Volunteer opportunities are available to those wishing to make a difference in their own and others' lives. Volunteers who chose to make the commitment to one-on-one friendship programs must be at least 19 years of age, make a minimum commitment of at least four hours per month and attend required training and interviews. There are also many other volunteer opportunities for those interested in making a difference in people's lives.

General Volunteer Application Compeer Volunteer Application Compeer Client Info Form

	Community Educators (mental health month, professional conference, older adult depression/stress awareness, and more)
	Hands of Hope volunteers (July to Dec)
	Human Race participant (January to March)
	General Volunteers

Compeer Friends is a peer-mentoring program of friendship and independence for adults receiving mental health treatment (consumers). This program helps consumers become healthier, more independent members of our community. We are most interested in recruiting volunteers who are over the age of 21, in recovery from psychiatric illness and want to share their experiences. You can help someone today just by being their friend.

Compeer Connections volunteers help consumers become more independent and help teach them how to relax and have fun with classes like cooking, money management, job skills, yoga and other fun activities. These skills lead participants to have greater independence. Classes can be once or several times or on going. What can YOU teach?

Community Educators help the Mental Health Association in Greensboro tell the many stories of psychiatric illness and of recovery. Volunteers are speakers in the community or assist with workshops, programs and seminars on mental health and mental illness for the general public and training for therapists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

Hands of Hope volunteers recruit sponsors and donations for children and adults who are mental health patients at John Umstead State Psychiatric Hospital, Moses Cone-Wesley Long Behavioral Health Center, and other local facilities.

Human Race participants walk, run or roll with us on the 3rd Saturday in March, to help us raise money and awareness of the importance of mental health.

General Volunteers assist with mailings, copying, filing and special projects. These volunteers are a very important part of helping us to complete the everyday work that needs to be done to make our programs run smoothly.

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