?fontfamily>?bigger>?bigger>?bigger>?bigger>?bigger>?bigger>HTML> From: Michelle Linn-Gust [michelle@nmsuicideprevention.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:18 AM

Subject: Agora Crisis Center Announces New Volunteer Recruitment
Agora Crisis Center
New Volunteer Recruitment
>Fall 2006!


> provides free, confidential and compassionate help to anyone statewide in need of emotional support. Agora is one of the oldest student-run crisis centers in the country, beginning in 1970 as a University of New Mexico campus crisis line. Through a partnership with the New Mexico Department of Health, Agora is expanding its telephone crisis line statewide, on a 24/7 basis. Because of this, we are expanding our volunteer base beyond our student community, and to help us by volunteering!! Volunteers work one 4-hour shift per week, and receive 40 hours of training in communication skills and crisis intervention. BR>

Requirements for volunteering are:

Completion of Agora training (40 hours – to be held on Saturdays September 16, 23, 30 and October 7 from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm. Attendance at all sessions is mandatory

Volunteers must commit to be responsible for staffing during one 4-hour shift per week for a minimum of 220 hours (One year commitment)
ttendance at the Agora General Meeting to be held 3 times/year in January, May and August (always held on a Wednesday evening)






For more information: call Agora at 277-3013; stop by 1716 Las Lomas Blvd. NE (just west of Dane Smith Hall on the UNM Main Campus); or APPLY ONLINE at ?param www.agoracares.org