Volunteer for Women Helping Women

Volunteers are ordinary people who perform extraordinary work. It doesn’t take a great deal of time or sacrifice to make a difference in the life of another person. All it takes is the desire to reach out to others and a willingness to learn.

At Women Helping Women, they recognize the importance of volunteers. Many of their key services depend upon dedicated volunteers and they provide thorough training, continuous educational opportunities and support to volunteers so that they feel confident in their work.

Opportunities

Women Helping Women offers various volunteer opportunities:

Hospital Advocates: Volunteers who wish to respond to calls and provide hospital accompaniment to rape survivors during the evenings, weekends, or holidays.

Court Advocates: Accompany survivors of domestic violence as they proceed through the court system. Volunteers are most often utilized to assist with arraignment court, which occurs Monday through Saturday and runs 8:45 am to approximately Noon.

Hotline Advocates: Volunteers who wish to answer calls and provide crisis

intervention on our 24-Hour Crisis Line may do so anytime Monday through Friday between the hours of 7 am and 5 pm.

Education Advocates: Assist with programs given throughout Hamilton County and the Greater Cincinnati area. There will be opportunities to attend community fairs and programs to provide information to the public about our services.

Administrative/Clerical Advocates: Are essential to organizing documentation, assisting

with valuable reports for funders and supporting the administrative work of our small staff. These volunteers may not need to attend training.

Training

Our agency offers a 40-hour training program two times a year, during evenings and weekends in April/May and August/September. Topics covered include: sexual assault, domestic violence, history of the agency, explanation of the agency's mission and services, crisis intervention, cultural sensitivity, personal safety, legal and mental health issues among others. Volunteers will learn the agency's policies and procedures for working with clients. There are specific instructions given on how to respond to a person in a crisis over the telephone as well as in person. In addition, the training provides information on court procedures that prepare the volunteer to provide in-court support and information to survivors.

Fall Volunteer Training dates have been scheduled.

For training and dates and any questions please contact: cincycommcorner@gmail.com

Women Helping Women is a non-shelter, social service agency providing crisis intervention, advocacy, support and education/prevention services to victims/survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking.

Women Helping Women is funded in part by the City of Cincinnati, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Victims of Crime Act, Violence Against Women Act and other sources of public and private support.