Skills and Proficiency

Volunteering with Springboard provides you with the opportunity to develop and enhance skills that are essential for personal and professional development.

These skills include:

• Client needs assessment
• Knowledge and effective use of community resources
• Advocacy
• Crisis intervention
• Effective communication
• Life-skills training and facilitation
• Substance abuse counselling
• Community outreach
• Group dynamics
• A working knowledge of the criminal and social justice systems
• Administration

You will become part a proactive team that designs and provides programs and services that will help thousands of youth and adults become productive members of our community.