Become a Volunteer! Tenant Counselor Virtual Training Feb 2022

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Recruiting Organization: Tenants Together

Do you want to be a part of the fight for housing justice?

724,000 California households are still $2.5 billion behind in rent. Now more than ever it is imperative to keep our communities housed! Tenants have gotten organized in over 35 cities to bring tenant protections to the polls and to fight for more livable and affordable housing. In many counties across California, Tenants Together Statewide Tenants' Right Hotline is the only service that offers information and support to tenants.

It is time for all of us to fight back for those most vulnerable in our communities and take action against housing injustice & displacement in California. Join the fight and become a volunteer!

Join us VIRTUALLY at our next volunteer training series!Tenants' Rights Counselor TrainingTuesday & ThursdayFebruary 8, 10, 15 & 176:00 - 8:00pmALL (4) DAYS REQUIREDTo register fill out our volunteer form here! http://bit.ly/3o2ssjK How Tenants Together volunteers support California renters?

Tenants Together volunteers on our hotline have supported over 3,500 tenants to fight for their rights. We are all connecting remotely, so access to computer and internet are required to participate. We have four different volunteer teams to join!

Hotline Counselor

• Offer one-on-one peer support and tenant rights information to those in crisis on the Statewide Tenants' Rights Hotline (*Full English fluency is required to use our hotline tools, but if you speak English & Spanish, we would love to have you in a bilingual capacity)
• Meet one weeknight per week from 5:00 - 8:00pm PST; ~12-15 hours per month

Data & Tech

• Develop new models of user-friendly digital tools for tenants to advocate for their rights.
• Meet twice a month on first & third Monday evenings of the month from 5:30 - 6:30pm PST; ~10 hours per month.

Training & Organizing

• Create and co-facilitate Know Your Rights resources to support tenants in understanding their rights, new local ballot measures, and actions.
• Meet twice a month on the first & third Tuesday of the month from 5:30 - 6:30pm PST; ~10 hours per month.

Research & Advocacy

• Investigate tenancy issues in California either in conjunction with an issue campaign or independent research to fill knowledge gaps on tenant rights issues.
• Meet twice a month on the first & third Tuesday of the month from 5:30 - 6:30pm PST; ~10 hours per month.

We are in great need of bilingual English/Spanish speaking volunteers! At the moment full English proficiency is required to use all hotline tools. Please consider volunteering if you speak Spanish fluently so we can make the hotline as accessible to monolingual Spanish speakers and immigrant communities as possible.

Accessibility: This training series will only be offered online via video/teleconference. If you have any accessibility concerns, requests or comments please email nina@tenantstogether.org.

We aim to help build an anti-racist, feminist, multiracial, anti-oppressive tenant movement. This means we do not tolerate racism, homophobia, ableism, transphobia, islamophobia, classism, cis-sexism, or sexism. We also hope to continue working to make this event, and our office, as accessible as possible to everyone who is interested in being part of the fight for housing justice.

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Fee Amount: None

This opportunity is recurring