RAINBOWS Facilitator

This volunteer position leads weekly peer support groups with participants who are grieving loss due to separation, divorce, abandonment, death or other major life transitions. In order to meet their responsibilities Facilitators will:

• Participate in RAINBOWS training given by a local Registered Director
• Lead weekly peer support groups, following the RAINBOWS curriculum and guidelines and using appropriate activities, games and Journals
• Foster an atmosphere of trust and caring, supporting participants in sharing their feelings and maintaining participants' confidentiality
• Help participants put their feelings into words, work through their grief, build a stronger sense of self-esteem and begin to accept what has taken place in their families
• Participate in formation meetings with the Site Coordinator and other RAINBOWS Facilitators
• Help Site Coordinator plan and execute Celebrate Me Day(s) at their Site
• Commit to 1½- 2 hours of service per week for 14 consecutive weeks
• Be 21 years of age or over

• Has worked closely with children, adolescents or adults
• Has a motive of love, concern and respect for humankind
• Is seriously committed to helping grieving participants
• Can accept tension and negative emotion without becoming personally defensive or incapable of response
• Must maintain confidentiality
• Is capable of working well with other adults
• Is emotionally healthy
• Realizes he/she does not have "answers" for participants' problems, but can help them discover the means to cope with these problems
• Is able to nurture and support members of a small group (4-6 participants)

• Interview
• Personal References
• Criminal Record Check
• Child Welfare Check

• $50 per person (subject to change; generally paid for by Site)