About the role
Looking for a fun, rewarding opportunity where you can share your time with others and make a difference? Join our Care-A-Van family! Catholic Social Services is looking for volunteers to support our Care-A-Van Program by assisting with mobile outreach services that provide food, essential supplies, and compassionate support to individuals experiencing homelessness.
Responsibilities:
- Support face to face engagement with individuals experiencing homelessness by providing a welcoming, respectful, and non-judgmental presence.
- Attend and participate in mandatory Care-A-Van volunteer training sessions
- Support scheduled Care-A-Van outreach activities by accompanying staff in the van following staff guidance at all times.
- Assist staff by handing out food, water, hygiene items, and seasonal supplies.
- Use a relationship based and trauma informed approach when interacting with community members, recognizing diverse lived experiences and personal boundaries.
- Help organize, receive, sort, and restock donations, including food, clothing, hygiene items, and seasonal supplies
Desired Skills/Abilities:
- Good interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Effective communication and listening skills
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Mature, caring and non-judgmental attitude
- Respectful of people from diverse cultures, economic and educational backgrounds, sexual orientations, and life circumstances
- Ability to maintain and model healthy, appropriate personal boundaries
Schedule:
Flexible, weekdays, 9 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 4 pm.
Reference letters are available upon request after 25 hours of service.
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About Catholic Social Services
For nearly 60 years, Catholic Social Services has been providing help to the most vulnerable members of our community. Today, we work in three priority areas, serving individuals with disabilities, children and families, and newcomers to Canada.
In 2018 alone, we served more than 20,000 vulnerable Albertan's through 90 programs, in 11 communities across Central Alberta.
A sample of the work we do includes:
- Providing counselling and other intervention services for families in crisis;
- Facilitating kinship and foster care for vulnerable children;
- Supporting adults and youth with disabilities;
- Developing and delivering residential care programs for vulnerable individuals, including youth, those with chronic illness, and those challenged by addictions;
- Providing shelter for women and children escaping family violence;
- Assisting newcomers to Canada with ongoing settlement supports.
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About the role
Looking for a fun, rewarding opportunity where you can share your time with others and make a difference? Join our Care-A-Van family! Catholic Social Services is looking for volunteers to support our Care-A-Van Program by assisting with mobile outreach services that provide food, essential supplies, and compassionate support to individuals experiencing homelessness.
Responsibilities:
- Support face to face engagement with individuals experiencing homelessness by providing a welcoming, respectful, and non-judgmental presence.
- Attend and participate in mandatory Care-A-Van volunteer training sessions
- Support scheduled Care-A-Van outreach activities by accompanying staff in the van following staff guidance at all times.
- Assist staff by handing out food, water, hygiene items, and seasonal supplies.
- Use a relationship based and trauma informed approach when interacting with community members, recognizing diverse lived experiences and personal boundaries.
- Help organize, receive, sort, and restock donations, including food, clothing, hygiene items, and seasonal supplies
Desired Skills/Abilities:
- Good interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Effective communication and listening skills
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Mature, caring and non-judgmental attitude
- Respectful of people from diverse cultures, economic and educational backgrounds, sexual orientations, and life circumstances
- Ability to maintain and model healthy, appropriate personal boundaries
Schedule:
Flexible, weekdays, 9 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 4 pm.
Reference letters are available upon request after 25 hours of service.
Not the right fit? Search for Care jobs in Edmonton, AB
About Catholic Social Services
For nearly 60 years, Catholic Social Services has been providing help to the most vulnerable members of our community. Today, we work in three priority areas, serving individuals with disabilities, children and families, and newcomers to Canada.
In 2018 alone, we served more than 20,000 vulnerable Albertan's through 90 programs, in 11 communities across Central Alberta.
A sample of the work we do includes:
- Providing counselling and other intervention services for families in crisis;
- Facilitating kinship and foster care for vulnerable children;
- Supporting adults and youth with disabilities;
- Developing and delivering residential care programs for vulnerable individuals, including youth, those with chronic illness, and those challenged by addictions;
- Providing shelter for women and children escaping family violence;
- Assisting newcomers to Canada with ongoing settlement supports.