Our Mission:
Transforming lives by providing empowerment, supportive services, education, hope, and the tools to build a better life.
Volunteer to Make a Difference
Interested in working to help support women, survivors of domestic violence, and those struggling with housing?
Get started today! Download our volunteer application and return it to us by email at WHC@womenshelpcenter.org or by mail to 809 Napoleon Street, Johnstown PA 15901.
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CLICK HERE to download the volunteer application.
Volunteers can help victims restore personal power, enhance their self-esteem, and assist them and their children while they move into the position of survivors. We need you to help provide supportive counseling, advocacy, accompaniment, and follow-up services. If you are looking for a challenging volunteer experience that will help you grow, and help others to live violence free, NOW IS THE TIME TO START.
We provide a combination of virtual and in-person training for volunteers who have direct client contact. The training is essential to ensure that services are comprehensive, trauma-informed, empowering, and effective.
Ways to Volunteer
Shelter Volunteers
We are ALWAYS looking for volunteers to help with regular building maintenance. If you would be willing to pull weeds, sweep, do general lawncare, help sort donations, or general organizing and simple cleaning please don't hesitate to call.
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Volunteer Support Staff
Monitor the 24-hour hotline and the shelter facility, provide individual and group counseling services to adult victims of domestic violence, help victims to develop and work toward their individualized goal plans, conduct shelter intake and exit interviews, provide accompaniment services, emergency transportation and follow-up work.
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Children's Program Volunteers
Dedicate their efforts to children involved with the Center in a counseling capacity and those who reside within the temporary emergency shelter. Services to children include individual and group counseling, safety planning, social, interactive, and recreational activities, childcare, and participation in community based youth activities.
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Prevention Education Volunteers
Serve by educating the community on domestic violence and violence prevention techniques. Target audiences include civic, service and religious groups; and the systems that impact victims, including social services, the criminal justice system, law enforcement, medical professionals, clergy, child protective services, educators and students.
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Special Events Volunteers
Focus on the fundraising activities of the program. Four major fundraising events and several smaller events are sponsored each year. In light of state and federal budget constraints, the program relies heavily upon the proceeds of these events, and is required by state contract to not only raise, but to expend, 20% of its annual allocation on provision of domestic violence services.