Volunteering

Volunteering encourages personal development, broadening of experience and life enrichment. It also allows for involvement in community development and for some, it provides an opportunity to assist in return for services received in the past. Contributing to PANDA can support families through an extremely difficult period.

Volunteer roles within PANDA:

PANDA has always relied on the commitment and hard work of many volunteers, indeed its very beginnings sprung from the visions of a small group of women and their families. Today PANDA continues to value and rely on the many volunteers who help to provide the valuable services to the community and to achieve its mission.

PANDA continues also to actively seek volunteers who have experienced some aspect of antenatal or postnatal mood disorders or people with a family member who has experienced it. PANDA believes that this allows for its underlying principles of mutual support and self help (peer support) to continue to be the basis of the support and information services it provides. In light of the need for and respect of the volunteers' personal experiences, as well as the challenges that the volunteer role may present to them, PANDA considers that it is important for the prospective volunteer to have recovered from their antenatal or postnatal mood disorder and to be in a sufficient state of well-being to be the most effective in their role.

Role descriptions for the varied volunteer roles within PANDA will:

• Ensure that the aims and objectives of the position are being met
• Protect the rights of volunteers
• Avoid misinterpretation within the volunteer roles.

All volunteers will receive a Position Description relevant to their role. The Position Description may change by mutual agreement at a later date.

The next Information Session date is still to be confirmed.  Registration is by application only.  To talk to a Volunteer Coordinator please call PANDA.

Please Note: At this point in time volunteer positions are only available in Melbourne.
If you would like to become a PANDA volunteer please click on the button below