Volunteer Young Person's Resilience

Volunteers make an enormous contribution to our work at Change Grow Live.

Last year over 1400 volunteers donated over a quarter of million hours of their time to our organisation.

Would you like to join our growing team of volunteers and make a real difference

A Young Persons Resilience Worker is a frontline role supporting our Young Persons Service (aged 1024) facing challenges with substance use. To help young people reduce risk build confidence and develop healthy life skills through one-to-one support group programs and educational workshops.

Key Activities:

• Support to engage young people who have drug and alcohol issues and provide them with advice support and structured interventions to support their health and wellbeing needs.
• Support Resilience Workers to carry out comprehensive assessments risk assessments & plans and contribute to the development of recovery planning.
• Document all Service User contact on case management systems in a timely manner.
• Support Resilience Workers with one-to-one key work sessions; increasing drug and alcohol awareness and delivering harm reduction advice.

Who Can Apply

• You must be 18 or older.

Benefits of Volunteering

• Travel expenses from your home to your service are covered.
• You receive comprehensive training and support.
• You build valuable skills and make a real difference in the Liverpool area.

Training:

Attendance on training is an essential part for the volunteer role.

• Mandatory: Volunteer induction training
• Mandatory: Boundaries/Confidentiality training
• Required: Drug awareness training
• Required: Harm reduction training
• Required: Alcohol awareness training