Please contact [email protected] with any questions or more information on volunteering. Training is required before serving in a volunteer role at the café! Thank you!
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 Social Event with our Members:
Bring your creativity & pose your idea for an event to have safe, clean fun with our members!*
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.
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 Café. Class topics can range from health/wellness, nutrition, yoga, spirituality, job/career preparation, healthy relationships, relapse prevention and more!
Plan and Lead a 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 use disorder 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 activities allows our members to have a rich, full life.
- * We do require that 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!
- 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!
