Report Your Peer Mentor Volunteer Hours
Peer Mentors are precious gifts to the TAPS family. The incredible support you give to our survivors is truly immeasurable. However, the volunteer hours you report can make a difference in so many ways, including showing donors the impact of our programs, services and resources, thus helping to secure needed funding to support the TAPS mission. Thank you for what you do to support other survivors and for submitting your volunteer hours for TAPS!
Submit your volunteer hours using the TAPS Portal. Select the "Manage Volunteer Hours" button found underneath your TAPS Portal profile and then select the "Request Volunteer Hours" link. In the field options, select as outlined below:
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Volunteer Hours For: select "Peer Mentor"
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Date Volunteered: enter month, day and year of day you volunteered, if reporting total hours volunteered for the month in one entry, select the first day of the month, enter total hours, and note in the description that these are all your hours for the month
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Category/Subcategory: use the guidance below to determine the appropriate selection combination, if reporting your hours in bulk for the month, you still need to report per separate category/subcategory
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select "Community"
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and subcategory "Mentored TAPS Mentee" for hours spent with your mentee and/or any other survivor who you provided one on one support at a TAPS event, online, phone, text, email, or in any other way
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and subcategory "Other" for hours spent in speaking engagements, table representations, or any other way you may have represented TAPS; enter a brief description when prompted to provide additional information
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select "TAPS Event"
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and subcategory “Facilitator” for hours spent facilitating an in-person care group, an online group, or a TAPS Togethers event
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and subcategory "Seminar Volunteer" for hours spent volunteering at a regional or national seminar
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and subcategory "TAPS Sports and Entertainment" for hours spent as a Peer Mentor volunteer at a Sports and Entertainment event
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do NOT submit hours for "TAPS Training" - TAPS Staff capture these hours on the backend when they register you for the event
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Description of Work: utilize this section to provide as little or much detail as you see fit, if you are submitting hours for a whole month you will note that here, i.e., "Total hours spent with mentee in January"
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Hours Volunteered: enter a numeric value of hours for the day/month you volunteered
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Submit
Return to “Manage Volunteer Hours” in the TAPS Portal to confirm your hours were submitted. The status will show "Pending" until approved by a member of the TAPS Peer Mentor team.
Email peermentors@taps.org for assistance if needed.
