Getting Involved

• Employment Opportunities - 3 Positions Available - Updated 9/1/2010
  
• Things We Need - Please look at our Emergency Services Wish List
• General Volunteering - Ways to volunteer at Womanspace

Womanspace relies on volunteers for many projects that assist our programs and brings our mission into the community.
Please take a look at our volunteer opportunities and upcoming events.
For more information, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at 609-394-0136 or saa@womanspace.org.

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Current Volunteer Needs

• Communities of Light (COL) Volunteers Needed: October - December 2010
  • Download the COL volunteer form and mail to 1212 Stuyvesant Ave, Trenton, NJ, 08618.
  • Please email saa@womanspace.org or call 609-394-0136 for more info.
  • Area and Street Coordinators:
    • Organize 1 or more streets in your immediate neighborhood. Distribute forms and collect orders. Return orders & money to your Garage Coordinator or directly to Womanspace. Pick up & distribute kits for your area.
  • Organization Coordinators:
    • Work with members of your neighborhood association, service organization, congregation, school or workplace to identify a specific area to display luminaries. Distribute forms and collect orders/payments. Return orders and money to the Garage Coordinator or to Womanspace. Pick up and distribute kits for your program.
  • Distribution Volunteers:
    • Pick up kits and deliver to neighborhoods and retail outlets as needed.

• Home Schooling Tutors Needed: details here

• Volunteers Needed for Agency Newsletter Distribution: details here

• The Emergency Shelter's Wish List (Donations Needed): updated here

• Family Law Attorneys, bilingual a plus, are also needed to assist with the Womanspace Legal Clinic.

• 2 more tutors needed!
  

  POSITION: Home School Tutor REPORTS TO: Educational Coordinator and Director of Emergency Services LOCATION: Emergency Services (Shelter) TIME COMMITMENT: On an as-needed basis, 8 hours per week, commitment of 6 months POSITION SUMMARY: Provide educational instructions under a home-schooling model to resident children of the Emergency Services. SPECIFIC DUTIES: Meet Monday through Thursday morning with shelter children who are participating in the Home Schooling Program. Provide instructional lessons utilizing NJ Educational Curriculum. Document all interaction. Work either as a head tutor or assistance. Maintain communication with Educational Coordinator. TRAINING: Womanspace volunteers are expected to complete trainings on the following topics: Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Effects of Domestic Violence on Children. Training related to program activities is also expected. SUPERVISION: Weekly or bi-weekly meetings with Educational Coordinator.   About the Home-Schooling Program: When women and children come into shelter they are in crisis. The danger that brought them here could extend to where the children attend school. Often they face placing their children in a different school temporarily, which potentially adds on yet another level of stress for the children and mother. Womanspace wants to provide mothers an alternative option of home schooling. We need volunteers to provide home schooling services and tutor children at the shelter. Educational volunteers should be retired certified teachers, student teachers and/or community volunteers who love to teach. Volunteers would maintain communication with an Educational Coordinator who will oversee the home schooling process. After receiving training on the effects of domestic violence on children, volunteers must commit to a period of six months and will work on an as-needed basis, depending on the shelter clients' needs. In looking to launch this new service for our clients, Womanspace is looking for funding. If you or your organization wish to assist with this important project, please contact Susan Klejst, Director of Development (sdk@womanspace.org).

• New volunteer position available!
  

  POSITION:   Agency Newsletter Distribution REPORTS TO:  Vol. Coordinator LOCATION: Administration TIME COMMITMENT: 1 – 3 hours quarterly POSITION SUMMARY:  Volunteers needed to call upon libraries, natural food stores and spas located within Mercer County for interest in receiving the quarterly “Womanspace News” for distribution to their patrons. Volunteers needed to deliver 25 – 50 newsletters to participating entities. SPECIFIC DUTIES: Call libraries, spas and natural food stores within Mercer County to inquire about willingness to have Womanspace quarterly newsletter on hand for client pick up. Volunteers will deliver the new edition to participating entities in Mercer County within one week of publication. TRAINING:  To review sample script to use when calling libraries, natural food stores and spas. SUPERVISION:  To provide a list of entities contacted which indicates those who agreed to participate to Volunteer Coordinator. Confirmation from the volunteer to Volunteer Coordinator of the quarterly newsletter delivery to the libraries REQUIREMENTS:  Interest in calling upon their local libraries and a valid driver’s license to deliver Womanspace newsletter

• If you see any newspaper articles about Womanspace, please send them to Susan Klejst, Director of Development, at 1212 Stuyvesant Ave., Trenton, NJ, 08618. Please clip-out the date and title of the publication.