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P.O Box 17996
Richmond, VA 23226
Office: 804-249-9470
Fax: 804-249-9472
Safe Harbor is a
501(c) 3 Organization

  
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Stop the violence. End the silence.

Mission: Safe Harbor saves lives by providing education, advocacy, counseling & shelter to break the cycle of domestic violence.

Volunteer Needs

Currently, Safe Harbor organizes volunteers into teams based on individual volunteer interest. The teams are as follows:

• House Volunteer Team: staffing the shelter
• Hospital Accompaniment: on-call and responds to local hospitals to accompany survivors of violence during medical and/or forensic exams
• Court Advocacy Team: assisting Safe Harbor staff in providing information and resources to survivors as they navigate the legal system.
• Children’s Advocacy/Office Manager Team: providing childcare and greeting individuals in the community office in the evenings (also includes light administrative work on occasion)
• Community Outreach/Education Team: assisting with staffing ‘Safe Harbor’ tables at events and/or community trainings related to intimate partner violence and Safe Harbor services
• Marketing/Special Events Team: assisting development staff with public relations, fundraising and donor development
• Volunteer Engagement Team: assisting with guiding the volunteer program, interviewing potential volunteers, being an extra pair of hands for the volunteer training

Because of state accreditation standards, if you are interested in working with the individuals who are involved in the programming at Safe Harbor, you must go through a fairly intensive training that usually involves one evening a week for 6 weeks and two full Saturdays (a total of 20 - 40 hours, depending on your specific volunteer interests). Because of the intensity of the 6-week training, they only occur twice per year, usually in the spring and fall.

If you are interested in attending the training and being an on-going volunteer with Safe Harbor, please fill out the Volunteer Application and e-mail it to Stacie.

If you are not able to commit to the full training, but still want to support the work of Safe Harbor, another option is to participate in our regularly occurring Safe Harbor Day through Hands on Greater Richmond. Volunteers are needed to perform upkeep around the house at the shelter and in our community office. Projects will be determined upon arrival, but will include tasks such as painting, closet organization, and outdoor maintenance projects. You can register through the HandsOn Greater Richmond website http://www.handsongr.org/.