Volunteer Opportunity
L’Arche Community Assistant
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Description
Journey with the Core Members, adults with disabilities, at L’Arche Wavecrest. Ensure that each Core Member has a voice in decision making and the planning of their own lives and in the life of the community. Support Core Members in the development and maintenance of their relationships with housemates, Core Members’ families, community members, and friends outside L’Arche. Foster an attitude of respect for the history, tradition, and practices of the Core Members. Assist Core Members with basic needs: hygiene, health, finances, recreation, personal and spiritual growth. Help plan celebrations, leisure activities, trips, prayer, community nights, retreats, one-on-one outings with Core Members, other assistants and House Leader.
Journey with the Core Members, adults with disabilities, at L’Arche Wavecrest. Ensure that each Core Member has a voice in decision making and the planning of their own lives and in the life of the community. Support Core Members in the development and maintenance of their relationships with housemates, Core Members’ families, community members, and friends outside L’Arche. Foster an attitude of respect for the history, tradition, and practices of the Core Members. Assist Core Members with basic needs: hygiene, health, finances, recreation, personal and spiritual growth. Help plan celebrations, leisure activities, trips, prayer, community nights, retreats, one-on-one outings with Core Members, other assistants and House Leader.
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Items needed to complete an online application:
- Completed Application Form (https://www.tfaforms.com/4699608)
- Résumé
- Autobiographical and Program Values questions
- Self-reference
- Three letters of reference and one Community Member/Housemate reference (submitted online via https://www.tfaforms.com/4701255)
- Transcript (non-official transcripts accepted. From highest level of education completed)
