the knowledge and skills family members need to cope. The course is taught with two teachers.
Creating and sharing content for our website and social media accounts, targeting key audiences and defining and executing digital and off-line marketing strategies.
Evaluating and giving context to available resources to get the right tools into the right hands, and identifying individuals, schools and districts who have experiences to share. Experienced educators are especially valuable here.
Establishing strong relationships with businesses, non-profits, educators and school systems to ensure accessibility and relevance.