|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Give Help Now
|
|
Work with the Community Crisis Center as a Group
or Organization Scout troops, service organizations, co-workers and school and church groups often are interested in volunteering with us, either as a one-time experience or on an ongoing basis. A recent example of a one-time event involved employees from Kraft Foods who spent a day working with our shelter manager cleaning and re-organizing the shelter kitchen and sorting through donated coats and winter wear. An example of an ongoing partnership in FY 2005 has been a group of Judson College students who cooked a shelter meal and planned a children’s activity twice a month. In order to accommodate such requests, we ask that groups contact us at least one month in advance of the date that the group wishes to volunteer. We will help you determine if your group is a good fit with our current needs and we can arrange for necessary orientation and logistics. Our priorities are the safety, comfort and confidentiality of our shelter residents and walk-in clients, so volunteer experiences must be planned from this perspective. It is our belief that a well-planned and coordinated group volunteer effort can be beneficial and meaningful to the volunteers, our clients and our agency. Teachers and students from K-12 schools and colleges are often interested in service learning opportunities. Staff members from the Resource Development Office can work with individuals and small groups to help link their service experiences here at the Community Crisis Center with the learning objectives of a particular class. Those college and graduate school faculty members and students who are exploring formal internship opportunities, however, should contact the Director of Client Services for more information. Many groups from faith-based organizations approach us about volunteer opportunities. We welcome such partnerships, because our relationships with area faith communities have sustained us for many years. With regard to our clients, we recognize the role that faith and spirituality have for many of them as they are recovering from crisis in their lives. However, we respect the rights of an individual to have her or his own belief system, and we welcome the diversity of beliefs represented by our clients, staff members and volunteers. Therefore, we ask that those volunteers coming to us from a faith-based organization understand that proselytizing is not allowed when working with our clients.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
