This year, we are delighted to introduce a new volunteer program which is essentially a wellness resolution program to help clients set goals, provide classes and guides to help them attain them, as well as monitoring and tracking their progress with checkpoints.
In an effort to collaborate with the students in the Nutrition program at Hunter College, our AmeriCorps Volunteer Coordinator Simone Carvalho created this unique service experience. The students from Hunter Colleges' Nutrition program are also eligible to receive fieldwork experience in addition to volunteering. This service encourages the students to experience the human side of becoming a nutritionist by gaining hands-on experience attending to clients, not only learning just the fundamentals of a healthy diet.
'New Year You' will start as a weekly pilot program for the first three (3) months at our housing sites in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. Our existing volunteers that are interested, as well as the Hunter College Nutrition students will monitor, take rate and retention of clients. The weekly workshops will include nutrition lessons, a fitness class, nutrition bingo and a monthly check-in to track the clients progress.
We are looking forward to the launch of this program, in early February. If you would like more information on how you can participate or volunteer in already existing programs contact us via email at volunteer@metcouncil.org or call 212.453.9508..
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