{"id":1447,"date":"2015-09-20T07:13:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2015-09-20T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T14:13:11","slug":"aphasia-institute-volunteer-program-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Aphasia Institute &#8211; Volunteer Program (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What do Volunteers Do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conversation facilitation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working with groups of 4 &#8211; 6 people with aphasia, volunteers enable members to interact, engage, challenge and develop amazing conversations.  Always working in partnership with another co-facilitator, your role is to provide communication techniques specific to the members with aphasia, while also taking part in the conversation.  This is an integral position in our program and a great starting place for new volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other volunteer opportunities include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Painting\/Creative Program Assistant; Fitness Assistant; Book Group Co-facilitator; Introductory Program Facilitators; One-to-One Computer Facilitator; Outreach Home-Visit  Communication Facilitators.<\/p>\n<p>There are also positions available in the areas of research, administration, fundraising, and governance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norma<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Volunteers Do? Conversation facilitation: Working with groups of 4 &#8211; 6 people with aphasia, volunteers enable members to interact, engage, challenge and develop amazing conversations. Always working in partnership with another co-facilitator, your role is to provide communication techniques specific to the members with aphasia, while also taking part in the conversation. This &#8230; <a title=\"Aphasia Institute &#8211; Volunteer Program (Part 1)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1447\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aphasia Institute &#8211; Volunteer Program (Part 1)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphasia","category-family","category-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}