POEM Volunteer Application

We’re grateful for your interest in volunteering with POEM.

Looking for other ways to get involved? Check out the Ohio Perinatal Mental Health Task Force or other volunteer opportunities at MHAOhio.

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POEM Peer Mentor

POEM Support Group Facilitator

POEM Online Support Group Leader

POEM volunteers are people who have experienced and recovered from a mental health complication that occurred during pregnancy, postpartum, or due to a pregnancy or infant loss. Please share a little bit about your experience, mental health journey, and any perinatal mental health challenges you have faced.

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Volunteer Opportunities

We offer a flexible online training for all of our volunteer roles to be completed before volunteering.

POEM Peer Mentor

Mentors can be a crucial factor in positive recovery outcomes for some of our moms – a POEM Peer Mentor can be a lifeline. Mentors offer peer support to POEM participants remotely (via phone or online) to give a them a safe, understanding, one-on-one place to talk through their struggles. As a Peer Mentor, you are not a crisis intervention contact, but you will be a POEM participant’s first point of contact for support within the POEM program.

This role is available for the general program as well as the POEM Equity Initiative for Black and African American Moms.

POEM Support Group Facilitator

Our peer-led support groups provide a space for moms to connect and find support with one another. POEM group facilitators are trained in evidence-based peer support group skills and co-facilitate each group with another trained facilitator. We are in need volunteers to co-facilitate monthly groups or serve as back-up facilitators when the need arises. This role is available for the general program as well as the POEM Equity Initiative for Black and African American Moms.

POEM Online Group Leader

The goal of a POEM Online Group Leader is to facilitate and increase engagement in POEM’s online support group, POEM Interactive. Group Leaders will use peer support competencies and skills to create a strong atmosphere of peer support online. This role is meant to be flexible for volunteers who would like to give their time to the program and may have more schedule limitations.

Volunteer Opportunities

POEM Peer Mentor

POEM Support Group Facilitator

POEM Online Group Leader

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Call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988

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