Urgent: Experienced Direct Service Volunteers Needed to Staff a Women's Space
ORGANIZATION: Cambridge Women's Center
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Urgent: Direct Service Volunteers Needed for Women’s Space!
Are you looking to volunteer directly with people? Do you enjoy taking initiative and creative problem solving? Do you have experience working with marginalized populations?
The Cambridge Women's Center is seeking experienced volunteers for specific hours starting immediately. Volunteers staff the Women's Center drop-in day program and answer our emotional support and resource referral helpline. We are a community space open to all women 55 hrs/week.Our community consists of many individuals experiencing difficulties such as homelessness, low or zero income, mental illness, trauma, and social isolation.
You will:
- Participate in cleaning, organizing, and other household tasks
- Perform regular walk-throughs of a four-story home and record center…
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3 Shifts
- 12:00 PM to 02:15 PM EST - Spots available: 7
- 02:00 PM to 04:15 PM EST - Spots available: 7
- 04:00 PM to 07:00 PM EST - Spots available: 6
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About Cambridge Women's Center
Location:
46 PLEASANT ST, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139, US
Mission Statement
The Cambridge Women's Center is open to anyone for whom woman is a meaningful identifier or lived experience. We offer a safe space for learning, emotional support, and empathy Our understanding of the terms woman and feminism is intersectional, and we strive to create a community that is inclusive and actively working towards justice for Black, Indigenous, People of Color, LGBTQIA+, those with disabilities and/or mental illness, folks experiencing housing insecurity and other Powerful Groups (both national and international) targeted for oppression.
Description
Founded in 1971, the Cambridge Women's Center offers FREE drop-in services to anyone for whom woman is a meaningful identifier or lived experience. It is open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from1-6pm. We strive to provide support and community to in a comfortable 4-story house a few blocks from Central Square, Cambridge. Those who use the Women's Center are very diverse, and include many who are homeless, survivors of sexual abuse, domestic violence, and other trauma.
Volunteers welcome and assist visitors. Women come for food, clothing, T-passes, and basic material goods like toilet paper, deodorant, and hand warmers, as well as emotional support, help finding resources, to use computers or a phone. There is a living, dining, clothing, and art room,kitchen, library, and an elevator to all four floors. We also offer support groups on-site, and remotely, facilitated by volunteers. Groups include: yoga, sewing, knitting, art, writing, trauma support, Spanish/English conversation, women over 65, coping group.
We ask for a commitment of at least 2-3 hours a week for at least 6 months. Basic orientation/training will be provided.
Please fill out our volunteer application on our website: www.cambridgewomenscenter.org and send it to Dosa Chidandali dosa@cambridgewomenscenter.org
CAUSE AREAS
Advocacy & Human Rights,
Community,
Crisis Support
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
This opportunity has 3 shifts
WHERE
46 Pleasant StreetCambridge, MA 02139
(42.36371 ,-71.10836 )
DATE POSTED
February 11, 2025
SKILLS
- Advocacy
- Case Work / Management
- Counseling / Mental Health
- Crisis Counseling
- Operations
- Social Work
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 2-3 hours weekly
- Please read requirements in description.