My next few blogs will be dedicated to ideas that surfaced during Rock Recovery’s first Idea Salon (see 11/28 blog for details). The first idea I’ll present (and I welcome comments) is that of creating a Rock Recovery Community Leadership Committee. The primary goal of the committee is to share Rock Recovery’s message of hope & healing. The secondary goal is to raise support for our first recovery house.
Each member of this leadership committee would serve as an ambassador to a specific community of his or her choice. For example, a leadership committee member with a heart for Asian Americans may focus on educating that community on the realities of EDs, while a member with a passion for physical fitness may focus on sharing local ED resources with personal trainers. Rock Recovery would help each committee member craft their specific message, recruit volunteers from their community, and train volunteers to share Rock Recovery’s mission with others.
Rock Recovery would host one leadership committee meeting per month, during which members and Rock Recovery leadership would collaboratively update and bounce ideas off one another. These ideas would be submitted to Rock Recovery’s Board of Directors for feedback, and the Board could likewise submit ideas to the committee for consideration.
Once a committee member received a substantial degree of support from his or her community (e.g., once s/he had recruited a dedicated group of volunteers), s/he would be asked to coordinate one or more events to reach a larger proportion of the target community and (hopefully) raise money toward the establishment of Rock Recovery’s first house.
Rock Recovery could empower several of our current volunteers to step into the role of a leadership committee member, and could recruit additional members via Idealist.com and through word of mouth. Committee members would be asked to serve in the position for at least one year, during which time they would be encouraged to mentor someone to replace them when they step down. The ideal committee member would be passionate about sharing Rock Recovery’s message of hope and healing with other and have a strong connection to a specific community.
These are just thoughts – this leadership committee could serve a variety of purposes and could operate in other ways. So I’m curious to hear what you think! What opportunities are we neglecting to consider? What challenges might we face? If you’ve served on a committee of this nature, what worked? What didn’t? Other thoughts or suggestions?
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