About Our Volunteers
At NAMI Vermont, our community thrives thanks to the valuable contributions of dedicated volunteers. We’re a small grassroots organization relying on the commitment of individuals like you to expand our support groups, educational classes, events, and community outreach. Volunteers are the driving force behind our programs, and they actively participate in fundraising efforts to offer these resources at no charge.
If you’re interested in volunteering for NAMI Vermont, we have a number of volunteer opportunities to help you get started. Our committees and Board of Directors are comprised entirely of volunteers who contribute their time, expertise, and enthusiasm. By actively participating in these volunteer opportunities, you can play a crucial role in fulfilling our mission of supporting, educating, and advocating for all communities, families, and individuals affected by mental health challenges. Join us in building better lives for everyone in our community by joining us.
Ways to Volunteer:
Jodi Girouard’s Poems
We invite more volunteers like Jodi to lend their voices and contribute to our collective healing. Your story matters, and together, we can help break the stigma surrounding mental health. To share your story, email Jodi at jgirouard@namivt.org or call her at 802-876-7949 ext. 105. With your permission, we’d love to feature your work in our e-news.
To Fly
Perhaps even without the words I could begin to sing. To bring in the colored melody of a brightness I can not feel. To immerse myself in the realness of reality. You see, I can only be the one I have been chosen to be.
To free myself from the burden of…
It Goes Like This
Poem by Jodi Girouard
I suppose it goes like this,
missing the moments spent truly alive
while the rain, the snow, the world lets go and I fall, I fall, I fall.
Trials of bliss, insisting there’s…
Missing Sun
Poem by Jodi Girouard
Shards of the past are lasting, and I long to be over this hard morning. My self will is not storming into the field ready and able. I feel incapable to simply just be…
Sitting Softly
Poem by Jodi Girouard
I will sit softly with my mind, with kindness for the sadness,
With the exuberant bewilderment spent addressing me. I am simply sitting with the idea that…
The Callings of Spring
Poem by Jodi Girouard
Softly, I whisper to the land, the planned escape from the long, cold winter. Oh, I am old, but can fold my beliefs into happenings of hope like the beautiful beginnings of spring...
Spring Snow
Poem by Jodi Girouard
Spring snow tracing my route in the pursuit for sunshine’s finer features.
A heavy wetness of tracks that imprint on the hint of green grass seen. Between bitter, rooted memories…
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