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RSVP Station Highlight
Each month we will be featuring one of the nonprofits that partners with the Volunteer Fox Cities RSVP program.
February Station: Reach Counseling Services, Appleton
Location: 400 N Richmond Street, Appleton
About
Mission: To heal lives and transform communities.
Reach Counseling is a sexual assault service provider for children and adults that offers culturally responsive outreach, prevention education, victim advocacy, trauma counseling, and sex offender treatment. Reach envisions a socially just community that prioritizes and empowers healing for all impacted by sexual violence.
Want to Help?
Reach Counseling provides crisis intervention and emotional support 24/7 to survivors of sexual abuse and their friends/family with the help of Volunteer Advocates. Volunteer Advocates are on call nights, weekends, and holidays when the Reach office is closed.
Volunteer Advocates are trained to provide emotional support, crisis intervention, information and resources to survivors of sexual abuse and assault in Winnebago County. Advocates provide these services over the phone or in person at a local hospital. Advocates work alongside medical and legal professionals to ensure survivors are supported while navigating these processes, reducing further trauma and re-victimization while tending to a survivor’s emotional needs.
Advocates must have a driver's license, car insurance and vehicle while on call. Advocates take calls through their own phones and never have to be at the Reach office while on call. Advocates must be aware they will hear details of sexual abuse and assault and should know how hearing these stories will impact them. Advocates are in charge of how many and which shifts they take and the schedule is very flexible.
This opportunity may be a good fit for former nurses, educators, social workers and therapists.
Visit the Reach Counseling Services website HERE.
Reach out to Elle if you would like to volunteer with Reach Counseling Services.
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