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Volunteer News!
October 19, 2018
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Dear CRC Volunteer,
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Community Resource Center fights homelessness, hunger, and domestic violence in our community.
As volunteers, you are an integral part of our mission. Every volunteer role makes a difference. Thank you!
Part of creating a safe space for all of our participants is confidentiality. Please see below a note from our Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Department:
Carol’s House, our Domestic Violence Emergency Shelter, provides a safe place for people who are or may be in danger of abuse. Domestic Violence Shelters are also known as “safe houses.” One the key factors in keeping the residents’ safe in Carol’s House is that it is located in a secret or undisclosed location. When shelters maintain a confidential location, both Federal and California laws protect that confidentiality. Further, agencies who receive federal funds, including CRC, could risk losing funding if the location of the shelter is disclosed.
Carol’s House has been in operation for over 30 years. Hundreds of people have lived there and many more people have either been employed by or volunteered with CRC and have learned of the shelter location. That does not mean that it is “common knowledge” or should be treated as such. Sometimes, Carol’s House residents themselves may disclose the location to CRC volunteers assuming they already have that knowledge. Every effort is made to ensure that the location of the shelter is only disclosed to those who have a need to know and that those who do know of the location agree to keep that information confidential.
Your cooperation in protecting the safety of Carol’s House residents is greatly appreciated!
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Please join us in honoring Domestic Violence Awareness Month and holding the vision of a community free of violence.
You are also invited to an
Introduction to Domestic Violence Training
on Friday, October 26 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at Seacoast Community Church. This training is specifically for CRC staff and volunteers who want to learn more about domestic violence prevention and intervention. Please contact
Jani Sepanik, our Education and Prevention Coordinator, for more information.
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Current Volunteer Opportunities
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- Resale Stores: Help sort clothing, organize the store and more. Or help create a fun window display at one of our stores!
- Painting our Transitional Housing: We are looking for a group to be “on-call” to paint our transitional housing when families move out. Requirements: Signed Volunteer Waiver and Confidentiality Agreement and attention to detail.
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We are excited to serve 6,000 people this year with food, coats, blankets and toys at our 36th Annual Holiday Baskets!
Holiday Baskets
happens with a team of 1,500 volunteers, and many of you have participated in the past. Thank you! Please note our scheduling timeline below:
October 1 - 22:
Large group scheduling -
Apply here
October 23: Individual application will be available online for self-scheduling
Get involved or Spread the word!
- Host a Donation Drive: Check out our Donation Drives Toolkit for all the tools you need to host a successful drives to collect much-needed Holiday Baskets items. Please contact Pat Moore for more information.
- Become a Sponsor: Help ensure that every family receives a complete Holiday Basket, filled with food, warm clothing and gifts! We have a variety of sponsorship opportunities for both our Holiday Baskets Program and Jingle & Mingle preview event. To learn more, please visit our sponsorship page or contact Lauren Montague at development@crcncc.org or (760) 230-6538.
- Save the Date for Jingle & Mingle: Join us for a festive preview party in support of Holiday Baskets, taking place on Tuesday, December 11 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Holiday Baskets volunteers will get a special discount code. More information to follow! See our 2017 event photos.
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Volunteer at EXPOSURE Skate
November 3 & 4, 2018 at the Encinitas Community Park
EXPOSURE is a valuable supporter of CRC and partner in fighting domestic violence in our community. Check out their women's skateboarding competition on November 3 and 4, a fundraiser for CRC's domestic violence shelter. The event will feature 150+ female skaters, autograph signings, learn-to-skate clinics, games and a vendor village.
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VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH: YOLANDA HIGGINS
Congratulations to
Yolanda Higgins
, the volunteer lead for the HB Registration Team. From Shakira, her staff supervisor: “Yolanda is my 'right hand.' She has been volunteering three days a week since August. I was out on medical leave and she started right after I returned. She volunteered to train volunteers and community partners so that I didn’t have to talk too much (due to my medical recovery). She also created training materials. With Yolanda’s help, this has been the best registration process we have had in my three years managing it."
Thank you, Yolanda, for bringing joy and hope to those in need this holiday season!
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Holiday Baskets Registration Team
Our Holiday Baskets Registration Team is the first face of Holiday Baskets! The team of 12 all received special training and background checks. Volunteer shifts were five days a week at our office. This team faithfully makes themselves available to sign up families and individuals for the Holiday Baskets Program. With their help, registration has closed for Holiday Baskets, with over 1,500 families registered. CRC wants to say “THANK YOU” to the HB Registration Team for their warm smiles, computer savvy, and selfless service to families in our community.
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Sunday FUNday Volunteers
Sunday, October 14th was a big day at our 2nd Street office!
St. Mark Church
sent a group of more than 20 volunteers of all ages for a work day! They washed windows, power washed the front of the building and the breezeway, pulled weeds and trimmed trees in the back alley, and checked expiration dates on food on the pantry shelves. Thank you St. Mark for your generous donation of time and “elbow grease!" Also on Sunday, we had our
Produce Good
delivery from the Leucadia Farmer’s market. A few times a month, CRC receives up to 900 pounds of beautiful, fresh produce donated from local farmers. Volunteers show up faithfully on Sundays to unload the produce into our Food Center. That same day,
Seacoast Church
came by with backpacks for teens, filled with the types of supplies that older kids and adults can use.
Volunteers play many roles here at CRC and we are grateful!
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Get Your CRC Swag - Available for 1 more month!
Want to represent CRC in our community with some cool CRC “Swag?” We are currently making CRC shirts available to our volunteers at cost for a limited time, through October 15. If you would like to purchase a CRC shirt, please
email Sara Rosenbaum with your size*, and send a check for $5.75 (S-XL) or $7.75 (XXL) to CRC, 650 2nd Street Encinitas CA 92024 or bring it by our front desk – please include in the memo line that it is for a CRC shirt.
*If we do not have your size available, we will add your name to a waitlist and will order your size with the next shirt order.
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Volunteer Connections
We are applying for grants with local businesses and some of these companies require an employee referral before we are allowed to apply.
If you or someone you know works for Vons, Albertsons or Northrup Grumman and are willing to refer us, please email Carol Zeenkov at
czeenkov@crcncc.org.
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Stories of volunteering? Send them our way!
We would love to share encouragement to the CRC volunteer team via this newsletter about ways we are
all
making a difference. Please e-mail stories to
Sara
Rosenbaum at
srosenbaum@crcncc.org
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