Eastern Regional Team Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Cleveland Rape Crisis Center
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The Eastern Regional Team Volunteer is responsible for assisting the Regional Outreach Specialist and
ERT Team with providing information and resources to the Geauga, Lake, and Ashtabula communities.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
- Attend Volunteer training, including Ambassador training
- Set up, attend, and tear down tabling events in the L/G/A communities and inform the community about CRCC resources
- Help with preparation, attend and co-facilitate outreach presentations with the Regional Outreach Specialist
- Attend community events
- Literature dissemination across the tri-county area
- Working toward a degree in Social Work, Communications, Education, or related field
- Committed to the mission of CRCC to prevent sexual violence, serve, and advocate for survivors
- Ability to connect with others, quickly establish rapport, and forge strong relationships
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Communicate well with diverse audiences, clients, staff, volunteers and partners both verbally and in writing
- Possess the ability to have cultural humility while working with unserved, underserved, inadequately served, marginalized and vulnerable populations
- Self-starter, highly motivated, keen attention to detail
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform other duties as assigned
- Valid OH driver's license and reliable transportation
More opportunities with Cleveland Rape Crisis Center
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
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
8334 Mentor AveSuite 100Mentor, OH 44060
DATE POSTED
May 7, 2019
SKILLS
- Community Outreach
- Cross-cultural Communication
- People Skills
- Public Speaking
- Relationship Building
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training
- 3-12 hours per week