{"id":843,"date":"2024-06-21T20:45:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/?post_type=news&p=843"},"modified":"2025-03-24T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:20:53","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-mickey","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/news\/volunteer-spotlight-mickey\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight: Mickey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tell us a little about yourself<\/h3>\n

Despite having ‘Doolittle’ for a last name; I am often told that I do a lot. I grew up everywhere from a farm in the Ottawa Valley to the beaches of Florida, and I am still growing up on the border of Roncesvalles and Parkdale in Toronto. I learned French while skiing in Quebec, and Spanish while backpacking in Costa Rica, but English is the only language I know well enough to support others in learning it. I am grateful NYCH gives me an opportunity to do this! And if you want to learn more about me I will give you an opportunity to do that! Follow @nogoodmick on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mickey with his fur babies.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What skills are you using to volunteer at NYCH?<\/h3>\n

At NYCH; I started volunteering by working with the English conversation group and later went on become a mentor. Weekly facilitation of the English conversation group gave me the opportunity to develop; my leadership skills, my organizational skills, my program solving skills, and my creative thinking skills. The mentorship program has given me additional confidence, interpersonal skills, time management skills, and a greater sense of responsibility. The most useful skill for me at NYCH is active listening.<\/p>\n

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What are you most passionate about?<\/h3>\n

I went to George Brown for social service work because I want to help create a better Canada for everyone: no matter your social location. I love healthy eating and nutritional science: I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. I have a background in the arts: I was a visual arts major at Etobicoke School of the Arts but recently I have been spending my creative energy on music. If I had to answer<\/p>\n

“What am I most passionate about?” in two words it would be simple: “my cat”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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What are you currently working on?<\/h3>\n

Over the past few years I have perfected the art of brewing kombucha (a fermented tea that once you try you can’t deny). Currently, I have retired from growing gourmet mushrooms to devote my time to developing my musical talent. I write my own songs (the most popular one is titled “How to pet a cat”) on the guitar. Just last week I opened at my friends show with a performance of spoken word poetry but most currently, I am working on this cup of coffee!<\/p>\n

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Mickey Doolittle shares how his volunteerism at NYCH has helped build Mickey’s confidence, creativity, and leadership skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":852,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[23,35],"class_list":["post-843","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","category-volunteer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}