Posts Tagged ‘Community Service’
A Visit to the Midnight Mission: Helping Others, Helping Ourselves
Since our previous community service events have had such great turnouts, the Department of Volunteer and Career Services wanted to plan an opportunity for staff and participants to join forces. Recently, we were fortunate to get a volunteer shift with the Midnight Mission on Skid Row and assist with lunch service and dinner preparations. The…
Read MoreParticipants Get Crafty to Help the Community
For our February community service event, the Volunteer and Career Department at Optimum Performance Institute decided to celebrate Valentine’s Day by giving back to the local community. With the holiday right around the corner, participants created personalized and handmade Valentine’s Day cards. Participants were able to get in touch with their inner child and create…
Read MoreOPI Participants Share the Holiday Spirit
This holiday season Optimum Performance Institute decided to share in the season of giving. This time of year can be a lonely time and a simple gift can make a very big difference for those that are disadvantaged. For our December community service event the Career and Volunteer Department participated in an annual gift wrapping…
Read MoreOPI Participants part of the Solution
For the past few years, the Department of Volunteer and Career has organized a canned food drive for the November community service event. We typically run our event through the holidays and focus on a different organization each year. This year we chose to donate to SOVA which is a Community Food and Resource Program…
Read MoreQ & A with Melody Kraus – Career Counselor for OPI Living Programs
In an interview earlier this month, we sat down with Melody Kraus, valued member of our Department of Career and Volunteer Services for OPI Living Programs including the Optimum Performance Institute, specialized OPI Intensive for BPD and our Intensive Outpatient Program to discuss a few topics around her work. Q: Melody, what have you learned…
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 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…
Read MoreOPI Participants Provide “Christmas in April” For Special Needs Families
WOODLAND HILLS, CA—-Once OPI Participants Amanda J., Scott S. and Matt D. decided on a unique Community Activity for April their enthusiasm quickly spread until three local families with special needs were treated to a unique “Christmas in April” grocery shopping spree at a local grocery store. Sixteen OPI Participants spent weeks collecting nearly $700…
Read MoreOPI Re-conceptualizes Volunteering Program
Because we recently re-conceptualized our Volunteering Program at OPI, Participants as well as staff have been seen serving food at the Midnight Mission, wrapping presents at the Boys and Girls Club and exchanging goodies as part of our “Do a Good Deed Month”. Volunteering has always been part of OPI. But until recently it was…
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