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General Event Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Wesley Shelter, Inc.
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Help us bring awareness, community, and support to survivors throughout the year.
Wesley Shelter is seeking enthusiastic and dependable volunteers to support our events throughout the year, especially during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. As a General Event Volunteer, you may assist with event setup and cleanup, registration, greeting guests, passing out materials, running activity stations, or helping wherever needed to ensure things run smoothly.
Events are held periodically throughout the year, with most opportunities occurring in October. Volunteers can sign up as their schedule allows.
Whether you're available for one event or multiple, your time and energy help us make these experiences meaningful and impactful for our community.
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About Wesley Shelter, Inc.
Location:
106 E. Vance Street, P.O. Box 1426, Wilson, NC 27894, US
Mission Statement
Wesley Shelter, Inc. began in 1983, as a domestic violence shelter for women and children. The purpose of this agency is: (A) to provide emergency shelter, rehabilitative services, court advocacy, counseling, job and housing placement, and community referrals to women and children who are in crisis as a result of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and/or homelessness; (B) to provide teen pregnancy counseling and adolescent parenting skills to teen mothers in order to reduce the incidents of child abuse and neglect and to forster the completion of high school education for teen mothers; and (C) to provide professional and community education on domestic violence, sexual assualt, homelessness and adolescent parenting.
Description
Wesley Shelter provides shelter and a broad base of services to meet the transitional and long-term needs of abused and homeless women and children, as well as victims of sexual assualt. We aid and assist women in obtaining safe and secure emergency housing and help them to work towards an independent living status for both themselves and their children. We also assist women in obtaining protection form violence utilizing the legal system. We provide intensive children's support services in order to break the generational cycle of violence. In addition,we educate the local community about the needs of the the women and children we serve. Finally,we provide counseling and support services to pregnant or parenting teens.
CAUSE AREAS
Community,
Emergency & Safety,
Women
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
106 E. Vance StreetP.O. Box 1426Wilson, NC 27894
(35.720 ,-77.920 )
DATE POSTED
June 12, 2025
SKILLS
- Youth Services
- Community Outreach
- People Skills
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Public Groups
- Private Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 16
- Most events are around 4 hours
Private Group Details
- Group Size Range 1 - 50+
- Event can be held at organization location(s)
- No Donation