Opportunities From: Center for Community Engagement

We are continuing our brand new role playing game. Our group of 6-10 participants play Call of Cthulhu on a semi-monthly basis.  Call of Cthulhu is an interactive role playing game similar to Dungeons and Dragons.   No previous experience is required, but bring your imagination as we breathe life into fictional characters living in this early 20th century world.

We are welcoming new players who have either played Dungeons and Dragons before, or are committed to learning with us, AND participating in all sessions this semester. 

Due to the creative, interactive and on-going nature of role-playing, (sessions build upon each other) it is recommended that volunteers do NOT sign up if they plan to attend only one time.  

Volunteers will play alongside and facilitate play with adults with cognitive and physical disabilities.

To help you, and our participants to get the most of the experience, volunteers are asked to read our volunteer handout prior to attending an event.

Marjorie Book Continuing Education seeks volunteers to participate in and learn alongside adults and teens with disabilities.  Volunteers can be paired with an individual with a disability to help facilitate their participation in the class.

This workshop is a follow up to our ongoing Creative Writing and Local Poets classes.  We will spend about 2 hours developing your pieces of writing that you have already begun in class or at home.  This is a great way to put pen to paper or finger to keyboard and revise and enhance a story that you have started previously in our workshops.  After having finished memoir writing, we are slowly working on developing our second piece of writing, which is focused on worldbuiding.  Anyone is welcome – just know that this is primarily a workshop to get writing time (and not a class on writing).

Volunteers will help provide accommodations (including scribing, spelling, following the steps of the writing process as instructed by the instructor, facilitating brainstorming of options, etc) to individuals with disabilities.    

To help you, and our participants to get the most of the experience, volunteers are asked to read our volunteer handout prior to attending an event.

Haven’t played chess in awhile or ever?  Chess helps the mind focus and be active.  Steve Kroeger, a local chess educator, will be joining us during this particular session.  This class is open to beginners and those with previous experience.

Marjorie Book seeks volunteers to facilitate play and learn along with individuals with intellectual and/or physical disabilities as we learn together the strategies to playing chess. 

To help you, and our participants to get the most of the experience, volunteers are asked to read our volunteer handout prior to attending an event.

Rob and Joe will guide us through the history of topics chosen by popular vote by you.  In the past, Rob has presented on Cincinnati Reds history and the history of science fiction.  In November, Rob will present on the history of President Johnson and the Civil Rights Movements.

Volunteers are sought to interact with other participants, participate in the class and facilitate the involvement of classmates with physical and cognitive disabilities.

To help you, and our participants to get the most of the experience, volunteers are asked to read our volunteer handout prior to attending an event.

Marjorie Book seeks volunteers to work alongside teens and adults with physical and/or intellectual disabilities as we participate in this volunteer opportunity.  Volunteers will receive guidance to assist people with disabilities with the tasks required, or simply work in pairs or small groups and converse while volunteering.

The Mill Creek Trail is a multi-use walking and biking trail that runs in segments from Carthage to Northside.  We will use reacher/grabber tools to pick up litter along the trail and prevent it from polluting the Mill Creek, Cincinnati’s urban stream that stretches from Butler County to the Ohio River.  We may also pull invasive species.  We don’t walk especially far during this service project, and so the activity level should be accessible to all.   We do bring a few wheelchairs with us, just in case they are needed.   We’ll work rain or shine and meet in the parking lot of the Caldwell Sports Complex.   Please dress for the weather, which will likely be cool.   Marjorie Book will have ponchos available in case it rains.  There is a portable toilet at this location, but only in the summer and the fall and may not be available at this time.

To help you, and our participants to get the most of the experience, volunteers are asked to read our volunteer handout prior to attending an event.