Review current needs on our Volunteer Opportunities page, select opportunities matching your interests, skills, and availability, then complete and submit the Volunteer Application below.
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Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Angela Garlins
Contact Phone: 704-519-2332
Become a friend (companion/peer) to someone with mental illness, and you will help them in many ways. Persons matched with a Compeer volunteer often experience fewer hospitalizations, have increased self-esteem, and they are more likely to adhere to their medication and treatment programs. For additional information about the Compeer program, click here.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Andrea Towner
Contact Phone: 704-559-2913
MHA has limited unpaid seasonal internship opportunities which can support Advocacy/Public Policy, Compeer, Development, Education, and ParentVOICE programs. Clinical supervision is currently only available for Johnson C. Smith University and UNC-Charlotte MSW or MA in Counseling students. Because MHA has limited internships, this is a competitive process. Currently, MHA’s Fall 2022 internships have been filled. Please email your resume to mha@mhaofcc.org and complete our Volunteer Application below.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Andrea Towner
Contact Phone: 704-559-2913
Our Board of Directors leads MHA of Central Carolinas in its role as the community’s leading voice to promote mental wellness, to reduce stigma, and to advocate for an effective mental health system for all. The Board establishes policies and objectives, and then translates these objectives into strategic action through individual and committee efforts to ensure balanced programs. The Board is also responsible for overseeing the financial sustainability of MHA.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Andrea Towner
Contact Phone: 704-559-2913
Several of the MHA Board’s standing committees incorporate a limited number of community volunteers with relevant interest and expertise. Committees include Development, Workplace Culture, Marketing & Engagement, and Advocacy & Public Policy. Additionally, MHA’s ParentVOICE and Counseling Center programs incorporate community volunteers through Advisory Committees.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Andrea Towner
Contact Phone: 704-559-2913
Volunteers are trained on the mission, vision, purpose, and history of the MHA. Once trained, Storytellers are called upon to represent the MHA or accompany staff to various health fairs, civic presentations, campus or church meetings, etc. Storytellers typically have a true personal recovery story to share as a way to ultimately help break the stigma of mental illness.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Candace Wilson
Contact Phone: 704.559-1994
MHA’s ParentVOICE program educates, supports, and empowers parents and caregivers of youth with emotional, behavioral, and mental health issues. Staff teaches families how to navigate the mental health, education and judicial systems and how to be their children’s best advocates. Volunteers can help lead activities at monthly support group meetings for parents/caregivers, grandparents, or youth, or may provide meals or child care for younger siblings.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Andrea Towner
Contact Phone: 704-559-2913
We have varied project needs on a seasonal basis. These projects might include research, curriculum development, or assistance with administrative tasks in the office such as mailings or phone calls.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Candace Wilson
Contact Phone: 704-559-1994
Share expertise to create electronic surveys, PowerPoint or Canva presentations, electronic toolkits/information packets and more. Can be short-term project or monthly commitment.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Tatiana Leon, Bilingual Mental Health Educator (pictured)
Contact Phone: 704-519-2312
Seeking bilingual volunteers to help translate MHA materials and mental health resources, serve as MHA Storytellers, offer phone support to Spanish-speaking parents through the ParentVOICE program and help support the Latino community.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Andrea Towner
Contact Phone: 704-559-2913
If you are a mental health professional, expert or advocate, and would like to volunteer to speak on a mental health topic, consider joining our Speakers’ Bureau. MHA will offer to the community a menu of local mental health (or related) professionals and their preferred topics. MHA will promote speakers and their topics on our website as well as in printed materials, and facilitate coordination of speaking engagements throughout the year.
Age Eligibility: Adults Only (18+)
Contact Email: Andrea Towner
Contact Phone: 704-559-2913
Want to take a hands-on approach? Volunteers are always needed to help with special events throughout the year, but especially in the fall and prior to May Mental Health Month. Small groups (5 or less) can volunteer to sponsor and plan a program event with staff, for Compeer or ParentVOICE participants. Artistic volunteers can share their talent and lead a group of seniors and youth with a cross-generational project called H-Art of Friendship. If you have experience or interest in fundraising events, you may be interested in the Development Committee.