Are you interested in helping both your local and wider community? Are you that listening ear that friends and loved ones always seem to turn to? Are you interested in using the skills you have and building on your knowledge of helping? Family of Woodstock’s upcoming hotline training is just what you’re looking for!

Twice each year Family of Woodstock’s Hotline offers its amazing training for volunteers. It’s that opportunity time again– with a twist! Family’s Hotline Volunteer training starts February 13th, and along with the essential listening and crisis intervention training for our phone and walk-in center volunteers we are adding a new piece– and a new service! It’s time for our Family, just like yours, to start texting!

Text crisis lines are a new resource and have been incredibly useful for users. Family will launch textmeback during this upcoming year, and we need our volunteers trained and working in this new capacity. If you are thinking about how you might be more useful in our community and don’t know how or where, become a Family Volunteer. If you want to truly listen to others with your mind and your heart, please call today to sign up for the next Family of Woodstock Volunteer Training!

Training covers the core of Family’s phone and texting hotline and walk-in services. Training topics include domestic violence, child abuse, mental health and substance abuse, adolescent issues, suicide, and homelessness. You will learn active, compassionate listening skills and ways to connect with people in need.

Family offers an opportunity to be part of the change you wish to see in the world. Intervention is as simple as answering a phone call or text message at the moment someone reaches out. It is as direct as offering a cup of coffee and a bag of food to someone who is hungry. It takes your skill and the amazing depth of resources Family has gathered over its 45 year history.

Call 845-679-2485 to find out more and schedule an interview or stop by 16 Rock City Road in Woodstock to fill out an application. Bring a friend. Find out what it is you’ve been waiting to do.

Sue Carroll
scarroll@familyofwoodstockinc.org

SCHEDULE:
Saturday 2/13
9am to noon – Family Intro and Listening Skills
1pm to 4pm – Listening Skills and Relationship Building

Sunday 2/14
9:30am to 1pm – SafeTALK, suicide awareness

Wednesday 2/17
6pm to 9pm – History, Confidentiality and Mandated Reporting

Saturday 2/20
9am to 5pm – Youth Mental Health First Aid

Wednesday 2/24
6pm to 9pm – Domestic Violence Issues

Saturday 2/27
9am to noon – Safe planning, Imminent Risk and Mental Health issues
1pm to 4pm – Site Visits

Wednesday 3/2
6pm to 9pm – Ethics, Boundaries and Self Care

Wednesday 3/9
6pm to 9pm – Second level training for all staff

All trainings are held at 16 Rock City Road Woodstock unless otherwise noted. All trainings are mandatory. In case of inclement weather call 679-2485 one hour before scheduled training to check on status.