SERVING NEW YORK'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER & HIV-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
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Become an AVP Volunteer
AVP is always in need of volunteers, for special events, as well as for longer-term participation in our various programs. If you are interested, simply fill out our Volunteer Information Form.
Volunteer Hotline Trainings in 2010
Our next 30-hour training schedule is as follows:
- Saturday, January 16th, 10am-5:30pm
- Sunday, January 17th, 10am-5:30pm
- Wednesday, January 20th, 6pm-9pm
- Wednesday, January 27th, 6pm-9pm
- Wednesday, February 3rd 6pm-9pm
- Saturday, February 6th 10am-5:30pm
All classes are held at the Anti-Violence Project 240 West 35th Street, Suite 200 between 7th and 8th Avenues.
Upon successful completion, volunteers will be New York State Department of Health Certified Rape Crisis Counselors. We ask that volunteers make a year-long commitment to volunteer with AVP once a month, if possible. For more information, please contact Hope Campbell, Community Organizing and Public Advocacy Administrative Assistant/Volunteer Recruiter, at 212-714-1184 x19 or hcampbell@avp.org.
Training Topics Include:
- Violence in L/G/B/T Community
- Police and the Criminal Justice System
- Crisis intervention
- Domestic Violence
- Bias and Pick up Crimes
- Rape and Sexual Assault
- Transgender Related Violence
- HIV - Related Violence
- Suicide
If you are interested in becoming an AVP volunteer or participating in the Volunteer Hotline Training, please download and complete our Volunteer Information form, available as a Microsoft Word document or as an Acrobat PDF file. Click your desired format, fill out the form and email, mail or fax it back to AVP.
Volunteer Information Form:
Word format [.doc] | Acrobat format [.pdf]
For more information regarding the Volunteer Hotline Training, please contact Hope Campbell, Community Organizing and Public Advocacy Administrative Assistant/Volunteer Recruiter, at 212-714-1184 x19 or hcampbell@avp.org.
If you are interested in joining AVP's Volunteer Team, please contact Hope Campbell, Community Organizing and Public Advocacy Administrative Assistant/Volunteer Recruiter, at 212-714-1184 x19 or hcampbell@avp.org. Volunteer Opportunities Include:
- Pride Month Plannning
- Outreach
- Safe Bar Project
- Library Project
- Administrative Volunteering
- Data entry
- Research
- Youth Initiative