Intern Advocate
ORGANIZATION: Crossroads Safehouse
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Essential Functions
Intern Duties
- Shadowing weekly support groups for women and children, facilitating at least one during the semester.
- Shadowing residential advocacy sessions, client intakes, client exits, and performing each task as needed.
- Shadow one on one advocacy with children and adults. Interns will be asked to provide one on one time with children.
- In person crisis intervention with residents.
- Over the phone crisis intervention with clients.
- Helping residential advocates with the upkeep of the safehouse.
- Working with their site supervisor on program specific projects and development in the shelter.
Internship Expectations
- Must complete Violence Free Colorado online training modules (20 hours), attend one DV101 session, and attend CORE training at the start of their internship.
- Must participate in in-depth on-sight training with their internship supervisor and must be willing to participate in DART and Time To Talk.
- Interns must meet with their internship supervisor weekly for check-in and debriefing.
Qualifications
Recommended Coursework
- It is recommended (not required) that interns have an understanding of intimate partner abuse and have completed some relevant coursework such as a Women's Studies course or, if interested in working with youth, a Child Development course.
Benefits/Company Culture: Interns will be an integral part of a supportive team and have the opportunity to attend twice-monthly staff trainings on specific topics, professional development with members of the leadership team, and other trainings as they arise.
Additional Notes: Interns will be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, the Crossroads intern handbook, intern medical and liability release forms, and a photo release form.
Application Instructions: No phone calls. Please fill out the application by clicking the orange "I want to help" button above.
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About Crossroads Safehouse
Location:
PO Box 993, Fort Collins, CO 80522, US
Mission Statement
Mission: Crossroads Safehouse creates a safe environment for victims of domestic violence and promotes social change for the community through education and intervention
Description
Early in the spring of 1977, Ruth Edwards from the district attorney's office and Linda Miller from Larimer County Mental Health (LCMH) met to discuss their frustration with the lack of services for battered women in Larimer County.They decided a task force would be necessary to address the problem.
They set up a meeting of representatives from different human service agencies with the goal of providing more inter-agency coordination and continuity of service provisions to battered women. The task force began by printing a card for police officers to hand to battered women advertising the group. Posters and radio campaigns also brought women to the group.
It was recognized early on that the primary need of battered women was a refuge for themselves and their children; a place where they could stay long enough to begin breaking the cycle of battering and start making some significant changes in their lives.
Now, more than twenty years after the conception of Crossroads, we are able to offer a variety of services to the surrounding community. These services include:
- Safe Housing for battered women and their children
- Community education
- 24-hour crisis line
- Individual and group counseling
- Youth program
- Legal Advocacy
- DART (Domestic Abuse Response Team)
- Spanish Outreach Program
- Rapid Rehousing Program
CAUSE AREAS
Advocacy & Human Rights,
Community,
Crisis Support
WHEN
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WHERE
421 Parker StFort Collins, CO 80522
(40.5962 ,-105.128 )
DATE POSTED
March 12, 2025
SKILLS
- Youth Services
- Crisis Intervention
- Advocacy
- Group Facilitation
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Minimum of 10 hours a week for at least one semester