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Residential Mission Staff (Live-in)
ORGANIZATION: IN MY SHOES INC
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Looking for a role where you can make a meaningful impact in the community? Join In My Shoes, a mission-driven nonprofit providing a safe and welcoming community for pregnant women experiencing homelessness. As a Mission Staff Member, you'll commit to living alongside mothers and their babies, offering emotional support, advocacy, and contributing to daily house operations. This role is more than a job-it’s a transformative experience where you’ll build meaningful relationships, foster empowerment, and walk alongside moms in need. Enjoy benefits such as free room and board, a generous monthly stipend, and reimbursements for healthcare and mental health counseling. We are seeking dedicated women to commit at least one year of service living on-site with our moms and babies, creating an intentional community that changes lives.
Learn more and hear personal testimonies here: https://liveinmyshoes.org/serve/
Responsibilities:
Advocacy & Support
- Provide continuous advocacy, mentorship, and emotional support to resident mothers
- Embrace community activities, including prayer, community dinners, and house outings.
Daily Operations
- Assist in managing the house's daily activities, such as babysitting, transporting mothers to appointments, contributing to meals, and enforcing rules to create a safe and stable environment.
- Provide daytime and overnight house coverage by answering the phone, welcoming guests/visitors, offering tours, and receiving donations
Community Management
- Model essential life skills to mothers, such as time management, goal setting, and prioritization.
- Address and resolve interpersonal conflicts using healthy conflict-resolution skills
What we are looking for:
Educational Background
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent life experience
Passion for Service & Community Living
- Embodiment of our values: dignity, humility, and grit
- Deep commitment to serving women and babies
- Desire to live and work in solidarity with others, embracing the community lifestyle
- Ability to maintain professional and healthy boundaries
Communication & Organizational Skills
- Excellent communication skills for engaging with diverse groups
- Strong ability to multitask and stay organized
Benefits:
- Stipend: $1,500/month
- Free room and board, with access to community food and donations
- Monthly reimbursements in addition to the stipend:
- Health insurance: $300/month health insurance plan of your choice
- Mental Health Counseling: $130/month
- Cell phone: $25/month
- Vehicle use for day-off
- Vacation days: 24 days/year, in addition to 1 weekly day off
- Education award: up to $5,000/year for past or current schooling upon completion of a year of service
More opportunities with IN MY SHOES INC
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About IN MY SHOES INC
Location:
PO BOX 227301, DALLAS, TX 75222, US
Mission Statement
To provide a safe, welcoming community for pregnant women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Description
In My Shoes is a non-profit organization in Dallas providing community living within a safe environment. We are focused on assisting women who are pregnant and homeless or at risk of homelessness.
We provide the key foundation towards reaching the ultimate goal - stability and family unity.
In My Shoes is the only community living program in Dallas that provides support specifically towards pregnant, homeless women - while offering life, parenting, and job skills. All women who are struggling with homelessness, faced with the decision of bringing a child into this world, and are in need of a strong support system from peers and professional counselors are welcome.
Together, we rally around support, not pity. In My Shoes offers an ear, heartfelt respect, and dignity. Because being a mom means striving for family empowerment and a greater purpose - love beyond one's self. This program was created by those who have walked a mile in the shoes of the less fortunate or have had close personal relationships with those who have. Our staff simply wants to give to the community while explicitly supporting life and families in need.
CAUSE AREAS
Children & Youth,
Homeless & Housing,
Women
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
Multiple locations Dallas, TX 75211
(32.74336 ,-96.88872 )
DATE POSTED
December 2, 2024
SKILLS
- Advocacy
- Mental Health
- Conflict Resolution
- Faith-based Leadership
- Relationship Building
- Social Work
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 20
- This is a live-in, at least 40-hour-a-week position. We ask for a commitment of at least one year of service.
- -Passion for Service & Community Living -Embodiment of our values: dignity, humility, and grit -Deep commitment to serving women and babies -Desire to live and work in solidarity with others, embracing the community lifestyle