Leadership & Service
Do you like taking responsibility and making decisions? Do you like tackling issues and having a voice in how things are done? Or would you like the chance to develop your leadership skills? If so, here are some opportunities you could benefit from.
- If you’re elected to the Student Congress, you’ll be able to work with NMH’s administration and have a voice in how the school is run. There are various committees and boards you can serve on, dealing with everything from academics to dining, student activities to community concerns.
- As a rising senior, you may apply to become a Student Leader. This is considered the highest honor for an upperclassman, and with it comes great responsibility. As a role model for students in your dorm and a member of your house staff, you’ll help organize student life activities and serve as a link to other faculty, staff, and students. You’ll also be expected to live up to community standards at all times and address students who don’t.
- From your junior year on, you can be chosen as a Resident Advisor and help organize social and athletic events, help with administrative tasks, and monitor study hall.
- Peer Educators receive training in health education to help their peers make healthy and safe choices. As a Peer Ed, you'll serve as a resource for others and even develop informative and interactive workshop
- The training you’ll receive to be a Peer Mediator is quite intensive and happens before school begins. In this role, you’ll work to resolve interpersonal conflicts between students or even between students and faculty. The philosophy of the program is to be “multipartial,” meaning you work for the interests of all parties involved. NMH’s peer mediation is the only boarding school program with a social-justice component.
All leadership roles are challenging and rewarding. They require you to be diplomatic, compassionate, tough, and resourceful. These are experiences that teach you about responsibility, the world, human nature, and yourself.
Service Opportunities
NMH students are bright and curious. They’re interesting, interested people who are extraordinarily caring and engaged. Generosity is something NMH students typically arrive with, and we do everything we can to create opportunities to put that generosity to work.
NMH students are bright and curious. They’re interesting, interested people who are extraordinarily caring and engaged. Generosity is something NMH students typically arrive with, and we do everything we can to create opportunities to put that generosity to work.
Our weekly volunteer programs offers minor course credit for volunteering. You might work with small children in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program or help people get something good to eat through the Community Meals program. You could brighten the life of a nursing home patient, be a coach and cheerleader at the Special Olympics, or sing in the Trinitarian church choir.
We also have special one-day events, like the Winter Wonderland charity fundraiser or the Connecticut River Clean-up. Sometimes the school even suspends all afternoon activities so everyone can participate in a blood drive or a charity car wash.
Your dorm, club, or sports team can organize their own events, maybe a donut sale or spare change drive. The Outreach Office will help you make it happen; your advisor might get involved too.
And of course, service offers a great opportunity to lead. You can join the Outreach Board of Directors, which advises and supports outreach programs, or you can serve on an event committee, like the one for the homeless candlelight vigil. We even offer a Community Service Leadership Class, which helps you understand the role of volunteers and how service organizations work within a community.
But no matter what you choose to do, you’ll learn how important it is to help others and how good it makes you feel about yourself.
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