Time Commitment:
Long-Term (6+ months)
Deadline to Apply:
Friday, September 19, 2025
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Volunteer Position: Women’s Art Club Co-facilitator
Name of Program: Community Development
Duration: 6 months and above
Hours Required: 3 hours per week, Thursdays between 12:30pm-3:30pm
Key Responsibilities:
- To collaborate with Crouch volunteers, the Community Development Coordinator, and staff from the Canadian Mental Health Association to support the delivery of the Women's Art Club at Crouch NRC.
- Ensuring that the Women’s Art Club is a safe space for all participants.
- Ensuring participants who experience crises during a group session are treated with sensitivity and support.
Key Tasks:
- Assist in supporting projects for once weekly women’s art group.
- Work with Basic Needs and Support Service Assistant to set up room and supplies.
- Help CMHA worker to co-facilitate the group and provide expertise, encouragement and support to participants, both individually and as a group.
- Step in to facilitate group activity if CMHA worker is called away to provide an individual participant with crisis support.
Skills and Attributes Required:
- Candidate must be female.
- Friendly, compassionate, and enthusiastic.
- Training in mental health first aid, trauma informed care and related courses.
- Flexible in role and delivery of programming according to participant needs.
- Graduate or student of art therapy program that meets CATA-ACAT standards an asset.
Skills Preferred:
Mental Health First Aid, Conflict Resolution, De-escalation, Trauma-informed