Cerenity Recovery Café
Give a gift of your time!
We have several ways you can give your time to our community. From teaching a class to planning events, we have a role for everyone! Some roles are also available remotely! Contact our Program Administrator, Stephanie Ileka (info@cerenityrecoverycafe.org) with any questions!
— Volunteer with Us
Serve our community at our Recovery Café as a Café Companion!
- Teach a class or workshop
- Handy with hands/Crafty
- Culinary
- Concession Selling
- Café Companion
- Other:
— Teach a class or workshop with our members: Do you have a skill, hobby, or talent that you would like to teach others?
- The School for Recovery gives Café members and non-members the chance to grow, heal, discover, take risks, and surprise themselves by doing and becoming what they never thought possible. While the word “recovery” doesn’t appear in most of the course titles, every single class is designed to provide support, wisdom, and companions for the hard work of making healthier choices as we live with whatever it is we are recovering from.
- The School for Recovery desires to offer classes to holistically support the journeys of each member. Class topics can range from health/wellness, nutrition, yoga, spirituality, job/career preparation, healthy relationships, relapse prevention and more!
—Serve as a Café Companion:
- After volunteer orientation, this role allows you to connect individually with members and guests in the Recovery Café space to talk, listen, play games, cards, read, share stories, or conduct various tasks. This is an essential role in providing the loving, hospitable camaraderie that makes the Recovery Café such a unique and positive place. Listening and caring is the way love shines through.
—Facilitate Recovery Circles with our Members!
- Individually engage with members by helping to facilitate recovery circles!
- Recovery circles allow members to build community among each other and go through recovery together.
- Certified Recovery Specialist certification is required.
— Provide Community Connections & Recovery Resources
- One of our key goals is to provide a growing awareness of the Recovery Café in the community. We need help in connecting to community providers, recovery resources, members of the Café, supporters, and funders of the Café.
- Duties in this role may include but are not limited to booth and community outreach, story gathering and/or photography, or tabling certain events to share the story of the Recovery Café.
—Plan and Lead a Sober Social Event with our Members!
- Bring your creativity and pose your idea for an event to have safe, clean fun for our members!
- The Recovery Café offers monthly sober social events and can range from an open mic event, ballroom dancing, or game night to an ice cream social, craft night, trivia night, or BBQ!
—Join the Event Planning Committee!
- Join this committee to help us make birthday and holiday celebrations extra special for our members!