The Mental Health Education Initiative (MHEI) in Chittenden County, VT
  Our mission is to promote recovery from mental/emotional disorders by increasing hope,
  understanding, and reducing stigma.   MHEI is a speakers' bureau.

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Get Involved - Why? How?

If you share MHEI's mission - to promote hope and understanding about "mental illness"- then we want you to become a member. Be a speaker or work behind the scenes doing a variety of tasks.

You will feel good about yourself, have a sense of purpose...

You will gain a sense of belonging...

You will enjoy the people you meet...

You will make a difference...

You can choose what to do - all the way from being a speaker to doing errands.

Step one: Do you strongly agree with our mission? if yes, go on...
Step two: Look through the list of "jobs" we usually need someone to do, thinking  about whether you have the skill for any of them.
Step three: Think about whether you would enjoy doing them.
Step four: Go to the "Contact Us" page and call or send a message by email.

Types of tasks:
  • Coordinate:
    Supervise and support others to do tasks for a project

  • Be a skill trainer
    Facilitate others’ learning how to do things

  • Be a teacher
  • Facilitate others’ gaining knowledge

  • Work with a computer
           Type up documents (word processing) and saving as RTFs
          Use Excel or other program for bookkeeping
           Make/edit United Way’s volunteer website listings
        Do website design and maintenance
    Do desktop publishing

  • Be an advisor
    Help to make plans and find ways to implement those plans

  • Be a presenter
    Be a speaker, artist, or other kind of presenter

  • Be a meeting facilitator
    Keep group on agenda, on task, feeling good

  • Write
    Write articles for newsletter
    Write up meeting minutes
    Write proposals for projects/funding
    Write reports
    Write up agendas
     
  • Do administrative assisting
     Make phone calls
    Make photocopies
           Find missing contact information
       Maintain/improve databases of contact information and more

  • Do graphic design
    Make flyers for events
      Make brochure designs

  • Other
    Do errands
    Find a drop-in office space for us to use during workdays and/or early evening
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