Volunteer Young Persons Drug and Alcohol Community Champion

Volunteers make an enormous contribution to our work at Change Grow Live.

Last year, over 1400 volunteers donated over a quarter of million hours of their time to our organisation.

Would you like to join our growing team of volunteers and make a real difference?

Volunteering as a Young Person's Drug and Alcohol Community Champion allows you to raise awareness, run educational outreach, and support early intervention initiatives for youth struggling with substance misuse. Volunteers act as peer mentors and community advocates to reduce substance-related harm among young people.

Responsibilities:

• Build positive relationships with, individuals, families and carers in all diverse communities.
• Support staff to engage and support people in the local area at community venues.
• Support staff to provide confidential support, easily accessible, non-judgemental advice around drugs and alcohol use and harm reduction.

• Support people to refer into our service.
• Signpost to other support services where appropriate.
• Raise concerns you are experiencing or that you have about others with staff as required (e.g. safeguarding).

Benefits of Volunteering

• Travel expenses from your home to your service are covered.
• You receive comprehensive training and support.
• You build valuable skills and make a real difference in the Liverpool area. 

Training:

Attendance on training is an essential part for the volunteer role.

• Mandatory: Volunteer induction training
• Mandatory: Boundaries/Confidentiality training
• Required: Drug awareness training
• Required: Harm reduction training
• Required: Alcohol awareness training