volunteering
The Women's Resource Center (WRC) has several opportunities for you to volunteer. Our volunteer schedules are very flexible and you may devote as many or as few hours as you wish. Call us at 631-4193 or 631-4171 or stop by the WRC, and we will be more than happy to discuss volunteer opportunities with you.
The Peer Outreach and Education Team:
The Peer Outreach Education Team (POET) is a group of women and men of all races, ethnicities, nationalities, sexual orientations, and ages committed to educating themselves about social privilege and oppression as it relates to themselves and their peers. Through guided training the team learns to understand how oppression and privilege are linked to gender violence and sexual assault. Through the facilitation of dialogue and porgrams, the team is committed to educating peers in the college community about what can be done about gender violence and sexual assault in society at large and within the college community.
Scopes of issues: POET is trained to present and facilitate programs on: healthy relationships, consent, how to be an ally, rethinking gender roles, conflict resolution, sexual assault risk reduction, empowerment, the relationship of the 'isms', and more.
The nuts and bolts of POET
WHO:
Men and women who are dedicated to helping eliminate violence against women.
WHAT:
A program that provides positive solutions to gender violence, challenges socialized gender roles and helps individuals learn the links of oppression, gender violence, and sexual assault.
WHEN:
The team is available to provide programming and facilitate discussions throughout the year. Training is conducted each semester.
WHERE:
Although the home base of POET is the Women's Resource Center, the group is available to present in either on campus or in the community.
WHY?
To make a difference.
HOW?
Apply. To apply, simply respond to the following 6 questions on a separate sheet of paper or incorporate your answers into an essay.
Application
Name, major, e-mail, and phone
1. Why would you like to join POET?
2a. Give an example of how you have been affected by social privilege and oppression in your personal life.
2b. How can you apply that experience to the movement to help eliminate gender violence?
3a. What do you see as the biggest problems affecting women and men in your age group today?
3b. What ideas do you have for addressing those issues?
4a. Describe an example of a time you were in a leadership role or in a situation where you had to speak in front of a group of people.
4b. What were the most rewarding and difficult parts of that situation?
5. If you could create your own program to help eliminate gender violence, sexual assault and violence in general, what would the program look like? Be creative.
6 What else would you like us to know about you? (Talent, experience, etc.)
Volunteers, student interns and service projects
Students who would like to be involved with the center or develop a project within the center may work with the staff to develop a project that is mutually beneficial to both the student and the WRC. Opportunities range from providing office assistance, assisting with program setup, to the development of short and long term educational initiatives.
