Volunteer Opportunity Details:

We would like a volunteer to come to the Clubhouse and work with a group of interested members to create a weekly Clubhouse broadcast. We have videotape equipment to use to record members anchoring the organization's weekly news and announcements, the weekly forecast and clips of general interest to the clubhouse.
This is a new pilot based on successful weekly broadcasts at other Clubhouses nationwide. (see www.ICCD.org "What is a clubhouse" tab) Through this venture, our members will learn to use this type of media and have fun in the process! This broadcast will help us with communication overall since all members will be able to hear the weekly news and announcements that they may miss if they are not here at the Clubhouse every day.

This volunteer should have basic knowledge of video cameras and videotaping techniques and like to work with a variety of people.

This opportunity is sponsored by: Racine Friendship Clubhouse

We need volunteers who are free at these times Weekdays This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Adults (26-54) Unpaid Interns Adults (55+) Young Adults (18-25)

Contact Person: Jo Ann Rodriguez, Executive Director, (262) 636-9393, (email) View all agency contacts

Address:

2000-17th Street Racine, WI 53403 (See a map)

Directions:

Three blocks east of Taylor and 17th and one block north of Racine Human Services/Workforce Development

5 Overall Experience   
Volunteering at the Racine Friendship Clubhouse has been amazing!

I am volunteering at the Racine Friendship Clubhouse as a Computer Instructor. My experience has been very rewarding. I am always greeted with a smile, people know me by name and are very welcoming. I am in a very safe environment and am allowed to spend one-on-one quality time with the members. The best gift I have received is a smile on someone's face after I helped her send an e-mail to her daughter! Something so many of us take for granted, yet for this person it meant so much. This is what volunteering is all about! posted by sheila1 on March 19, 2009

5 Overall Experience   
This is a wonderful group of members and volunteering for 4 years has be a fun and rewarding place to volunteer.

Each one of us knows someone with mental illness. The people with mental illness are the same as we meet on the street each day. Helping these people makes them be able to do many things they would not be able to do without the Friendship House. The clliend friends I have made at the Friendship House are happy and smiling as they open the door and they know I am there to help the Club house be a better place for them to spend the day. posted on March 9, 2009