Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer

Looking for a rewarding way to give back to your community? Interested in becoming part of an integral team dedicated to helping women and children living with abuse? The Shelter offers many volunteer opportunities for those in the community interested in helping with this important issue. Volunteer opportunities include:

  • Answering the 24-hour hotline
  • Assisting staff at the emergency shelter
  • Facilitating children’s programs/group activities
  • Helping with special events and fundraisers
  • Providing a temporary pet-safe home for victim’s pets
  • Taking items to the recycling center, grocery runs, other errands
  • Helping organize donation items and transporting them to the residential facility


All volunteers must complete some level of training. The Shelter offers a full volunteer training session three times a year and also provides individual training on an as-needed basis.

Our volunteer application is temporarily closed as we go through the hiring and training of our new Community Engagement Coordinator.
Please check back in early 2026!

Other ways you can help include making a tax-deductible donation to the Shelter or purchasing items from our Shelter Wishlist. For more information about donations and to view our wishlist, click here.

What You Can Do to Enact Change

1
Learn more about issues related to domestic and sexual violence. Read books and articles, attend lectures, watch educational television shows.
2
Evaluate your own language, beliefs and attitudes about traditional gender roles, roles in relationships, and the issues of domestic and sexual violence as a whole.
3
Address un-informed remarks and offensive jokes that you may hear from other people. Re-educate people, or let them know that you are not tolerant of their behaviors.
4
Do not support movies, television shows or other forms of mass media that portray eroticized violence against women and children.
5
Write letters to newspapers, magazines, companies and politicians expressing your support or concerns about their practices.
6
Model respectful behavior for children.
7
Be supportive of people who are survivors of domestic or sexual violence. Do not practice victim-blaming.
8
Support organizations and legislation that empower people in our society who are most vulnerable to domestic and sexual violence.