ARISE Youth Volunteering + Mental Health

Date: December 30th, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Facilitator: aikyam space
Participating Organization: ARISE

Overview

Program Design Workshop with ARISE
Design program that bring mental health awareness and action directly into our local communities. Leveraging the power of volunteering to create spaces where young people can find the social connection and emotional support often missing in modern systems.

Agenda

• 10AM-10.30AM: Compliance for Non Profits
• 10.30AM-11.30AM: Look back & Reflect
  • Collective reflection and discussion on the last year of work.
  • Evaluation of successes, areas for improvement, and identifying practices to discontinue.
• 11.30AM-2PM: Goal setting for 2026
  • Setting a goal for 2026
  • Identifying key stakeholders and their top three needs.
  • Defining which needs is ARISE currently solving for.
  • Mapping a draft impact levels from L1 to L4.

Participants

Yasar Arafath, Co-Founder

Overseeing ground-level operations. My role focuses on volunteer engagement, coordinating field activities, and managing projects to ensure effective and community-driven impact.

“The opportunity to reflect on my past activities in a supportive and safe space made the experience truly meaningful.”

Junide Khalid Odungat, Co Founder

I manage Research and documentation of organisation.

“Workshop encouraged me to reflect of previous actions.”

Read about our other Program Design Workshops

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