Event Description:
Join Access Institute as we celebrate our collective strength and support a cause that touches lives across the Bay Area. Access Institute serves as San Francisco's mental health safety net, providing care to individuals of all ages, ensuring brighter and healthier futures.
A Transformative Evening
Guests will step into an evening of beauty and purpose on the stunning San Francisco waterfront. They will be among the more than 300 passionate souls, including community members, visionary civic leaders, talented artists, dedicated mental health professionals, and esteemed guests.
2025 Event Theme
"Supporting a Healthy, Vibrant San Francisco" Our theme reflects the love we have for our city and our commitment to supporting San Francisco’s diverse community. Access Institute is proud to serve as San Francisco's mental health safety net, ensuring that people of all ages have access to high-quality, affordable care, and by doing so contributing to the health and vibrancy of our city.
What we'll be doing:
Volunteers will be helping to register the 300 guests using specific software. Training begins promptly at 4:30 pm so please arrive on time. Event guests will begin arriving as early as 5:00 pm.
In addition to the onsite training, Access Institute will send the registration team a short video to watch the week of the event to give them a glimpse of what the platform looks like.
What you should know:
Volunteers for this shift MUST be able to work the entire shift. Please DO NOT sign up if you can not complete an entire shift.
Dress code: Cocktail attire/business casual with comfortable shoes. No jeans, t-shirts, or revealing clothing
Parking: For volunteers who are driving to the event there is a parking lot adjacent to the venue. Volunteers will be issued a ticket to place on their windshield.
Volunteer Snacks: Healthy snacks and water will be available for the volunteers.
Volunteer Dinner: Dinner will be available to those volunteers working 2 shifts or over 4 total hours only.
Mask Policy: Masks are not required. If you are not feeling 100% healthy please let us know, stay home and rest.
Where to Meet:
Volunteers will meet with Paulina, Gregorio or Karen. They will be at the entrance of Pier 27. Just let somebody at the front desk know you are here to volunteer and for what position.
Please wear your orange One Brick lanyard if you have one.
Access Institute for Psychological Services:
Our Mission: Access Institute is committed to making quality mental health care affordable to San Franciscans, particularly to those individuals and families who fall within the broad gap between those eligible for publicly-funded mental health programs and the more affluent who have adequate insurance or the financial means to afford treatment. Along with providing direct service, Access Institute is committed to providing psychoanalytically-oriented clinical training and supervision to clinicians seeking licensure in a mental health discipline.
Description: Access Institute offers a full range of psychological services, including family, adolescent, and child therapy, adult psychotherapy (individual, couple/marital, and group therapy), geropsychology, psychological assessment and testing, and medical consultation.