Check out our volunteer opportunities!
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Interested in volunteering with Recovery Café Indy? Click 'Volunteer With Us' to create an account with CommunityConnect and sign up for your first shift!
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Recovery Café Indy VOlunteer service projects
Volunteer Roles & Responsibilities
Serve as a Café Companion:
Be a friend to our local community members by serving as a Café Companion!
Teach a class or Workshop with our Members:
Do you have a skill, hobby, or talent that you would like to teach others?*
Plan and Lead a Sober Social Event with our Members:
Bring your creativity & pose your idea for an event to have safe, clean fun with our members!*
Join the Birthday and/or Holiday Planning Committee:
Radical hospitality is a core value of the Recovery Café.
Provide Community Connections & Recovery Resources:
One of our key goals is to provide a growing awareness of Recovery Café in the community.
Be a friend to our local community members by serving as a Café Companion!
- This role allows you to connect individually with members and guests in the Recovery Café space. This is an essential role in providing the loving, hospitable space that makes the Recovery Café such a unique and positive place. Listening and caring is the way love shines through. During your visit, you will often sit and talk and you may play games, cards, read, share stories, or conduct various tasks. Training is required to serve in this role. After registering, you will be asked to attend our volunteer training to learn more about this important role at Recovery Café!
- Click here to sign up for one of our Wednesday shifts
- Click here to sign up for one of our Thursday shifts
- Click here to sign up for one of our Friday shifts
- Click here to sign up for one of our Saturday shifts
Teach a class or Workshop with our Members:
Do you have a skill, hobby, or talent that you would like to teach others?*
- The School for Recovery gives Café members and non-members the chance to grow, heal, discover, take risks, and surprise themselves by doing and becoming what they never thought possible. While the word “recovery” doesn’t appear in most of the course titles, every single class is designed to provide support, wisdom, and companions for the hard work of making healthier choices as we live with whatever it is we are recovering from.
- * We do require that School for Recovery facilitators spend at least 25 hours in the café (serving as a Café Companion) prior to working on a class proposal. This will ensure that facilitators understand the café model and have a chance to meet our Members & Guests!
- The School for Recovery desires to offer classes to holistically support the journeys of each member at the Recovery Cafe.Class topics can range from health/wellness, nutrition, yoga, spirituality, job/career preparation, healthy relationships, relapse prevention and more!
- Click here to teach a class or workshop with our Members!
Plan and Lead a Sober Social Event with our Members:
Bring your creativity & pose your idea for an event to have safe, clean fun with our members!*
- The goal of recovery from substance abuse is to move anyone from being an active user to having a healthy life in sobriety. Some may not know or recall how to live a life that does not include drug. or alcohol use. So participating in fun, sober activities allows our members to have a rich, full life and fills up the time that used to be spent feeding any addiction.
- * We do require that Sober Social Event facilitators spend at least 25 hours in the café (serving as a Café Companion) prior to working on an event proposal. This will ensure that facilitators understand the café model and have a chance to meet our Members & Guests!
- We'd invite you to first join our Event Planning Committee which meets the third Wednesday of each month (or the week directly following our Monthly Sober Social Event).
- We'd invite you to first join our Event Planning Committee which meets the third Wednesday of each month (or the week directly following our Monthly Sober Social Event).
- Examples of past events include but are not limited to: open mic event, ballroom dancing, game night, ice cream social, BBQ, craft night, movie night, and trivia night!
- Click here to plan and lead a Sober Social Event with our Members!
Join the Birthday and/or Holiday Planning Committee:
Radical hospitality is a core value of the Recovery Café.
- Join this committee to help us make birthday and holiday celebrations extra special for our members!
- Click here to join the birthday and/or holiday planning committee.
Provide Community Connections & Recovery Resources:
One of our key goals is to provide a growing awareness of Recovery Café in the community.
- We need help in connecting to community providers, recovery resources, members of the Café, supporters, and funders of the Café.
- Duties in this role may include but are not limited to booth and community outreach, story gathering and/or photography, or tabling certain events to share the story of the Recovery Café
- Click here to join this committee and assist with our communications and marketing efforts!
