Dr. Roz's Healing Place

Volunteer

[!] A Notice About Student Placement Opportunities:

Please be advised that there are no more Winter 2012 student placement positions available.

For a student placement opportunity in the Spring-Summer 2012 session, please contact us in April 2012.

Thank you for your interest in supporting Dr. Roz’s Healing Place.

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Are you looking for a way to help and don’t know exactly how? Let us help you find the perfect volunteer opportunity to suit your lifestyle, talents and abilities. Dr. Roz’s Healing Place values the opportunity to work with volunteers as we rely heavily on volunteer support in order to meet the various needs of our clients.

Each year, we meet and interview approximately 50 new potential volunteers, each with unique interests, experiences and goals to be met.

Dr. Roz’s Healing Place maintains a roster of approximately 100 volunteers per year which includes the Board of Directors, Placement Students and regular volunteers.

We appreciate the time that volunteers make in order to give back to their communities. Therefore, the Volunteer Program within Dr. Roz’s Healing Place is designed to meet your needs. As a volunteer, you can work with us once per week, bi-weekly, or monthly, depending on your availability.

Please note that volunteers are unable to shadow or take on the role of a front line counsellor. Any role that involves client interaction will involve the direction and support from supervisory staff.

Client Accompaniment

Many of our clients may not be familiar with navigating the city or with taking the TTC, may not speak English, or may simply need the company and support while venturing out into the community. Clients often go to court to obtain restraining orders, press charges against their abusive partners and fight for custody of their children. As a volunteer within this role, you will be responsible for accompanying clients to various appointments and relaying important information back to the front line staff.
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Women’s Group Facilitation

The daily women’s groups facilitated at Dr. Roz’s Healing Place are a great opportunity for volunteers to gain experience in working with clients in a group setting. As a volunteer within this role, you will have the opportunity to assist with planning, organizing and/or facilitating a group for the female adult clientele that we serve. Your knowledge and expertise can help to inspire, motivate and inform our residents about important issues pertinent to their daily living.
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Child and Youth Programming -No opportunities until further notice [Updated February 2012]

The children and youth that we serve are in need of your enthusiasm, support and creativity. As a volunteer within these programs, you may assist with cleaning and organizing the children’s activity rooms, preparing materials for a group or workshop, or assist staff in running groups and/or activities for the clientele.
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Community Outreach

Do you have a desire to help eradicate violence? Join our community outreach team as we educate the community about the issues surrounding domestic violence, family violence and youth violence. As a volunteer within this program, you will have the opportunity to assist with outreach through sharing information about special events, educating peers about domestic violence and assisting with community presentations or booth set-ups. Tasks and activities may include assisting with design and compilation of promotional materials, providing assistance with planning and execution of fundraising events, contacting and arranging promotional media for events, setting up long term partnerships with individuals and organizations who can assist with fundraising, seeking donations for gifts-in-kind and/or financial sponsorship of events, creating and sending out media kits to organizations to solicit support and preparing community speaking engagements in support of our anti-violence initiatives.
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Special Event Coordination

Are you dynamic, driven, creative and full of great ideas? Help out with our fundraisers or join our Fundraising Committee and help educate the public about the importance of the work that we do. We raise funds which will provide us the opportunity to expand and grow, while serving additional clients as the years progress. As a volunteer within this department, you will have the opportunity to plan and implement smaller fundraising events as well as work with the Community Outreach Department towards larger fundraising events.
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House Management

Maintaining a safe, comfortable and clean space for our clients to live is essential to their healing process. As a volunteer within the house management department, you will be assisting Dr. Roz’s Healing Place with tasks such as distributing food after a food delivery, sorting through & organizing in-kind donations, maintaining the Healing Place Garden, set-up for in-house events and activities and light maintenance duties both outdoor and in.
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Administration

Do you have strong organizational and clerical skills? Then we need you! Our administrative department is crucial to ensuring the smooth running of all operations at the healing place and is the backbone of our team. As a volunteer working in an administrative role, you have the opportunity to work in various departments within the Centre, depending on the administrative need at the time. Examples of tasks within the Administrative role include creating, organizing or shredding files, donor mail out, photocopying and faxing material, sending out correspondence via mail, email, fax or telephone and more.
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Placement Student Opportunities

If you are ready and willing to work hard, take initiative and truly impact the lives of abused women and children in a positive way, then a student placement at Dr. Roz’s Healing Place may be for you! We greatly value our relationship with College and University Social Service-related Programs across the GTA and beyond.

As a Placement Student within Dr. Roz’s Healing Place, you will be challenged daily, with involvement in administrative roles, client interaction, client advocacy, program planning, client assessment and documentation. All of our student placement opportunities are designed for students who are flexible, professional, dedicated, mature, grounded, compassionate, creative, kind, and who have exceptional verbal and written communication skills. As our student placement opportunities are in high demand, our interview process is detailed and lengthy.

Since our placement opportunities are limited to 5-6 opportunities per year, it is important that you apply as early as possible within the calendar year.

Dr. Roz’s Healing Place begins interviewing students in March for the upcoming Fall semester. For example, March 2011 for the upcoming Fall 2011 /Winter 2012 period.

The following departments accept one placement student per semester / year: