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This Worldly Wednesday we are excited to tell you about Worldly opportunities and events!
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Rome, Italy metro offers trash-for-tickets to tackle plastic pollution
So far over 350,000 bottles have been recycled!
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December 18 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Tis the season for stress, but at the Posner Center we know there is always a better way! Take a break with your fellow coworkers to play improv with a group of mental fitness coaches and an improv instructor to feel seriously prepared for whatever is on your mind as you continue to navigate the holidays. This event is free and open to the public, but please register ahead.
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December 20 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Recurring Event (See all)
Join Posner Center for some free lunchtime jazz with fellow Posner colleagues. Ready for something different for lunch? A community outing with Posner friends? Some free jazz? Meet at the Posner Center front door at 11am. We’ll walk to the 30th & Downing light rail and take it to Dazzle’s Jazz Club on 15th & Curtis for their free Friday lunchtime series. Check out performance details at Dazzle’s Friday Lunch Club Jazz.
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Homestay Opportunities!
WorldDenver is hosting homestay opportunities! Currently, they are looking for volunteers for these homestay opportunities:
YOUTH AMBASSADORS: January 28 -February 10, 2020
16 high school participants and 2 adult mentors from Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua
OPEN WORLD: February 14-22, 2020
6 professionals from Russia
Expectations for Homestay Hosts:
-Provide a welcoming home that is respectful of other cultures
-Treat your guest(s) like family
-Share your favorite cultural parts of the city and state
-Provide a room with an individual bed & access to a shared bathroom (youth can share rooms, must have individual bed)
-Provide 2 meals/day Monday-Friday, 3 meals/day on weekends (dietary restrictions may apply)
-Transportation: Students will need to be dropped off/picked up at WorldDenver office;
-Professionals: public transportation to/from worksite placements, Monday – Friday
Homestay Hosting is a great way to travel the world without leaving your home.
Learn more about the requirements to be a homestay family HERE!
WorldDenver truly values their Homestay families as they are the backbone of their programs! They offer a year membership to WorldDenver as a thank you to their hosts! They also provide a tax form at the end to claim this as a write off. If anyone is interested in hosting, please fill out WorldDenver's Host Stay application here: https://worlddenver.typeform.com/to/UvYL8Y
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Worldly Nonprofit Spotlight
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International Arts in Healthcare is a nonprofit based in Aspen, Colorado. Their mission is to help the mentally ill and disabled survivors and teach caregivers how to offer comforting healing in the form of the expressive arts.
They also offer sustainable expressive arts therapy training for staff working in refugee camps and other remote areas in Kenya.
Abandoned by governments, forgotten by the aid community, neglected and abused by entire societies, Africans with mental illness in regions in crisis are resigned to the dark corners of churches, chained to rusted hospital beds, locked away to live behind the bars of filthy prisons.
Some have suffered trauma leading to illness. Others were born with mental disabilities. In countries where infrastructure has collapsed and mental health professionals have fled, treatment is often the same – a life in chains.
International Arts in Healthcare partners with organizations to organize art based trauma intervention programs to address mental health care issues in a culturally appropriate way.
Find International Arts in Healthcare on Facebook!
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Well, that's all folks...
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