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11 people are interested
Application Lab Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Center for Changing Lives
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11 people are interested
Application Lab Volunteer
Background: Center for Changing Lives (CCL)’s vision is a community where everyone thrives. Too often, resource and economic opportunity limit participants’ choices and capacity to achieve their goals and vision. CCL partners with those held back by lack of resource and economic opportunity in order to uncover possibilities, overcome barriers, and realize their potential in the form of partnership through coaching, training and educating, coalition building, advocacy and organizing. CCL’s core services of financial, employment, and resource development coaching are supported by the time, skills, and dedication volunteers.
One obstacle that some CCL members encounter while working towards goals is access to computers and application assistance. CCL has created an Application Lab, designed to support clients in job searches, cover letters, resumes, housing searches, and application submittals for employment, apartments, and/or public benefits. This provides clients a space to have free computer access and the extra support they may need as they search for and apply to jobs, housing, and income support.
Position Overview:
This volunteer will facilitate up to 5 clients in an open-lab setting. Clients will be pre-scheduled for application lab and set up on laptops. The volunteer is responsible for answering questions, as best they can, seeking further assistance as necessary, and supporting clients in housing and job searches as well as applications for jobs, apartments, or benefits. CCL’s employment coach and business solutions coach will coordinate with the Application Lab volunteer directly to ensure that the volunteer knows what clients are working on and that coaches know where client applied to. Clients who have proven to be most successful in their goals are those that are granted access and ability to completing applications.
The Application Lab volunteer will communicate most closely with the Resource & Connection Coordinator, the Employment Coach, the Business Solutions Coach, and the Digital Literacy Coach. They will work with CCL laptops. Volunteers will be trained by the Resource & Connection Coordinator and Employment Coaching staff, as well as be shadowing other volunteers.
CCL is seeking a volunteer who can commit to at least one 2 hour application lab per week, on a Tuesday or Thursday from 2-4pm.
To be most successful in this position, volunteers should have the following qualifications:
Adaptability
Able to work with clients 1-1 or in a group
Attention to detail
Self-awareness
Organization
Good communication
Make others feel comfortable and confident talking about their experiences and competencies
Bilingual preferred, but not necessary!
Provide support for those facing lack of resource, support, and economic opportunity
Build your network of professionals and community members working for structural policy change surrounding low-income housing, employment, and resource allocation
Opportunity to develop professional and nonprofit skills and relationships that can be used on a resume
Opportunity to build strong employment references
Opportunity to lead on an advocacy project or create a group within CCL
More opportunities with Center for Changing Lives
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About Center for Changing Lives
Location:
1955 N. St Louis Ave, 101, CHICAGO, IL 60647, US
Mission Statement
Center for Changing Lives mission is to provide comprehensive support to serve, empower and advocate for community residents experiencing homelessness and housing instability so they may obtain and maintain permanent housing.
Description
Center for Changing Lives (CCL) is a little agency making a big impact. Successfully providing a range of innovative services, CCL brings financial coaching to a population traditionally deemed unprepared for it: Households currently experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The agency offers a mini-continuum of bundled services that include housing, financial and employment coaching coordinated and integrated with income support and homelessness prevention services. CCL is at the forefront of utilizing coaching and financial capability services to prevent and end homelessness, particularly among the predominantly Latino population on the Northwest side of Chicago. CCL believes integrated, comprehensive services delivered in a long-term, highly transformative, empowered partnership are needed to ensure households move beyond crisis to stability, from immediate considerations to future ones. That belief has informed a model that is both qualitatively and quantitatively successful and has resulted in increases in participants’ financial capability, income, and self-sufficiency.
CCL’s mission is to provide comprehensive support to serve, empower and advocate for community residents experiencing homelessness or housing instability so they may obtain and maintain permanent housing. The vision is to transform lives and inspire neighbors to build a stable, supported and connected community. Financial instability, including under- and unemployment, continues to be a leading reason why many of CCL’s clients are experiencing homelessness. In response, CCL utilizes the Center for Working Families (CWF) model to increase employment, mobilize subsidies and mainstream benefits, and reduce household fees and expenses simultaneously, taking a holistic approach to building financial stability necessary for long-term housing stability. CCL is unique in that it is the only organization using the CWF model to serve households, including single parents with children, experiencing and at-risk of homelessness who are living in shelters. By successfully utilizing this model with those experiencing homelessness, CCL is bridging the workforce, financial and homeless services systems and developing an evidence-based argument for using financial services to addresses housing instability.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1955 North St. Louis Ave101Chicago, IL 60647
DATE POSTED
December 6, 2016
SKILLS
- Internet Research
- People Skills
- Basic Computer Skills
- Cross-cultural Communication
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- At least one 2 hour session per week.