Becoming a volunteer
Would you like to volunteer for a better society? Join the Family Action Centre Team and together we can build a great community. The strength of volunteering is the freedom to choose.
At The Family Action Centre you can become a volunteer who:
- Supports young children and families through the Home-Start Program. Home-Start prepares volunteers, who are parents themselves, through a training program over 10 weeks, (one day per week) to visit families with young children (0-5 years).
- Our SNUG program supports rural/remote families with a disabled child through residential camps; download a copy of the SNUG volunteer description here.
Benefits you will receive as a volunteer:
- meet new people and form new social networks
- learn about community resources
- learn new skills
- gain self-esteem and confidence
- enhance the community you live in
- receive training to become a bequest officer
Family Action Centre volunteer policy
The Family Action Centre believes that volunteers should receive at least as much as they give, that volunteering should be a rewarding process with appropriate training and support provided. As a volunteer of the Family Action Centre you will be regarded as part of our team and expected to abide by the Principles and Practices which guide our organisation.
Our commitment to you, the volunteer, is to value the work that you do and acknowledge the legitimate contribution that volunteering makes to a civil society.
Screening process
Volunteers who work with families and children are requested to:
- participate in an interview with a Family Action Centre staff member
- sign a Statutory Declaration
- complete a training course
- supply two references
- be willing to undergo a security check
Homestart and SNUG program
Please be advised that the Family Action Centre will not be calling for volunteers for Homestart or SNUG volunteers in 2012 until further notice.
The Family Action Centre
p 02 4921 6858 f 02 4921 7711 e family@newcastle.edu.au
