Your Commitment
Thank you for your interest in joining the Crisis Intervention volunteer program. We ask you for a one-year commitment to the Crisis Intervention programs, starting at the conclusion of the training course. Your commitment includes one four-hour regularly scheduled shift per week, during which you will answer hotline calls and respond to hospital and police station accompaniments to provide in-person support to survivors of sexual and domestic violence. (Accompaniments often require the counselor-advocate to stay with the survivor beyond the four-hour scheduled shift). Additionally, one floating hotline shift per month and attendance at monthly in-service meetings (held on the second Monday evening of each month) are required of all Crisis Intervention volunteers.
Shifts can be taken from your home, your business, or anywhere you have easy access to a phone, privacy for the duration of the shift, and reliable transportation to area hospitals in case of an accompaniment. Cell phone use is discouraged for the purpose of our hotline. Hotline calls come through a switchboard and are transferred to the phone number of the crisis counselor-advocate by the switchboard operator.
For more information, please contact our Training & Volunteer Supervisor Claudia Batres-Flores, or call 213.955.9090×145. To download an application packet, click here. Thank you again! We look forward to working with you!