CHCMC/SOS is Hiring!

Some great job opportunities from the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center:

Hello friends and supporters,

We hope you are enjoying the heat and gearing up for summer – we are! Check out these job opportunities we have now and in the fall.

• We are looking to hire a part-time Americorps (paid) volunteer immediately. The job will include researching and organizing resource providers in Crown Heights as well as working with our walk-in clients. The ideal candidate will start ASAP and will work about 20 hours/week between now and September 30th. See a full job description here.
• SOS will be hiring few to conduct street surveys towards the end of June. Email crownheightsjobs@gmail.com with “survey jobs” in the subject line if you’re interested.
• Looking forward… We will soon be recruiting for full-time Americorps positions beginning October 1st, 2011. Volunteers will be members of the New York Juvenile Justice Corps. Check out our blog or come to our office for updates on the positions available.

For more information about the Mediation Center, check out their next event:

Leadership Training Institute Graduation Ceremony - Join us as we congratulate the recent graduates of LTI, who engaged in twelve weeks of leadership training and organized a major community resource fair!

Wednesday, June 15

6:00-8:00pm

LaunchPad

721 Franklin Ave.

Light refreshments will be served.

Peer-to-Peer Course

Some helpful information and classes on mental illness, a topic addressed at the last CHCA meeting:

Peer-to-Peer is a unique, nine-week, experience-based program for people with any serious mental illness who wish to establish and maintain their wellness and recovery.

Taught by a team of trained "mentors" who are living healthy and productive lives with mental illness, participants will learn the tools needed to take control of their own wellness and recovery.

Class topics will include: understanding psychiatric disorders and medication; addressing stigma, discrimination and relationship issues; how to identify telltale feelings, thoughts, behaviors or events that may warn of impending relapse; how to create your own "relapse prevention plan"; and survival skills for working with providers and the general public.

Kings County Hospital

451 Clarkson Avenue

R Building, Room 3022

Start Date:

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Time

6:00-8:00pm

Contact NAMI East Flatbush at 718-512-5269 or email namieastflatbush@aol.com to register.

Space is limited (class capacity 15) so call today to register!

NAMI East Flatbush meetings are held the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month.

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

395 Lennox Road (b/w New York Avenue & East 34th St)

Room 1B

6:00-8:00pm

NAMI Conexion meets the 2nd Monday of the month.

Kings County Hospital Center

451 Clarkson Avenue

R Building, Room 3022

6:00-8:00pm

NYPD Youth Police Academy

from teamtish:

New York Police Department Community Affairs has announced that the department is starting a YOUTH POLICE ACADEMY that will be open to children who are in school, ages 10-16.

The program will run from Tuesday, July 5, 2011 until Thursday, August 11, 2011. Please call the Office of Council Member Letitia James for more information at (212) 788-7081.