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Internship Offer: Volunteer Training Coordinator

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Does your program require you to do an internships, stage, or placement? Do you want to do it at a community organization whose approach is holistic, empowering, and harm-reductive? Are you seeking an internship to develop your skills in program planning and facilitation? We’re looking for you!

We’re seeking an intern who will work about 10 hours or two days a week for the full academic year. In collaboration with their supervisor, the intern will design, publicize, and co-facilitate a 30-hour training program for front desk volunteers.

The ideal candidate is:

  • Committed to the H&H mission, vision, and approach
  • Self-directed and independent
  • Ready to contribute their ideas about addressing sexism, racism, transphobia, and other forms of oppression in a volunteer training setting
  • Bilingual
  • Comfortable animating groups and navigating group dynamics
  • Available Thursday evenings and one other day/afternoon/evening per week

If you’re interested, email info@headandhands.ca ASAP and let us know why you think you’d be a great candidate for this internship. Please attach your CV! Head & Hands recognizes the important experiences and perspectives brought to the table by those who are members of traditionally disadvantaged groups, and encourages candidates from those groups to apply.

Volunteer Call-Out: SERVE 2012

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SERVE 2012 is around the corner and we are getting ready to bump, set, and spike for the 7th year in a row! This year’s annual SERVE Volleyball tournament is gearing up to support Sex Ed and raise awareness to support the Sense Project, our peer-based sex education project. For more info about this cutting edge, harm-reductive and queer/sex/trans-positive sex ed program, check out Sense’s page.

The SERVE tournament is an exciting, fun, and sexy event that engages the vibrant bar and restaurant community in a fresh approach to fundraising and provides us with a unique opportunity to share our holistic vision of youth empowerment and wellness with Montrealers at large.

The tournament will be held on Sunday, July 29th 2012 at Jeanne-Mance Park. We are currently looking for approximately 60 volunteers to help make SERVE 2012 a success! We need volunteers for a huge variety of roles so if you are interested please contact Shanice ASAP at intern.headandhands@gmail.com or at 514-481-0277 to sign up! You will all have a chance to hit up the BBQ, grab a beer or two and ride our Slip ‘n’ Slide. Most importantly, you will help us reach our ultimate goal of $35,000 for the Sense Project! For more information about SERVE 2012, visit us on Facebook!

New season, new bylaws!

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With summer comes Annual General Meeting season at Head & Hands! We are governed by a set of bylaws that set the rules for how we operate as an organization.  Every year, H&H members are able suggest changes to these bylaws–and those suggestions are voted on by the full membership at our AGM.

If you’d like to take a look at the current bylaws, come visit us anytime and just ask for a copy!  If you want to suggest any changes to our bylaws, you need to submit these to us before May 31.  Proposed bylaw changes can be sent to admin@headandhands.ca.

Seeking Board Members!

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Become a member of the Head & Hands Board of Directors!
Support our organization and community!

The Opportunity:

Head & Hands is currently looking for motivated, passionate people to run for election to our Board of Directors. We currently have 4 vacant seats to fill.

Applications are due May 9th at 6pm.

Who we are looking for:

We encourage all applications to our Board, and seek to create a balanced group to reflect the skills and priorities of our community. Head & Hands welcomes the unique contributions that youth (25 and under) and individuals from marginalized and oppressed communities bring to our organization, and invites these individuals to apply. We encourage applicants to describe the unique contributions they, as individuals with diverse experiences, would bring to Head & Hands in their cover letter.

Requirements:

  • Be a member of Head & Hands and be endorsed by two Head & Hands members. (Anyone who has made a financial gift to Head & Hands within the year. since June 2011, is a member).
  • Commitment to social justice and to our mission
  • Willingness to participate in fundraising activities in a collaborative context
  • Desire to work with a diversity of people on common goals
  • Available for monthly evening Board meetings and ongoing committee work (total time commitment is approximately 8-10 hrs / month)

Assets:

  • Interest in local and current youth issues
  • Knowledge of various aspects of community work
  • Knowledge of harm reduction, anti-oppression, and collective functioning
  • Expertise in areas relevant to our services (medical, legal, social, education)
  • Contacts in the community, media, private and public sectors
  • Willingness to be a spokesperson for Head & Hands
  • Professional experience with human resources and/or financial management

We are particularly interested in recruiting board members with experience in one or several of the following areas:

  • Financial management
  • Fundraising, event planning, communications
  • Human resources, labour & compensation
  • Strategic planning & collaborative governance
  • Policy work in the non-profit sector
  • Legal issues (especially commercial law)

Interested? Find out how to apply here!

Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies

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The second volume of Sprinkle, a peer-reviewed McGill undergraduate journal of Sexual Diversity Studies was recently published for free online.

The editors write:

Our aim in producing this edition of Sprinkle was to open a space for academic dialogue regarding non-normaitve experiences and ideas which are often silenced within our regulatory, heteronormative society. In this vein, we hope to draw attention to queer history and experience as well as other issues of gender and sexuality, subjects not often addressed within mainstream curricula.

Submissions were taken from McGill students as well was other university students in North America. Anyway, the issue pretty much speaks for itself!