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Volunteers
I really need some help. Here are the kinds of things I need help with, or the things you could do...
| Send letters/emails to journalists
about my site. Tell them to start asking better questions
when there is a suicide. (See the Megan Meier page) Send letters to journalism schools. Try to educate them about teen suicide. Send emails to psychology departments around the world asking them to look at my site and try to get volunteers, interns. "Adopt" a teen online to talk to, listen to, coach. Help me set up an online course about emotional abuse, recovery from emotionally abusive parents. Read my old journal writing and take our excerpts to put back on the site.
Help me make new sites which are more specific on various topics or which are set up as members only sites. Help me write articles and get them published online or in print. Help me find places where I can speak to groups (in Europe or India for example). Help me edit the wikipedia page on emotional intelligence to include my work and keep people from taking links to my work off the page. Help me find other groups/organizations who would want to work with me. (For example, teen rights groups, human rights groups, education reform groups). If you would like to help in some way, please contact me. Thanks |
High School Students Interested in Studying Psychology
Job Duties and Responsibilities will include the following:
- Proofread, edit and post stories and other content to the website
- Write stories for the site (Depending on the interest, ability of the applicant)
- Create and edit weekly EQI.org newsletter
- Help design and create online course based on EQI.org site material
- Online research
- Recruit volunteers
- Public Relations
- Fundraising
- Write press releases
- Coordinate online support group
- Maintain mailing list
- Moderate forum
Qualifications
- Strong desire to help others
- Excellent listener
- Non judgmental
- Ability to take direction but also work independently and take initiative
- Willingness and ability to learn
Additional Helpful Qualifications
- Attention to detail
- Past experience with self-harm is beneficial to this position for the sake of understanding, empathy
- Previous volunteer work
- HTML skills, photo/video editing skills a plus
- Sending out welcome email addresses to new teens.
- Maintaining the mailing list.
- Saving and editing the chats so they will not reveal anyone's identity.
- Helping make web pages showing chats and emails in the same way I have been doing for the past few years.
- Help me create a special new section of the site for teens only, which will be password protected and help me separate items which will go into this secure section vs. those which can stay on the public site.
- Helping document true stories so we can try to change the mental health laws regarding teenagers and change the way teenagers are treated in schools, homes, mental hospitals, treatement centers etc.
- Contacting human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch.
- Help develop a free online course for teens to teach useful emotional skills such as how to express their feeling and how to listen and support each other.
- Tell others about what we are doing and spread awareness of why teens really self-harm, written in the words of teens themselves, not psychologists or psychiatrists.