Volunteering

Monthly Volunteer Newsletter

•  August 2011
• July 2011

Volunteer Appreciation Week 2011

We appreciate your interest in volunteering your time, energy and talents at the Women's House. We encourage volunteer involvement in our service delivery. We also recognize that the abuse of women and children is a community issue and that volunteers from the community are part of the solution.

Volunteers enable the agency to deliver some services that it would otherwise be unable to offer.

Overall, the involvement of volunteers contribute to a greater quality of service to women and children.

Volunteers make a difference!

Criteria

• We ask that all volunteers be 16 years of age or older.
• If you are a former client of the Women's House, we will wait 6 months after the time you finish using our services, until we accept your application.
• All volunteers must get a police record check from their local police station and include it with their application.
• Volunteers will be asked to come in for a short interview.
• All volunteers are asked to attend and participate in a 1 day training on issues of women abuse, child abuse and in-house policies and procedures.
• All drivers are asked to attend a separate, additional 1/2 day training on safe driving procedures for clients of Women's House.
• All volunteers are asked to volunteer a minimum of 4 hours per month.
• We accept men as volunteers for drivers, maintenance, Board of Directors and Fund Development.
• Confidentiality and non-judgmental attitude are of the utmost importance.

Volunteer Areas of Interest

Where would you like to help?

• Photocopying
• Computer Work
• Special Projects - mail outs, stuffing envelopes, thank you notes

• Taking Board minutes
• Advisory Committee work
• Become a Board member

• Peer support visits with clients
• Answering business phone lines, answering doors
• Household routines - grocery shopping, meal prep, cleaning
• Helping organize store room, sort donations

• Shelter Maintenance
• Gardening
• Lawn Mowing
• Yard Clean Up
• Snow Removal

• Spending quality time with children
• Parent relief
• Accompany children on outings

• Pick up of clients
• Take clients to appointments

• Help with fundraising events
• Sitting on monthly committee

If you are interested in volunteering, please visit the following link: WHSBG Volunteer Database

*If you are interested in becoming a board member, please see further details here.

Women's House Serving Bruce and Grey
Business Line (519) 396-9814
Crisis Line (519) 396-9655
Toll Free 1-800-265-3026
Sexual Assault Crisis Line 1-866-578-5566