Posts by Department of Volunteer & Career Services
Skillful Job Search Part 3 – DEAR Skills on the Job
This is the third of four posts discussing our approach to helping OPI Living and OPI Intensive participants with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) find and keep a job. Read Part 2 – Integrating DBT Skills . In the Department of Volunteer & Career Services at the Optimum Performance Institute, we have found that participants who…
Read MoreSkillful Job Search Part 2: Integrating DBT Skills
This is the second of four posts discussing our approach to helping OPI Living and OPI Intensive participants with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) find and keep a job. Read Part 1 – Obtaining a Job with BPD . The first thing we do to help participants tackle the job search process is to create a…
Read MoreSkillful Job Search Part 1: Obtaining a Job with BPD
A collaboration between OPI’s Department of Volunteer & Career Services and OPI Intensive Therapist Emily Rabuchin, MA, MFT has resulted in this 4-part blog series, “Skillful Job Search.” Each successive post will address a different aspect of our approach to help participants with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) find and keep a job: Part 1: Obtaining…
Read MorePutting Fun Back Into Fundamentals: Creating Vision Boards
What are your career goals? Are you excited about doing what it takes to achieve them? Some Optimum Performance Institute participants come into the program with specific objectives related to their career path, while others are unclear. The Department of Volunteer and Career Services works individually with each participant towards reaching their short- and long-term…
Read MoreOPI Participants Volunteer at an Animal Shelter for Community Service
Living away from home in the Optimum Performance Institute (OPI) residential program, many participants miss their beloved family pets. Consequently, several participants who already volunteer on their own at various animal shelters throughout Los Angeles County have suggested that we visit an animal shelter for our monthly community service event. Career Counselor Melody Kraus, of…
Read MoreSeptember Community Service Event – Helping the Homeless
The Department of Career and Volunteer Services within the Optimum Performance Institute recently supported a local homeless shelter in Los Angeles for the September community service event. OPI and OPI Intensive participants prepared meals and served lunch to over 800 homeless people during their visit. Part of the event included a facility tour where a…
Read MoreOPI Living Participants Help Local Food Bank’s Efforts to Feed Seniors
For this month’s community service event, planned by the Optimum Performance Institute’s Volunteer and Career Department, we visited a local food bank and supported the efforts of feeding hundreds of senior citizens living throughout the Los Angeles area. We assisted with food packaging and assembled containers that included canned fruit, cereal, milk and other non-perishable…
Read MoreNeed a New Career Path? Check Out the “Jobs of the Future!”
Need new ideas for a career path? Have you ever considered a job as a Pest Control Worker? An Actuary? Or even a Natural Science Manager? If not, you may be interested to know that these jobs will be in high-demand. According to an article featured on the website 24/7 Wall Street, those are just…
Read MoreOPI Participants Helped with Operation Gratitude for July Community Service Event
Since July is time to celebrate the nation’s independence, here at the Optimum Performance Institute within our Department of Career, Volunteer and Community Services, we decided to focus our recent community activity towards the currently deployed service members that protect our country. OPI participants took part in Operation Gratitude, an organizational effort run by a…
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