The volunteers that connect on our website tomorrow depend on the donors of today.
Double your impact - donate now and your gift will be matched by a generous VolunteerMatch supporter.
Read More
Mobile Mentors (Drivers)
ORGANIZATION: Knox Area Rescue Ministries
This opportunity is provided by VolunteerMatch's partner.
Please visit the new page to apply.
Please visit the new page to apply.
Purpose/Overview: KARM is focused on providing multiple opportunities for our residents to obtain their goals related to movement out of homelessness and away from the events that brought them to KARM. It is vital for our guests to attend necessary off-site appointments to continue on their path of transformation. Our volunteer transporters are there to transport residents to and from appointments, providing a safe, nurturing, and reliable environment for them while they’re out in the community.
Responsibilities:
- Provide a secure, caring environment for residents while they are out in the community at appointments
- Reinforce a message of hope, encouragement, and motivation
- Transport residents to appointments, to pick up medications, and to other pre-approved destinations
- Pick up and/or drop off prescriptions as needed
- Mobile Mentors will only transport students of same sex
- Stay with the guest while they are in their appointment
Time Commitment: One or more shifts per week, 2-hour blocks.
Qualifications:
- Clean driving record
- Mature follower of Christ
- Understand how to appropriately react to conflict situations and maintain healthy boundaries
- Good interpersonal skills: friendly, helpful, firm, confident
- Individuals who drive their personal vehicle while conducting business on behalf of KARM must
- Comply with all federal and Tennessee laws for drivers, including observing laws regarding distracted driving
Training/Preparation:
- Completed background screening done before onboarding stage
- Submit completed authorization form to obtain motor vehicle record
- Proof of vehicle insurance; submit copy of driver’s license
- Annual training offered for an array of topics
1 Shift
-
09:00 AM to 04:00 PM EST
Times are flexible, depending on appointments and usually within a two-hour block. Monday-Friday.
- NONE OF THESE TIMES WORK FOR ME, BUT I CAN STILL HELP
More
9 More opportunities with Knox Area Rescue Ministries
Request failed
{{ opp.title }}
This is a Virtual Opportunity.
{{ opp.location }}
We'll work with your schedule
{{ opp.dateStr }}
{{ opp.timeStr }}
More
Opportunities
Opportunities
About Knox Area Rescue Ministries
Location:
418 N. Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to seek to rescue the poor and needy of the Knox Area by providing recovery services in Jesus' name.
Description
Rescue, recovery and restoration - these three words represent both the promise of healing and the power of hope at Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM). Established in 1960 as the Knoxville Union Rescue Mission, we began as a shelter for homeless alcoholic men. Since then, KARM has been feeding the hungry, helping the needy and healing the wounds of lives shattered by homelessness, poverty, violence and despair. Indeed, our mission statement captures the commitment to this urgent need: "Our purpose is to seek to rescue the poor and needy in the Knox area by providing recovery services in Jesus’ name." By reaching out to hurting, homeless men, women and children in Jesus’ name, we seek to restore lives.
In addition to food, shelter and other basic necessities, we offer alcohol and drug counseling, group counseling, life skills training, parent education and family enrichment, educational opportunities and job training experiences. Our services are designed to repair the wounds of shattered lives and renew hope in people’s hearts by reminding them that they are not discarded or forgotten. KARM is the only agency in the Knox area that provides emergency overnight shelter and meals to all homeless in need. In additional to meeting the emergency food and shelter needs of thousands, an additional goal is to move those in hopeless and desperate circumstances to a residential status of stability and hope.
Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM) is a local Christian ministry devoted to rescue, recovery and restoration, who for over 49 years has worked to heal the hurting, feed the hungry, and shelter the homeless in our community. KARM is a key partner in the Knoxville Mayor’s Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness and works closely with other agencies to help facilitate getting the homeless off the streets and into safe permanent housing. Our professional affiliations include membership in the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions and the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability.
CAUSE AREAS
Faith-Based,
Homeless & Housing
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
This opportunity has 1 shift
WHERE
418 N. BroadwayKnoxville, TN 37917
(35.971455 ,-83.9236 )
DATE POSTED
December 16, 2024
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training