Volunteer

Give an hour, share a lifetime.

If you would like to share your time and talents with MHA C-A, please let us know. Here are just a few of the ways people can volunteer:

• Share your talents! We appreciate help with everything: office management, marketing, fund raising, graphic design.
  
  
• Facilitate a Peer support group (for peer specialists only).
  
  
• Join our speakers bureau.
  
  
• Help with health fairs and community events (bilingual volunteers especially needed).
  
  
• Conduct mental health screenings (for qualified mental health professionals only).
  
  
• Join our media contact list and help with advocacy and issues of social exclusion.
  
  
• If you can direct any of the following - an art, music, pottery, or horticulture exercise or lead an outdoor walking group, we'd like to talk with you about helping us to staff a creative wellness center.
  
  
• Provide pro bono legal, financial, or personal counseling.
  
  
• Support or join us for one or more of our exciting events, including the Stamp out Stigma golf tournament, Beat the Blues music or comedy event, Walk for Wellness, and a holiday season wreath and table decorating event.
  
  
• Share your contacts. Tell a friend about MHA C-A and connect us with someone you know who might like to help us grow.
  

Take action to end stigma, discrimination and prejudice.

• Lend your name. Add your name to our list of supporters who oppose discrimination and stigma by signing our anti-discrimination declaration.
• Be positive. Respond to people who have a mental illness as individuals, not labels. Learn about the person and deal with him/her on the basis of your knowledge, not your assumptions.
• Learn. The more you know, the more you can help. Listen to people with mental illnesses. Understand that they have the same basic needs and human rights as everyone else. Education is the key to eliminating stigma and discrimination.
• Sign up for advocacy or public policy alerts and respond by contacting your representatives. Send us an email at mha@avenue.org to let us know of your interest.

To learn more about volunteer opportunities with MHA C-A, please contact us at 434.977.4673 or mha@avenue.org. The life you save may be your own.