LibGuides: Community Volunteer Opportunities: Abuse Support and Prevention

Volunteer Opportunities - Abuse Support and Prevention

Safe Passage Children's Advocacy Center
Safe Passage gives abused children a voice and enables the healing process by acting as the single source of contact for medical, investigative, and legal services. Safe Passage serves children from birth to the age of 18, as well as intellectually developmentally disabled adults, who are victims of sexual or physical abuse and/or are witnesses to homicide or domestic violence. With our team partners we provide a holistic approach to addressing child abuse that keeps investigations child-focused and offers the most comprehensive services available.
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Family Support Volunteers are the welcoming face of Safe Passage for children, caregivers, and professionals. They assist staff in providing a child-friendly, private, comfortable, and supportive environment for child victims. Duties include age appropriate and companionable playroom supervision and spending time with adolescent and teenage children. Duties will also include a variety of tasks related to our administrative functioning.

We do ask that our volunteers commit to at least 1 shift of 4-5 hours per week over a period of 6 months, which take place during normal working hours Monday-Friday 8am-5pm. As an organization that works with children, we also ask that our volunteers provide 3 personal references and undergo our standard background check.

Minimum age is 18.

For information contact:
Laila Jaffer
volunteercoordinator@safepassagecac.org
TESSA
TESSA is the only provider of confidential services specifically for victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (DVSA) in El Paso and Teller Counties. We provide immediate safety at our confidential Safehouse for women, children, and other victims escaping abuse. We empower survivors through programs and support such as Advocacy and Counseling. We create a safer future through Education and Outreach to schools, businesses, and other organizations.
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Volunteers could participate in the following ways.
Administrative Support: Provide filing, data entry, phone support and special project assistance.
Children’s Program: Educate and facilitate art and recreational activities with children living with, or coming from homes with, domestic violence and abuse.
Confidential Victim Advocacy: Assist clients with the Temporary Protection Order process, court support, safety planning, information/referral services, and hospital response.
Safe Line: Provide telephone crisis intervention, information and referral services on our safe line.
Development: Assist with special events and projects, administrative support, data entry, and fundraisers.
Safehouse: Provide case management and client services for female victims and their children residing in the Safehouse.

Minimum age requirement is 18 for client-facing positions and
16 for Development and Administrative.

For information contact:
Lori Shumate, Volunteer Coordinator
719.785.6820
lshumate@tessacs.org