COPE Hotline is sponsoring a training for new volunteers on Saturday, Feb. 25th from 8am-1pm and Saturday, March 11th from 8am -1 pm. New volunteers must attend both sessions. COPE Hotline, which offers emotional support and crisis intervention to our callers, needs volunteer listeners. COPE fulfills its mission by providing a 24 hour hotline, a website, and outreach presentations and events. During the upcoming volunteer training, COPE staff end experts from the community will provide information and skills to new listeners in the areas of reflective listening, mental illness, suicide prevention and crisis intervention. In addition to two training sessions, eight hours of working with a veteran listener volunteer is required. After the completion of training, volunteers are asked to provide 2 - 4 hours per week of work as a listener. Flexible daytime and evening scheduling is available. Contact Miriam Stern, Volunteer Specialist at COPE for more information or to schedule an interview. 262-377-1477.