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8 people are interested
2018 Sustainability Coach
ORGANIZATION: Redemptive Work
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8 people are interested
Redemptive Work (RW) is looking for volunteers interested in working one-on-one with displaced, disabled, formerly incarcerated or other socially outcast persons to create sustainable living situations. Our clients are in need of assistance accessing local resources and services, personal goal setting, employment search, and more. In the beginning, RW workers can train you to find and pass on these resources.
On Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8:30am-3pm, Redemptive Work holds a walk-in clinic where clients meet with coaches to find solutions for overcoming their societal barriers on a case-by-case basis. Coaches meet with individuals one-on-one to assess their needs and work with them to create realistic and actionable short-term and long-term goals. Meetings take place to achieve these goals over the course of the next weeks and months until the client has achieved sustainability in their life (stable income, manageable housing, and access to healthcare). Coaches receive training and resources on life and career coaching, accessing social services, capacity building, and community outreach. In return for ongoing training and opportunities for greater responsibility, we ask that our volunteers commit to a minimum of 2 hours per week for at least 3 months.Requirements:
- Availability Wednesdays and/or Thursdays from 8-3
- Work a minimum of 2 hrs per week
- Willingness to develop cultural sensitivity and compassion for others
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About Redemptive Work
Location:
205 E Monroe, AUSTIN, TX 78704, US
Mission Statement
Making sustainable living a reality for displaced or seemingly unemployable persons.
Description
Redemptive Work (RW) is dedicated to making sustainable living a reality for displaced and seemingly unemployable persons.
RW serves homeless, previously incarcerated, and disabled persons navigating barriers to sustainable living. Our work began when Rev. Dr. Tina Carter joined RW Executive Director Rev. Dr. Mindy Johnson-Hicks in writing The Wealth of Poverty (Outskirts Press, 2013); an exploration of the ways authentic relationships across socio-economic groups enables collective prosperity. During this collaboration, it became apparent that under-served populations of homeless, previously incarcerated and disabled people shared common barriers to finding employment, housing, and healthcare. RW incorporated in 2013 to learn to navigate those barriers. We meet with people weekly, one-on-one, to discuss goals and strategies necessary to achieve sustainability beyond societal barriers. People need adequate work, safe shelter and access to health care and we are here to ensure a community is present to help them find all three. We also help people overcome obstacles by coaching them to fill out forms for jobs or obtaining a Driver's License or Social Security Card, government benefits. We help people face the challenges that so often prevent marginalized persons from re-engaging in society in a sustainable way. We also help our clients to understand what their strengths are instigating self-advocacy in a profoundly disenfranchising system.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1122 Colorado St. Suite 105205 E MonroeAustin, TX 78701
DATE POSTED
November 18, 2017
SKILLS
- Veteran Care
- Life Coaching
- Case Work / Management
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 19