JustServe: Specialist Quick Start Guide

The purpose of JustServe is to help individuals, families, and groups to find opportunities near their homes to help those in need and improve the quality of life in their communities.

Getting started

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Get Trained

Review the JustServe Community Service Guidebook and contact your coordinating council or area JustServe specialist to receive training.

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Ask Questions

Talk with the previous JustServe specialist, members of the JustServe working group and priesthood leaders.

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Use JustServe.org

Look at and register on the website, learn how it works and how it is used to connect volunteers with volunteer opportunities. Download the JustServe app to your mobile device.

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Identify Potential Community Organizations

Contact organizations and invite them to post their volunteer needs on JustServe.org . Help them to post current projects so volunteers can become aware and involved.

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Connect with Church Leaders

Coordinate with the stake Relief Society president and mission JustServe specialist to connect members and missionaries with community needs and service opportunities.

Others you may work with:

• JustServe specialist for the area, country, or coordinating council will train and coordinate the work.

• Members of the stake/district JustServe working group and Church communication directors can help you make goals for JustServe and connect with community, non-profit, faith-based, and governmental organization leaders.

• Church communication directors, welfare and self-reliance managers, mission JustServe specialists collaborate, and share ideas.

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Promote Awareness of JustServe.org

Find out how JustServe has been promoted in the past. Make a plan to use social media, promotional materials, and other ways to create community awareness.

Learn more and find answers:

• JustServe Community Service Guidebook: JustServe.org/resources

• Videos, promotional resources, and research: JustServe.org/resources

• Training for administrators: JustServe.org/training

Tips for getting started in your calling

• Get acquainted with the JustServe Community Service Guidebook, Blessings to the Stake, Blessings to the Mission and Gift to the Community.

  (JustServe.org/resources).

• Meet with your coordinating council or area JustServe specialist. You will receive training and get answers to your questions. As part of your calling, you will have administrative rights within the Church and civic boundaries you serve in on JustServe.org .

• Meet with the previous specialist. Learn about the stake JustServe goals, partner organizations involved, member/missionary involvement, and current projects. Connect with your stake JustServe working group. If there is no working group, work with your stake leaders to set one up.

• Download the JustServe app. Apple devices (click here), Android devices (click here).

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Work with community organizations

• Develop and practice a conversation to introduce JustServe to potential community partners. (See Guidebook for tips).

• Introduce yourself to nonprofit, faith-based, community, and governmental organizations which utilize volunteers within your area of responsibility.

• Establish and maintain good relationships with organizations who have used JustServe in the past.

• Work with your Church communication director for a budget to order needed promotional materials (JustServe.org/resources).

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Connect with Church leaders

• Introduce yourself to the stake Relief Society president. Learn how members use JustServe. Offer to assist in building awareness with leaders and members.

• Through zone leaders or the mission JustServe specialist, learn where the missionaries in the stake are doing community service. Offer to help them find more and better community service opportunities.

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Promote awareness of JustServe

• Find out what social media platforms have been used to spread awareness of JustServe.

• Become familiar with awareness videos such as “JustServe: How to Help Your Community” (JustServe.org/resources).

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Use JustServe.org

• Browse and explore the JustServe website.

• Browse the administrative dashboard and training.

• Practice posting a project.

• Practice creating an organization page.

JustServe.org is provided as a service by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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