Volunteer Opportunities with Family of Woodstock

HOTLINE TRAINING
Family of Woodstock’s 34 hour volunteer is offered twice a year. Come and learn how to use your skills for listening and compassion for the well being of yourselves and your community. It’s a fun place to volunteer and we are currently in need of more help. For more information call 845 338-2370, e-mail scarroll@fowinc.org, or stop by 16 Rock City Road in Woodstock to fill out an application.

TEXT CRISIS COUNSELING
Family is excited to be introducing text crisis counseling to the services offered by our hotlines, and we are looking for text-savvy volunteers to help out! To participate, you will need to take the Hotline Training. Additional trainings will be offered for those interested in being part of our text crisis counseling team. For more information call 845 338 – 2370, e-mail tcooper@fowinc.org, or stop by 16 Rock City Road in Woodstock.

ELLENVILLE FOOD PICKUPS
Do you have a pickup truck or van, are you able to make a weekly commitment to Family, and the ability to lift boxes of food? If so, we could use your help picking up food donations in Ellenville, delivering them to Family of Ellenville sorting and stocking them in our food pantry.

Perks
Community Service Hours
Volunteer as a family or with friends
Meet new people
Make a huge difference in someone’s life

Skills Needed (not all at once required)
Friendly and outgoing
Ability to lift boxes of food
Sorting and stocking pantry shelves
A Truck or Van! (that’s a bonus)

Interested in helping FAMILY with Food Pickups?
Call Dominic @845-647-2443
or email foeh@fowinc.org

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FAMILY OF NEW PALTZ FREE STORE
We at Family struggle with the free clothing policy. There is a small percentage of people who take advantage and take more clothing than they could use. At this point the clothing room is open to the public all the hours that Family is open. We think it would better serve our consumers if we had set hours for the clothing room and volunteers to oversee the room, which would include sorting the incoming clothing and monitoring the people using the room. We instituted a one bag policy for clothing, but this has been mostly disregarded as the hotline/front desk volunteers are usually so busy they cannot pay attention to people in the clothing room. We are looking for people who have a few hours a week to help us with the clothing room. The sad part of all of this is when we have an emergency situation it is at times hard to help. Please call 255-7957 if you would like to join our helping family.

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HELP! (IN OUR KINGSTON OFFICE)
FAMILY is in need of volunteers to assist with reception at our Administrative Offices at 39 John Street in Kingston, greeting walk-in clients during our staff-person’s lunch break, and Wednesday mornings during case conference. If you are available one or more days a week from 12-1:30pm, or Wednesdays 10am-1:30pm, and would like to help out, please contact Beth at 331-7080 x157 or email volunteers@familyofwoodstockinc.org

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HELP! (IN OUR WOODSTOCK OFFICE)

FAMILY staff always need help getting information filed on the computer, creating data bases, making copies and stuffing envelopes for mailings. If you like office work, we could use some of your time. If you have any graphics skills that would be a plus!

Perks
Community Service Credits
Know that you are improving our efficiency
Enable counseling staff to do what they do best

Skills needed
Good with computers
Well organized
Follow directions
Graphic Design experience

Interested in helping at FAMILY’s Woodstock Office?
Call Sue or Tamara @ 845-679-2485
or email fowh@fowinc.org

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EVENTS TEAM FUN!
One of the ways FAMILY supports its services is by hosting and working at fun events. Sign up for any of our terrific events that meet your schedule-and enjoy the event! Help staff a booth at concerts and community events or park cars at large outdoor venues. You can sell tickets for our Quackstock Rubber Duck Race, or our annual Big $$$ Raffle. Plenty of opportunities!

Perks
Free Admission to the Event
Work with friends and family members (we love your teens!)
Earn Community Service Credits
Know that you are helping people in need

Skills Needed
Friendly and outgoing
Able to follow instructions

Interested in our Events Team?
Call Sue or Tamara @ 845- 679-2485
or email fowh@fowinc.org

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FOOD, FOOD, FOOD!!!
Thinking of volunteering but don’t want to make a weekly commitment? Pick a Food Drive! FAMILY has monthly food pick-ups, scheduled food drives at Hurley Ridge Market, the annual Postal Food Drive, Yom Kippur Food Drive and MORE!

Last year FAMILY’s Woodstock Food Pantry fed more than 1,000 families

Perks
Community Service Hours
Volunteer as a family or with friends
Meet new people
Make a huge difference in someone’s life

Skills Needed (not all at once required)
Friendly and outgoing
Ability to lift boxes of food
Sorting and stocking pantry shelves
A Truck! (that’s a bonus)

Interested in helping FAMILY’s Food Pantry?
Call Sue or Tamara @845-679-2485

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SHOP and SELL ON EBAY!
FAMILY is selling on eBay! We often receive unusual donations which can attract buyers online. Help us build a regular income stream to support our services. If you would like to be one of our eBay sellers, we’d love to have you! We’ll provide the brief training you will need.

Perks
Pick items you are excited to sell
Work from home if you like
Earn Community Service Credits
Feel the GOOD selling for FAMILY

Skills needed
Comfortable using a computer online
Able to write enticing ads for our items
Good organization and follow
Able to make a 6 month commitment

Interested in becoming an EBAY SELLER?
Call Sue or Tamara @ 845-679-2485
or email fowh@fowinc.org