Volunteer Rape Crisis Counselor Training: Aps Due 11/25

That's right beautiful folks! We have another training starting in January and over the years the majority of our applications come in from the amazing people who are already hear spreading the word! Please please, spread the SFWAR love!

Interviews have already begun and applications are due by November 25th! I recommend that folks get their applications in as soon as possible.

In particular please spread the word to folks who are or have been: marginally housed or homeless, formerly incarcerated, immigrants, youth (currently 20 and under), trans and queer women of color.

More info here: http://www.sfwar.org/volunteers.html
Application available here: http://www.sfwar.org/pdf/app.pdf

Thanks so much!!!
Teresa and Evelyn

Delightful Development Department Desires Darling Dependable Dolunteer to help with Devent

We need help! (See above picture) She Who Laughs Lasts is NEXT SUNDAY- November 15th and we need help for day-off goodness. Do you like smiling at strangers? Sign up for our will call/ticket sales table! Do you like the power of having something other people want? Sign up for our Pizza/Beverage table! Do you prefer to NOT speak to other humans? Help us pick up trash before and/or after the event!

Whichever way you look at it, we have a spot for you! As a way to say gracias for your 60ish mins of work, you get to come in for FREEEEE to the event! AND you get a highfive- TWO HIGHFIVES- from Alma and Erica.

Please contact Alma Munoz almamunoz@sfwar.org or 415-861-2024 x301for available positions <3

Projects Around the Office! Weeee!

Hi All!!

Here's a list of projects that we need folks to take on. Taking a break from hotline but you still want to help out in the office? Here are some options. Let me know which one/s you want to take on!

Thanks!!!

Teresa

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Non Certified Volunteer Projects:

• Call Lola of North Beach 415-781-1817 ask for Ivan Nanola

• Request more stationary: blank, thank you, birthday(bday low priority).
• Go pick it up and bring it to the office when it’s ready.

• Call Lush 415-921-5874 the guy who works there hooks us up every year.
• Request a donation of up to 75 bath bombs or soaps or whatever they can give. Needed by Valentines Day 2010
• If they have something to offer soon, pick up and bring back to office when it’s ready.
• Cut out leaves for training tree. Ask Teresa or Evelyn where the leaves are.
• Outreach for January training.
• Print posters. Cut the info strips. Careful they often don’t line up when you try to cut multiple at once.
• Print ¼ page flyers, cut them up with the paper cutter.
• Put up posters, hand out fliers.
• For posters, esp hit TWB: all women bathroom doors at eye height when people are sitting on the toilet, 1 in elevator, front door of building, elevator door(the ones that are propped open) on each floor.
• Target the 5 prioritized communities: marginally housed or homeless women, immigrant women, formerly incarcerated women, young women (20 and under), trans and queer women of color.
• Contact local shops and get $5 and $10 gift cards. No chains. Places where you *could* buy something for $5 or $10. Think: books, groceries, self care(ie: sage, etc…), ice cream, music, video rental, guest passes to a gym or pool, movie theater ($10), game store (just awesome, mention Isaak), (peasant pies), arts/crafts places (flax)
• We go through a ton of these every year so try to get 80+ of these certificates.
• Volunteer Archive Cabinet:
• Files are currently in 2 drawers, spread it out down into the drawer beneath as well.
• Re-label all of the volunteer folders: color code labels alphabetically:
• Ie: A: pink, B: orange, C: blue, D: green… then cycle back through the colors for the next 4 letters.
• Label each hanging file folder with a colored tab that says the letter that the folder contains. Ie: “A” highlighted pink to keep with the color scheme.
• Alphabetize all of the volunteer files into these files by last name.
• Ie: Macedo comes before Martyny… Please don’t just put all the A’s together. Organize files within each letter alphabetically as well.
• Got experience with design? Design our new blog. Similar to our main site in color scheme, but with a volunteer program twist. Contact Teresa for support.
  

Tabling For Sins Invalid

We need help with tabling and onsite counseling for audience members at this year’s Sins Invalid.  This is an amazing evening of performance and a great opportunity to earn some hours. Folks who table will be able to watch the show (I’m still checking about the availability of seating).  NOTE:  Please arrive approximately 30 minutes before your shift to set up informational materials.

Please contact Amal as soon as possible if you are interested in tabling at 415-861-2024 x 309 or email amalkouttab@sfwar.org

Friday, October 2nd 2009 @ 8 pm (SHIFT 6:30-10:30)

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Saturday, October 3rd 2009 @ 8 pm (SHIFT 7-10:30)

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Sunday, October 4th 2009 @ 7 pm (SHIFT 6-9:30)

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See this blog post for more info on the event itself: http://sfwarvolunteers.blogspot.com/2009/09/performance-sins-invalid.html

Recruiting Storytellers

SFWAR is collaborating with the Oakland-based non-profit Creative Interventions and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Mills College to support the STORY-TELLING and ORGANIZING PROJECT (STOP), in which we collect stories about how individuals heal from, and/or find justice after, surviving intimate forms of violence. The stories are also being collected to publish an SFWAR chapbook that will serve as a resource to help other survivors and their communities find their own paths toward healing and justice in their recovery.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE YOUR OWN HEALING/JUSTICE STORY?

YOU WILL RECEIVE $20 TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROJECT

To be eligible to participate in the project, you must meet the following criteria:

** You must self-identify as someone who is a survivor from an intimate form of violence and be open to telling your story about how you are healing from the experience

** You must be willing to be interviewed once in person for 1 hour at the SFWAR office, in your home, or somewhere else where you are comfortable between October 6 and 21, 2009. A half-hour follow-up interview will also be conducted.

** You must be willing to sign an informed consent form that allows us to tape record the interview (you will be given control to strike anything from the record that you wish as well as a range of options for possible use of your recording)

If you are interested in participating in the STOP collaboration, please confirm by October 1, 2009 by contacting Amal Kouttab, Community Initiatives Director, SFWAR, at 415-861-2024 or by e-mail: akouttab@sfwar.org  We look forward to hearing from you!