Become a Volunteer for Miami Dade Community

Numerous volunteer positions are available during the day, in the evenings and on weekends that make a significant impact on peoples lives - including yours! All volunteers undergo extensive training to ensure that you can help someone in a crisis, or just "answer the call" for someone in need.

Are you looking for a unique volunteer activity that meets a special need in you?

Then Switchboard of Miami has the job for you. Volunteer to be a trained crisis counselor and handle incoming calls at our Call Center from people in need. Free, comprehensive training is available. Or help in our youth programs where you can guide young people on a solid life path. Does working with senior citizens appeal to you? Help contact older people living alone to check on their well being and reassure them that someone cares. Or just pitch in to help us run the only tri-lingual Call Center in the nation. You'll find a home at Switchboard of Miami where we are celebrating our 40th Anniversary of Service!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 25, 2010

SWITCHBOARD OF MIAMI IN CRITICAL NEED OF CREOLE & FRENCH CREOLE-SPEAKING VOLUNTEERS

Switchboard of Miami, Inc. the area’s leading crisis counseling & information and referral services, asks those with backgrounds in mental health, social work, psychology and/or /psychiatry to help in the aftermath of the January 12^th earthquake in Haiti.

To ensure prompt assistance for the area’s Haitian community, Switchboard is actively and urgently recruiting motivated individuals 18 years or older , who speak Creole and/or French-Creole language, to volunteer with Switchboard. Short- and long- term assignments are available in various capacities. Expedited training provided at the Switchboard office, 701 SW 27^th Avenue, Miami 33135. Background checks are required.

Switchboard of Miami offers 24-hour counseling and information and referral services for anyone in need of support in this time of grief. Information and Referral services are also available by calling The Children’s Trust 2-1-1 which is managed and operated by Switchboard. Customized individual and group counseling activities for businesses and organizations are also available.

Switchboard is supported in part by The Children’s Trust, United Way of Miami-Dade, Florida’s Department of Children & Families, Miami-Dade County, private foundations and individual donors.

For more information on how to volunteer or to discuss counseling needs for your business or organization, please contact Zaymar Vargas, at 305.358.1640 ext. 161. or zvargas@switchboardmiami.org.

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Switchboard of Miami, Inc. 41 years of Answering the Call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

We connect people in need with community resources, strengthen and preserve families, and develop and provide services where none exist.