Volunteering to assist with horse care involves: turning out horses (bringing horses to outdoor paddocks), horse training & conditioning, grooming & tacking for a lesson, mucking stalls, cleaning tack, grooming arenas & paddocks, gardening, and landscaping.
Volunteers assisting directly with the therapy program are trained to side walk, lead, and assist before, during, and after riding sessions. Experience with horses is not required.
Volunteering to assist in the office involves organizing files, assembling mailing packets, and making copies & collating.
Volunteering to assist with publicity can be done in the barn office or in your own home and involves: writing & sending press releases, writing feature articles, photography & video recording, updating info for our website, finding sponsors for riders, making a scrapbook/picture album, or collating responses to marketing.
Support and provide resources to survivors in the emergency room at Lowell General Hospital. This position requires our 40 hour Sexual Assault Advocate Training.
Support and provide resources to survivors looking for legal support; advocacy in court rooms, accompaniment to the police station, restraining order support, etc. This position requires our 40 hour Sexual Assault Advocate Training.
HealingCorps is a volunteer team of crisis intervention advocates who provide support to survivors of sexual assault and raise awareness about all forms of oppression and violence prevention.
Support and provide resources to survivors, their loved ones, and professionals through our 24/7 crisis intervention hotline (remote position). This position requires our 40 hour Sexual Assault Advocate Training.
Students may be able to complete their required Community Service hours in the Food Pantry or Thrift Shop. Any student under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent, teacher or mentor while they are completing their service.
Help sort through donated clothing and other items, shelve and hang clothing, freshen and shelve household items, and help with pricing too! We need volunteers at least 3 hours per day, one day per week. Any student under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent, teacher or mentor.