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Flexible Schedule
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Portland, OR 97214
Resiliency research shows it only takes a bond with one adult outside their family for children to feel the positive effects for a lifetime. Enhance the well-being and development of young children by being a positive, stable, consistent adult in their lives. Create positive role models for at risk children and families; maintain safety and a positive learning environment. Help progress a child’s development through play and interaction. Bring joy into a child’s day and your own while learning age-appropriate positive discipline techniques, early childhood development theory, and Montessori Method for small groups of children aged 6 weeks to 5 years. Help with meal clean-up, laundry, folding clothing, donations, etc. Essential Qualifications: Ability to model interactions of teachers. Some lifting with children under 2 ½ years. Must love children and be able to interact positively. Choose from shifts Mon.-Fri, 9:00am-5:00pm. We ask for a 6-month commitment of 2 hours per week or more. If you love children, and want to help them grow; this opportunity is for you. Locations: 2609 SE 136 th Ave, Portland OR 97236 234 SE 7 th, Portland OR 97214 Family Relief Nursery: Provides essential services for families including parent education, therapeutic classrooms, home visitation, and other wrap-around services as a part of our early childhood programming. We are a prevention and intervention program that provides essential services at no cost, helping families establish safe, stable home environments.
Date Posted: Jul 25, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Portland, OR 97236
Many seniors and adults with disabilities want to stay in the comfort of their homes, but need extra support for their bodies, minds, and hearts. Moreover, their caregivers need a break to re-energize. Provide a beautiful and engaging, outdoor environment to enrich the lives of cognitively and physically impaired seniors and adults. Work with the Activity Coordinator to schedule garden tasks Work with Activity Coordinator to forecast plantings Interact with participants during activities Provide garden up keep, plantings and harvesting Essential Qualifications: Ability to provide basic garden tasks: planting, weeding, and harvesting. Ability to assess garden need and communicate those with Activity Coordinator. Specific skills in dividing plants, pruning and fertilizing. Open communication. Must be 16 years or older. Preferred Qualifications: Experience and/or studies in horticultural. Experience working with cognitively and physically impaired adults and senior citizens. Variable weekday hours between 7:30am-4pm Commitment of 6-12 hours a month for 6 months or based on the needs of the garden. Program orientation plus on-going feedback and coaching provided. Join a team of dedicated and fun staff in improving the lives others. Locations: Lambert House, 2600 SE 170 th Ave., Portland OR 97236 Marie Smith Center, 4616 N. Albina St., Portland OR 97217 Adult Day Services: Community-based medical and social models of age. Our adult day centers offers daytime respite services for caregivers and provide a supportive, therapeutic, and empowering environment for seniors and adults with a variety of health-related needs.
Date Posted: Jul 25, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Portland, OR 97212
As a Speaker’s Bureau Facilitator, Bring current clients of residential treatment to Washington, Gresham-Barlow, and Multnomah county high schools to speak in health classes. Clients share their stories about how addiction has impacted them in their lives, while you, as the facilitator, explain the Men’s Residential Center, talk about addiction and how it relates to the criminal justice system in our country, assist clients when they get stuck, keep clients on track, and ask follow up questions. Sample Activities: Bring 2-3 clients to a high school and speak in 1 to 7 classes. Facilitator does and intro for about 10-15 minutes, then each client speaks for 15-20 minutes, and then time is left for questions from students. Facilitator actively listens the entire time to make sure clients are staying on track and being supported with follow up questions. Before going to a school preparing clients for what to expect, provide questions to help them prepare, and discuss rules of Speakers Bureau. You will be helping educate students on addiction and providing a space for clients to give back to the community by utilizing their stories to help change students’ perspective on addiction. Time Commitment: Schedule varies depending on when schools schedule for us to come, but it always takes place any time between Monday-Friday, 6:30am-4:00pm from September to June. Depending on the month there could be 3-4 speakers bureaus a week. We are looking for a long term commitment. Qualifications: Comfortable with public speaking Strong skills with facilitating Empathetic and supportive of clients as they share their vulnerability Strong interpersonal skills Valid driver’s license Men’s Residential Center: A one-year chemical dependency and cognitive restructuring program utilizing therapeutic community, evidence-based practices, and compassionate accountability to provide our clients with the opportunity to make the choices to engage in recovery both from their disease of chemical dependency and from their criminal lifestyle/harmful thinking patterns.
Date Posted: Jul 25, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Portland, OR 97209
Be a supportive listener and explain resources for survivors of domestic and sexual violence who access our services. Hotline Advocates are often the first contact with domestic violence services that survivors have had, and are a critical source of information and support. Train to be a supportive listener, provide referrals, make safety plans with survivors, share information about navigating the civil legal system, and provide emotional support. Learn about social service resources in the community Develop a deeper understanding of domestic violence - useful across all public services Acquire triage skills - prioritizing needs and crisis support Advance your soft skills such adaptability, critical thinking, problem solving and interpersonal communication Extensive training provided Qualifications: Awareness of issues of domestic violence, homelessness, and diversity a plus Bilingual volunteers desired in ANY language! Must be 18 years or older Shifts available Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 6:00pm Commitment of 1 year, 3-4 hours per week Home Free: Our transitional and emergency services provide survivor centered support designed to prevent victims for having to return to abusive homes. We also support survivors by providing legal advocacy, advocacy in a health care setting, and at DHS.
Date Posted: Jul 25, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Portland, OR 97204
Restraining Order Advocates are a critical source of information, safety planning, and support! Train to assist petitioners with the necessary paperwork to file for a Temporary Restraining Order at the Multnomah County Courthouse, provide information and referrals, make safety plans with survivors, share information about navigating the civil legal system, and provide emotional support. Learn about social services resources in the community Develop a deeper understanding of domestic violence - useful across all public services Gain an understanding of how the courthouse and the legal system operates Learn how to work effectively with the legal profession Acquire triage skills - prioritizing needs and crisis support Advance your soft skills such adaptability, critical thinking, problem solving and interpersonal communication Extensive training provided Qualifications: Awareness of issues of domestic violence, homelessness, and diversity a plus Bilingual volunteers desired in ANY language! Must be 18 years or older Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 12:00pm Commitment of 1 year, 3-4 hours per week Home Free: Our transitional and emergency services provide survivor centered support designed to prevent victims for having to return to abusive homes. We also support survivors by providing legal advocacy, advocacy in a health care setting, and at DHS.
Date Posted: Jul 25, 2022
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