Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us at Sarah Bellum's Bakery & Workshop. Sarah Bellum's is a non-profit program in Multnomah Village in SW Portland whose mission is to empower adults with acquired brain injury to re-engage in the community and re-build a sense of purpose and identity through return-to-work in our functional rehabilitation bakery program.
If you are a survivor of an acquired brain injury, here are the requirements:
- Be interested in learning work-related job skills
- Be open to learning, goal-setting, instruction, and feedback
- Be independent with managing your own transportation
- Be able to find your way around a new community without getting lost
- Be able to do fine-motor tasks like putting on gloves or peeling a carrot
- Have appropriate social interactions for the workplace and public interactions
- Be at least 21 years of age
- If you have a legal guardian, your guardian will also need to acknowledge your participation
If you are a person without a brain injury interested in helping out, here are the requirements:
- Be interested in learning about brain injury (experience preferred, but not required)
- Be open to learning, goal-setting, instruction, and feedback
- Have experience with baking (home or commercial) or retail sales (preferred)
- Be independent with managing your own transportation
- Be able to work without the need for close supervision
- Be able to do fine-motor tasks like putting on gloves or peeling a carrot
- Have appropriate social interactions for the workplace and public interactions
- Have good attention to detail, organizational skills, and workplace communication
- Be at least 18 years old (parental permission also required if under age 21 years)
