About this event
"Talk the Talk" is a 3-hour educational session where participants learn about the legacy of Apartheid. There will be a speech preparation and presentation workshop to prepare our youth for the Speech Competition at the Youth Educational Weekend Retreat. The session will end with BC Black Stories: "Then and Now."
The Need
We are in need of volunteers to welcome guests and manage event registration and guest check-in at the registration desk
Volunteers are welcome and encouraged to stay and participate in the educational session and network at the event social. This is an amazing opportunity to make a change. Be a part of critical systems change work that delivers programs to empower Black Youth and their families through training, recognition and access to education.
Related tasks
- Confirm your ability to help when contacted by the JRBAA Volunteer Coordinator
- Attend an onsite orientation session on the day of the event
- Log your hours in iVolunteer after your shift
What you will be helping with
- Setting up the registration station table with a tablecloth
- Setting up station supplies – attendee list, name tags/wrist bands, paper, pens, signage
- Registering and welcoming our members to the event
- Keeping station area clean and tidy
- Signing in guests using the registration lists provided (marking off registered guests as well as updating the list with missing names or unregistered guests)
- Distributing adult and youth name tags or wristbands
- Ensuring parents or legal guardians sign youth consent forms for their youth or children
- Filing consent forms and returning them to the assigned JRBAA member after the event
- Packing up station supplies at the end of the event
Additional information
- Please arrive 1 hour prior to the event start time to attend an orientation session about your role.
- The registration station set-up should take approximately 30 minutes - 1 hour.
- After registration activities are completed, we welcome and encourage volunteers to stay for the education session, networking and social event. We invite you to join us for food and refreshments.
- The registration station take-down should take approximately 30 minutes - 1 hour.
Sign-up is required. This is not a drop-in volunteer opportunity!
If you require support to sign up to help, please contact candaceknoll@jrbaa.org
Volunteer Requirements
All volunteers must:
- complete and submit your JRBAA volunteer application https://jrbaa.org/volunteer
- complete a criminal record check for the vulnerable sector
- sign United Way British Columbia’s volunteer waiver
- be personable, friendly, and patient.
- be willing to work as a team, take direction from JRBAA staff, and be able to work under pressure
- have basic reading skills to register people
- have basic writing to create name tags
Boundaries
Parents are responsible for minors. Volunteers do not supervise minors or provide child-minding services.
Benefits
- Be a part of grassroots critical systems change
- Empower black youth and their families
- Participate in the education session
- Network at event social
- Ask us for a letter of reference!
Your health and safety are important to us.
Please refer to the provincial health guidelines for current updates.
If you are unwell, please stay home and do not volunteer. If unsure of your health status, the BC Centre for Disease Control’s online self-assessment tool is available at https://covidcheck.gov.bc.ca/.
Disclaimer
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