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Do you identity as Black, of African or Caribbean descent? Are you struggling with substance use or misuse issues?

Adult Team Coach

Employer: 
Hearing Every Youth Through Youth
Start date: 
3 March 2010 (All day)
Position type: 
Volunteer
Application deadline: 
Feb 13 2010 (All day)

Apply To

Contact name: 
Nikki Roberts
Location:
Phone: 
(416) 423-4399
Fax: 
(416) 698-6718

HEYY (Hearing Every Youth Through Youth) offers non-judgmental peer-to-peer support for youth over the phone and on-line. We are there to listen to callers’ problems and concerns, and help them identify their own solutions. We also offer information and referrals on health, sexuality, employment, housing, school problems… We are recruiting for our 2010 training session. We are looking for committed younthfriendly adults to mentor and support our youth volunteers. Adult mentors go through twelve weeks of training on current youth issues with the youth volunteers. Training is held on Wednesday evenings from 6-9, in a confidential central location. (No training during March Break) Topics include counseling, harm reduction, mental health, eating issues, violence, STI’s, birth control, healthy relationships, homophobia, transphobia, anti-racism, anti-oppression, crisis counseling and many more. Applications are available at WWW.HEYY.NET under contact us. Please note that adult mentors must have a police records check. Training begins March 3, 2010 and All volunteers are asked to commit for two-shifts a month for one year. That’s only 6 hours a month. Questions or concerns, please call HEYY Monday-Friday from 6-9 @ 416 423 4399 and talk to our trained youth volunteers.