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Family Stress Center relies on volunteers to work
closely with our staff to provide the services that strengthen families and
bring awareness to the issues of child abuse and neglect. Whether you
choose a long-term commitment or a one-day project, a leadership role or direct
service with clients, daytime or weekend activity, your skills and efforts can
help us achieve safe and nurturing environments for children and families.
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Board of Directors
Help guide the mission of Family Stress Center by serving as a member of
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Board of Directors to help raise funds, assist in strategic planning and
advocate support and awareness for the agency in the local community.
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Please contact Jennifer Stasch, at 925-827-0212, Ex. 107, for
more information and an application.
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Volunteer opportunities include:
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| Group Projects -- Can accommodate 3 or more people, and children are
welcome for many of the activities |
- Landscaping -- Trim small bushes, weed garden, and freshen general
outside appearance at Concord and Antioch sites.
- Light Maintenance -- Freshen interior portions of building,
organize child play therapy rooms, paint interior portions of the building in
Antioch or Concord.
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| Individual Opportunities -- Rewarding opportunities to work closely
with staff in providing services to clients. Some opportunities can even
be adapted so that you can volunteer from your home. |
- Child Care -- Provide structured child care activities for children
whose parents are participating in Parent Education classes, Support Group
Meetings, and the Grandparent/Kinship Caregivers Support Groups and counseling
and anger management workshops.
- Child Safety Program -- Provide workshops in local schools to help
children identify and deal with potentially dangerous sexual, physical and
emotional assault.
- Parent Education Facilitators -- Facilitate 10-week parent
education classes throughout the county, with extensive training from staff.
Learn more
about free facilitator training
- Clerical Support -- Work with individual staff members on a variety
of clerical needs including filing, accounting, updating data bases, updating
and maintaining media lists and press relations.
- Parent Aide -- The Volunteer Parent Aide will transport children to therapy
and/or medical appointments.
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| Special Skills -- If you are an attorney,
notary, or CPA, your skills
and volunteerism are always welcome and appreciated. |
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We can design many of these opportunities to fit your needs and availability.
You can be sure that, as a volunteer with Family Stress Center, you become a
valued member of an energetic team to help children -- and adults -- live in
happy and safe families.
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