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Volunteer Opportunities
The following opportunities are available to those individuals interested in serving a cause that desperately needs your help. Your time and talents benefit the lives of many families and individuals fighting the War on Drugs.
- Special Events
Participate in youth activities and/or fundraising events; assist in planning an event; volunteer at the event; solicit prizes/auction items; prepare post-event acknowledgements; utilize special skills that could help for the event (i.e. photography, graphic arts, etc.)
- Office Rescue
Assist with mailings, copying, filing; answer phones and/or make phone contacts; prepare packets/manuals; laminate materials; make posters, props; grade student pre/post tests, surveys; assist in update/maintenance of NCADA library.
- Public Awareness - Community Outreach
Attend health fairs as an NCADA representative; show films/videos to community groups; distribute posters or other promotional materials to schools, churches, businesses; assist in advocacy efforts.
- Senior Awareness Project - "Recipe For Trouble"
Serve as a peer group facilitator to speak with seniors on effects of both mixing medications and taking alcohol with medications; help coordinate presentations with various senior citizen groups.
- "Formula for Prevention"
Serve as a facilitator for a public awareness program to persuade women of child-bearing years and their male counterparts to abstain from drinking, smoking, and/or using other drugs before and during pregnancy and to make healthy decisions after the baby is born; help coordinate presentations at various college campuses, corporate offices, social service agencies, etc.
- Book BEES (Building Essential Empowerment Skills)
Present a "Prevention by the Book" program designed to teach early prevention lessons via traditional children's literature; read a story to preschool-aged children and follow-up with a related activity.
Additional Information
The possibilities for serving NCADA are endless, whether on the basis of an ongoing or short-term commitment. Volunteer opportunities are also available for special groups interested in doing community service projects.
Getting Involved
• Did anything here catch your eye?
• Do you want to do your part to help keep children and teens healthy and drug-free?
If you answered "yes" to either of the above questions, or you would like additional information, please contact our volunteer coordinator Lynne Steinman at at (314) 962-3456. We appreciate your interest in serving NCADA!
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