Needs From: Volunteer Center of Lubbock

NAMI Lubbock is seeking Family Support Group facilitators. This is volunteer position and helps to facilitate a monthly meeting of families who have a loved one with a mental health condition.

NAMI Lubbock is the Lubbock Affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness which provides support, education, and advocacy for people living with a mental illness and their family and friends. NAMI Lubbock operates as a “Model B” affiliate under the umbrella of NAMI Texas.

Qualifications for family support group facilitators:

Facilitators must be adult family members (parents, siblings, adult children, spouses, partners, etc.) of a person with a mental health condition Facilitators must be a NAMI member before training Prospective facilitators will attend a weekend long facilitator training in order to be trained in how to facilitate a NAMI support group.

As a requirement for this role, the interested individual MUST attend at least two NAMI support group sessions before undergoing training to be a facilitator. Support group dates are available on the website here https://namilubbock.org/calendar/. After the individual is trained to be a facilitator, the ongoing monthly commitment would be to co-facilitate a 1.5 hour support group 1 to 2 times per month.

For more information about this volunteer position, please contact volunteer coordinator, Yvonne Okoro at volunteer@namilubbock.org

NAMI Lubbock is seeking Connection Recovery Support Group facilitators. This is volunteer position and helps to facilitate monthly meetings of individuals who have a mental health condition.

NAMI Lubbock is the Lubbock Affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness which provides support, education, and advocacy for people living with a mental illness and their family and friends. NAMI Lubbock operates as a “Model B” affiliate under the umbrella of NAMI Texas.

Qualifications for support group facilitators:

Facilitators are adults in recovery with a mental health condition  Facilitators must be a NAMI member before training   Prospective facilitators will attend a weekend long facilitator training in order to be trained in how to facilitate a NAMI support group.

As a requirement for this role, the interested individual MUST attend at least two NAMI support group sessions before undergoing training to be a facilitator. Support group dates are available on the website here https://namilubbock.org/calendar/. After the individual is trained to be a facilitator, the ongoing monthly commitment would be to co-facilitate a 1.5 hour support group 1 to 2 times per month.

For more information about this volunteer position, please contact volunteer coordinator, Yvonne Okoro at volunteer@namilubbock.org 

NAMI Lubbock is seeking Family to Family Teachers. This is volunteer position and helps to facilitate an 8-week training course of NAMI’s program called Family to Family. You can learn more about the Family to Family class at https://namitexas.org/family-to-family/.

NAMI Lubbock is the Lubbock Affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness which provides support, education, and advocacy for people living with a mental illness and their family and friends. NAMI Lubbock operates as a “Model B” affiliate under the umbrella of NAMI Texas.

Qualifications for teachers:

Prospective teachers must be family members (parents, siblings, adult children, spouses or partners) of a person with a mental health condition. Facilitators must be a NAMI member before training. Prospective teachers will attend a weekend long training in order to be trained in how to teach the family to family class.

As a requirement for this role, the interested individual MUST attend at least two NAMI family-to-family classes before undergoing training to be a facilitator. NAMI Family-to-Family class dates are available on the website here https://namilubbock.org/calendar/. After the individual is trained to be a facilitator, the ongoing monthly commitment would be to co-teach a Family to Family class. This class last 8 weeks, but only meetings 1 time per week for 1.5 hours each time.

For more information about this volunteer position, please contact volunteer coordinator, Yvonne Okoro at volunteer@namilubbock.org

NAMI Lubbock is seeking an advocacy coordinator. This is a volunteer position and is part of a leadership team that supports NAMI Lubbock. 

NAMI Lubbock is the Lubbock Affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness which provides support, education, and advocacy for people living with a mental illness and their family and friends. NAMI Lubbock operates as a “Model B” affiliate under the umbrella of NAMI Texas. 

The advocacy coordinator is responsible for advocating for Mental Health in the community. 

This person would work with NAMI Texas Public Policy Director to ensure NAMI Public Policy is communicated to members and local leaders.  This role helps advocate for local members throughout the community.  Ideally, this person would be trained in NAMI Smarts, an advocacy course giving you skills to help advocate for you or a loved one. 

All volunteers in leadership positions must be a member of NAMI Lubbock. 

The advocacy coordinator is expected to attend a one-hour monthly leadership team. Beyond the regular meeting, it is expected that this role can be performed in 5-10 hours of time per month. 

For more information about this volunteer position, please contact our volunteer coordinator at volunteer@namilubbock.org.

ADDITIONAL INFO 

In addition to the general job description above, this coordinator will perform the following job functions and/or coordinate others to help in those functions. 

Organize advocacy events  Teach NAMI Smarts training locally  Liase with NAMI Texas advocacy staff members  Present a report at each leadership meeting