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We have ongoing opportunities to serve in these areas:
From your home ‘pray where you are’:
Administrative; coming into the Terebinth Office/serving with office staff:
Hope and Healing Store:
Handy Person projects at one of our homes or office:
Working directly with residents at one of our homes:
Yes, you can volunteer once in our administrative needs. But because we value relationships and train our volunteers, we do ask that our volunteers serve consistently (weekly, monthly, or quarterly).
For our ongoing volunteers, you must be at least 19 years old. For transportation volunteers, you must be at least 21 years old and hold a valid driver’s license and insurance.
For group activities, including donation organizers, you need to be at least 13 years of age. Those who are under age 18 must always be supervised by an adult.
Yes, our volunteer opportunities can be scheduled during evening hours or on the weekends.
We do not.
No. You bring your interest/skill area, and we will train you to serve alongside our women.
Absolutely. To maintain the safety and security of our residents, staff, and volunteers, a criminal background check is required as well as fingerprinting. Volunteers that serve directly with our residents must be trauma-informed, practice healthy boundaries, complete required training, sign a confidentiality agreement, undergo a background check, and fingerprinting. Terebinth Refuge asks that volunteers pay for the background check and fingerprinting so that we do not take any money away from programming for the women. The cost is $44.00 for the background check and $10.00 for the fingerprint (financial assistance may be available).
Safety and security are top priorities at Terebinth Refuge! We have security cameras, an extensive alarm system, a panic button, as well as fully trained staff that are at the shelter 24 hours a day.
We do have opportunities for groups of people to partner with Terebinth. The best way for groups to serve is organizing and sorting donations, lawn care and clean-up, outside house projects, serving at fundraising events, collecting items from our need’s lists, and helping with our mailings.
If groups would like to lead classes (have direct contact with our women) like facilitating arts and crafts, life skills, exercise class, and such. The leader of that group is to go through our training process. If it is an ongoing class, then we ask that everyone in the group goes through our training process.
If you have questions or have other ideas, feel free to present them to our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@terebinthrefuge.org
That will depend primarily on the activity. We have had volunteer groups as small as 2 and as large as 15. If you have a larger group that is interested in volunteering, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator to discuss what options are available.
The first step is reaching out to the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@terebinthrefuge.org to express your interest, hear Terebinth’s mission and values, hear a variety of ways to serve, and then to hear the process; the process is dependent on how the volunteer would like to serve (having direct contact with our women entails becoming trauma informed so we equip you for exactly that)!
*Volunteers that serve directly with our residents will be trauma-informed, practice healthy boundaries, complete required training, sign a confidentiality agreement, undergo a background check, and fingerprinting.
Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@terebinthrefuge.org
We have ongoing opportunities to serve in these areas:
From your home ‘pray where you are’:
Administrative; coming into the Terebinth Office/serving with office staff:
Hope and Healing Store:
Handy Person projects at one of our homes or office:
Working directly with residents at one of our homes:
Yes, you can volunteer once in our administrative needs. But because we value relationships and train our volunteers, we do ask that our volunteers serve consistently (weekly, monthly, or quarterly).
For our ongoing volunteers, you must be at least 19 years old. For transportation volunteers, you must be at least 21 years old and hold a valid driver’s license and insurance.
For group activities, including donation organizers, you need to be at least 13 years of age. Those who are under age 18 must always be supervised by an adult.
Yes, our volunteer opportunities can be scheduled during evening hours or on the weekends.
We do not.
No. You bring your interest/skill area, and we will train you to serve alongside our women.
Absolutely. To maintain the safety and security of our residents, staff, and volunteers, a criminal background check is required as well as fingerprinting. Volunteers that serve directly with our residents must be trauma-informed, practice healthy boundaries, complete required training, sign a confidentiality agreement, undergo a background check, and fingerprinting. Terebinth Refuge provides this at no charge to you for the background check, but the cost is $44.00 so we do ask volunteers to consider donating (if they are able) $44.00 to Terebinth so that we do not take money away from programming for the women to cover these costs. The cost (approximately $10.00) of fingerprinting is the volunteer’s responsibility.
Safety and security are top priorities at Terebinth Refuge! We have security cameras, an extensive alarm system, a panic button, as well as fully trained staff that are at the shelter 24 hours a day.
We do have opportunities for groups of people to partner with Terebinth. The best way for groups to serve is organizing and sorting donations, lawn care and clean-up, outside house projects, serving at fundraising events, collecting items from our need’s lists, and helping with our mailings.
If groups would like to lead classes (have direct contact with our women) like facilitating arts and crafts, life skills, exercise class, and such. The leader of that group is to go through our training process. If it is an ongoing class, then we ask that everyone in the group goes through our training process.
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