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39 people are interested
Hotline Advocate
ORGANIZATION: Cleveland Rape Crisis Center
Please visit the new page to apply.
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39 people are interested
The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center provides the community with a 24-Hour Hotline, which receives over 3,000 calls a year. Calls are made by survivors of sexual assault, their friends or family members, area professionals, law enforcement, social workers and many others. Hotline Advocates answer these calls to provide callers with support, information, referrals and crisis intervention.
The Hotline utilizes a call-forwarding system that allows Volunteers to take shifts and respond to calls from their homes.
More detailed information, as well as Volunteer Applications, are available on our website at www.clevelandrapecrisis.org.
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About Cleveland Rape Crisis Center
Location:
1228 Euclid Avenue, Suite 200, Cleveland, OH 44115, US
Mission Statement
The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center supports survivors of rape and sexual abuse, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.
Description
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center was founded in 1974 in response to Cleveland’s long-standing need for services to assist survivors of sexual assault.
Before the 1970s, most people who had suffered sexual abuse suffered in silence. Feelings of guilt, shame or fear kept these women, children and men from speaking out about, much less reporting, their assaults. Only in recent years has their silence been broken, in part by their outrage and refusal to accept misplaced blame, and in part by their knowledge that others will be there to support them.
Lynn Hammond and Carrie Zander founded Cleveland Rape Crisis Center’s hotline in 1974. A grant from the Cleveland and George Gund Foundations allowed them to expand the hotline service and hire four full-time staff members: Lynn Hammond, Carrie Zander, Lorraine Schalamon and Jeanne Van Atta.
Over the years, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center has grown from a grassroots, volunteer-run hotline service to assist survivors of rape and sexual abuse to a 60-employee nonprofit organization providing leading counseling services, victim assistance in the justice system, and 24-hour services to survivors of rape and sexual abuse in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, and Ashtabula counties.
For more information, please visit our website at www.clevelandrapecrisis.org.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
526 Superior Ave., #1400Cleveland, OH 44114
DATE POSTED
August 27, 2015
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 40-hour training & 20 hours a month for one year.