CHOW Mental Health Amuse’ Course
Through 2023, CHOW is offering a unique Mental Health Amuse’ Course. These four hours of training are for industry workers and are meant to shine light on some of the most pressing issues affecting workplace wellness.
This course is created for food, beverage and hospitality workers BY food, beverage and hospitality workers.
We request a 15$ placeholder fee which will returned to you upon course completion. If you would like to donate your placeholder fee to CHOW upon completion, please let your instructor know. We will gratefully accept your donation!
We will be offering these trainings in compact four hour blocks as well as split into two sessions of two hours each to allow for flexible scheduling.
Monthly scheduled dates will be announced on social media and our newsletter and can always be found on our CHOW calendar.
Feel free to sign up here or visit our Eventbrite page at: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/chow-49162252563 to stay up to date with Amuse’ scheduling.
Amuse’ Course Sessions
Why Get Involved?
Come to a CHOW meeting if you’re feeling something you can’t share with coworkers, friends or family. Come to a CHOW meeting to meet with your restaurant family and talk about what is working and what isn’t working in your life. Come to a CHOW meeting if you’re feeling lonely.
Like physical health, we all have a state of mental health, Let’s talk about it!
How To Volunteer
Your time is valuable and you want to put it to good use. Why not invest it in the important work of making sure our community focuses on their mental health? It’s easy, fun, and so important in our ability to get the word out. Contact us to find out about volunteer opportunities.
Opportunities
CHOW is looking to fill Board Member Positions
The hospitality industry hosts an incredible group of hard-working people. They are the folks who sing at your birthdays, pour your champagne on new years, wash your dishes, and enjoy making others happy. They love doing it! But it comes with the cost of low wages, long hours, little access to health care, and a culture of competition. The lifestyle does not always support physical or mental health. Many of the coping strategies involve avoidance, masking, or self-medicating.
CHOW’s mission and goals:
Mission: to support wellness within the hospitality industry and to improve the lives of our community through shared stories, skills, and resources.
- Outreach – Share our resources with the restaurant and hospitality industry.
- Resources – Create partnerships with clinicians, fitness venues, and other professional organizations that will allow us to offer whole body wellness.
- Education – Provide tools that will help the hospitality industry understand and address mental health.
In order to enact change, we are looking for a council of like-minded people who love the hospitality industry and want that community to have access to mental health resources. We directly offer peer support and training and have partners to offer clinical support. We need a strong, smart, courageous, and connected council to help us achieve our mission. The need has never been more urgent considering the pressure Covid-19 has put on the industry.
Specific Council responsibilities include:
- Actively participating on committees and fundraising
- Advisor for plans and programs
- Creating a system of measurement for evaluating impact
- Attending and being prepared for meetings
- Approving CHOW’s annual budget, audit reports, and material business decisions; being informed of, and meeting all legal, and fiduciary responsibilities
- Evaluating of the Executive Director
- Assisting in identifying and recruiting other potential Council members
- Acting as an ambassador for CHOW
- Ensuring equity in CHOW
- Must be able to sign the Board Commitment Statement at the end of nomination form
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At CHOW we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
CHOW is looking for Part time Meeting Facilitators (Experienced Peer Offering Support) – About 3-5 hours/week. Pay: $30/Hour
Are you interested in being an active part of the movement towards mental health? Would you like to learn how to run/facilitate meetings?
CHOW is seeking compassionate meeting facilitators AND can train you to be a CHOW EXPOS. Ours is a unique community of hospitality professionals. A year of work in the hospitality field is required. To ensure success as a CHOW EXPOS, you should be empathetic and possess exceptional interpersonal communication skills.
CHOW Peer Responsibilities:
-Attending weekly CHOW meetings, virtual or in-person.
-Documenting the number of attendees.
-Allowing an extra 30 minutes after a meeting to give additional support to members, as needed.
CHOW is looking for volunteer hosts
CHOW would love a few volunteers with experience in the restaurant/hospitality industry. We are trying to create a welcoming space for virtual and in-person meetings, Mondays, 6-7pm amd Wednesdays 3-4pm (MST). Volunteers help to welcome attendees and build relationships. If you’re friendly, please apply using our contact page
CHOW is looking for bilingual volunteers
CHOW would love a few bilingual (Spanish/English) volunteers with experience in the restaurant/hospitality industry. We are trying to create a welcoming space for native Spanish speakers in our On-line Spanish meeting, Tuesdays, 6-7pm. Volunteers help to welcome attendees and build relationships. If you’re friendly, please apply using our contact page
CHOW necesita voluntarios bilingües
CHOW quisiera algunos voluntarios bilingües (español/inglés) con experiencia en la industria de restaurantes/hotelería. Estamos tratando de crear un espacio acogedor para los hablantes nativos de español en nuestra reunión de español en línea, los martes, de 6 a 7 p. m. Los voluntarios ayudan a dar la bienvenida a los asistentes y a construir relaciones. Si es amigable, presente su solicitud utilizando nuestro enlace “Contactar a CHOW”
Speakers and Writers:
“One day you’ll tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will become someone else’s survival guide.” – Brene Brown
We will share your speech or story with our community on our facebook page and website. There’s a saying, “there’s a lid for every pot.” Your story may be the one that reaches someone who needs to feel that community connection and gives them the strength to move on.
How To Become A Sponsor
Help us serve those who serve US by supporting wellness in the hospitality industry. Whether through long term sponsorship or individual donations, you can make an impact today!
Email erin@chowco.org to find out more
How CHOW will utilize your generous contribution
Wellness Opportunities
General Sponsorship, $1,000-30,000 | CHOW is a young nonprofit organization and it relies entirely on grants and donations. A general sponsorship donation will help us with all bills as they arrive. Everything from paying for our Zoom platform to paying our discussion facilitators. This style of donation allows our Council to utilize the funds in the manner that will best serve the organization.
Program Sponsorship, $5,000-30,000 | Help us spread CHOW to other cities. This donation would allow us to find and hire industry professionals to host meetings, spread printed material, and all aspects related to creating a CHOW chapter. Each CHOW meeting costs $5,000 for a year. These meetings help to create a community and give folks the opportunity to feel heard by their industry peers.
Outreach Opportunities
Newsletter, $500-$2500 | Help us fund our newsletter. Having our newsletter shared is an excellent way to ensure the inclusion of the multitude of restaurants, hotels, and distributors. The e-newsletter is full of information about all of the ways readers can get involved with meetings and classes, help themselves, get care, or volunteer. Sponsorship of the newsletter tells readers you are committed to advocating for better mental health in the restaurant industry.
Events, $1,000-$10,000 | CHOW will host several events a year to engage with the community and raise funds to keep our organization running. We’re planning a Wellness event, a concert, and a Harvest Festival in 2022. Sponsoring these events will ensure that more funds get to our programming. (There are also opportunities to present at these events.) Sponsors will be publicly acknowledged at the events, on social media, and on our website. They’re also a great way to spend time with our people outside the workplace.
Education Opportunities
“Expo” training $500-$10000 | CHOW’s “Expo” training is for someone who has walked the path of recovery from mental illness/substance use disorder and will be trained to assist others in their journeys of recovery. CHOW envisions having an “Expo” in every restaurant. Training costs $500/person. To pay the person while they take the course is an additional $200/person. Invest in the wellness of an entire company with this Sponsorship opportunity.
“Amuse” Mental Health Course Facilitation $800-$5000 | CHOW has a mental health and recovery training written by and for the hospitality industry. We use language and experiences that you’d encounter in the industry and offer skills based facilitated education meant to shine light on some of the most pressing issues affecting workplace wellness.
“Amuse” Mental Health Course Scholarship $120-$1200 | Folks work hard to make a living. Taking a course takes time, which costs money. Help us reduce the barriers for taking our Mental Health Amuse Course by paying staff for the time. $120 covers one person taking the class. CHOW will offer the scholarship to restaurants to support them supporting their staff that wants to support each other.
Long Term Collaboration
Your consistent monthly donation will allow for your organization to align itself with the mission of wellness and support within the hospitality industry.
Please email erin@chowco.org to discuss collaboration opportunities.
Donate
To keep our meetings and discussion groups free and accessible to all, we rely on grants and individual donations. Please give whatever you can and support mental wellness in the hospitality industry.
Start A Meeting
A fantastic way to get involved is to start your own meeting! If you would like to start a meeting in your area, please contact us and we will help you create a group. We will provide a welcome package including how to structure a meeting, ideas for fundraising, educational and branding material.
Workplace Wellness Toolkit Part 1
We’ve created a living toolkit that folks can use to implement Wellness techniques in the workplace. The toolkit encourages a healthy environment where employers and employees can work together to end stigma about wellness.
Let’s Talk About It!
Have a question? Looking to get involved as a business or individual? Get in touch with us and let us help you get the ball rolling towards making an impact on the mental health of your hospitality community!