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Advocacy Coordinator: Oversees all the activities provided by the family support system. The advocacy coordinator will act as a head coach that ensures that each friends coach or leader of each friends team is prepared and has the support they need to make sure that their friendship team activity is a success at every level. This position is projected to be a full-time position that will require a full-time commitment and receive a salary.

Friends Coach: The friends coach or team leader is a volunteer person who has a desire to lead a small team of 4 to 5 volunteers or friends who provide a particular activity at the Joshua House.

Friendship Teams: These are teams that consist of 4 to 5 volunteers that include one coach and 3 to 4 friends. By placing individual volunteers in a team setting, it will help them to have a positive experience at the house and provide a sense of belonging to their group. The team concept enables members to build meaningful relationships that will remain strong beyond their experience at the house.

Friends: Friends are volunteers who donate their time to a friendship team. Friends will primarily but not exclusively be recruited from local churches, community based groups, and individuals living in the local community. Friends who are volunteers at the house will naturally be allowed to form meaningful relationships with the children and their families. The house setting is vital to our mission because it provides a neutral non-threatening environment for relational encounters to occur. These encounters will permit bridges to be built into the lives of exceptional families. These bridges, built out of service, will act as a natural conduit for God's love and compassion to be shared with special needs children and their families.

Day Friend: A day friend is a person who comes to the house for one day to try out. This is a volunteer experience that allows individuals to see how they like the friends for families experience. If we have done our job as a friends team, and the day friend has had a positive experience at the house, then they can become a friend. If they feel drained or overwhelmed by the experience then they are under no obligation to come back. Hence the term day friend.

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