| Last updated on July 8, 2008 |
 Learn basic counseling techniques as you help distressed parents.
“A person in crisis is feeling strong emotions and helping that person identify those emotions and hear an outsider’s perspective on facts of the situation can be an effective way to help the person feel that he/she can begin to cope”.
At the Parental Stress Line, a small grass-roots organization that has
been helping distressed parents for over 26 years, we work to support families of all backgrounds and situations through telephone counseling. With us, parents will find a safe place; free, confidential, anonymous, and non-judgmental, where they can communicate their concerns about their children.
We work together with parents to develop and build positive and rewarding relationships with their kids, so that the children will become considerate, healthy and positive members of their communities.
Commitment includes one 4 hour shift per week. Training and ongoing supervision will be provided. After training is complete, volunteers have the option to take calls from home.
Contact: info@parentshelpingparents.org
All empathetic individuals are welcome. Parenting experience is not required.
You can volunteer from home or at our office.
Training is provided in our Watertown offices.
On-going opportunity.
This opportunity is sponsored by: Parents Helping Parents - The Roundtable of Support
We need volunteers who are free at these times
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| Weekly |
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This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers
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| Adults (26-54) |
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Contact Person:
Lalita Nakarmi, Office Manager, (phone), (email)
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Training will take place in our Watertown offices. After training, volunteers have the option to take calls from home through our call routing system. |
Web Site: http://www.parentshelpingparents.org
Volunteer Reflections
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Overall Experience 
Being a volunteer facilitator has been meaningful and fulfilling.
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I volunteer as a facilitator for Parents Helping Parents. I meet weekly at a women's prison group to talk about parenting issues with the residents. I received excellent training and support from the organization, and there is always someone available to discuss issues with that take place in my group. I have learned a lot about group dynamics, improved my listening and reflecting skills, and how to let people take responsibility for their own solutions to problems.
posted by Volunteer Facilitator on June 16, 2005 |
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