Happy New Year - Looking forward, get involved

[Rob]

Hello TeenHelpers!

We would like to wish you a very happy new year and give you a few updates from us. If you haven't done so already I encourage you to read Robin's discussion about community and some of the great things that have been happening over the holidays, as well as Haley's announcement of our Winter Awards including our prestigious Volunteer Of The Year Award.

Here's what's coming up:

Share Your Views - Member Survey

I would be delighted to have you complete our annual survey and share your views with us on how you find TeenHelp and how we could do better. All sections are optional and it will only take 1-2 minutes to complete the first section which is multiple choice and we would appreciate even this bit of info from you. If you have more time,you can also share your ideas on the following questions, which will give us new ideas to work on. Any and all comments are greatly appreciated - Thank you for your help!

http://www.teenhelp.org/links/click.php?id=30

2019-2021 Action Plan

I am pleased to share a summary of our Action Plan for 2019-2021 which details some of the main things we want to achieve in the next few years, how we're going to achieve these and how we will know when we've been successful. Our survey above will feed into this and within each goal there is a separate plan of projects that are being worked on towards each area. You can view this on our Mission page.

http://www.teenhelp.org/mission/

Coming up...

New Chat Room

We are beginning to test an exciting new Chat Room that will hopefully be live in the next month or so and will be a great new feature on the site! We need members to help us test this, please PM me if you are interested. We are especially interested to hear from young people 13-24 who are keen to share their ideas on this as well as other areas in the future. There's no minimum time commitment or skills, you just need lots of enthusiasm, so please don't be shy, we really appreciate your help!

http://www.teenhelp.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=1

Calendar Challenge

Each month we'll be publishing a new themed calendar to give you inspiration and ideas. It's the new year so January is all about self-improvement, so we challenge you to do one thing each day to improve yourself and get started on those pesky resolutions! In the calendar we've come up with tons of ideas to start you off, but do other things that are personal to you too!

http://www.teenhelp.org/links/click.php?id=29

If you have any questions of any of the above please let me know!
TeenHelp Project Co-ordinators

[Rivière]

An excellent Action Plan! 3.5 is definitely something I can get behind, for a variety of reasons. While I think it's great to have more maturer staff members, having young people part of staff is extremely important. It gives a sense of purpose, community, support, and valuable life experience in a role of responsibility (which can often be extremely hard to acquire in today's world). Definitely looking forward to seeing how things work out, in this year and the next!

I imagine that there will be quite a few members willing to come forward and help test the new chat room! While I'm not one for visiting the chatroom (given my shocking social anxiety at times), if there happen to be a lack of testers available, I'd be more than happy to assist.

#23 of the calendar challenge definitely appeals to me. Always looking to try different exercises!

[Celyn]

Love the action plan and the calendar challenge! Excited about the new chat room too!