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Are you ready to be a force for good in your community?

Join our diverse team of volunteers at DCGT where you’ll find a variety of meaningful opportunities waiting for you! Whether you’re passionate about providing crucial support on our distress lines, reaching out to underserved communities through our outbound call programs, offering compassionate grief support to those in need, or getting involved in fundraising initiatives to sustain and expand our vital services, there’s a role for you here. Each opportunity offers its own unique rewards, from fostering connections in the community to honing valuable skills in empathy and support.

Join us today and discover the power of volunteering to create positive change in the world, one opportunity at a time!

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Benefits of Volunteering

  • Personal satisfaction of knowing you are making a difference in the community
  • Preparation for careers such as social work, psychology, community outreach, emergency services etc.
  • Reference letter (upon fulfilment of one-year commitment)
  • Enhanced self-growth
  • Extensive training
  • Learning new information about social issues
  • Increased knowledge of community resources
  • Opportunity to volunteer in an organization where diversity is welcomed and celebrated

Characteristics of Volunteers

  • Reliability, responsible individuals to fulfill shift commitments
  • A kind and caring heart, patience, empathy, and a desire 
    to help those who are struggling in the community
  • Excellent communication and listening skills
  • Ability to build rapport and accepting of diverse points of view
  • Capacity to remain calm and effective in challenging situations

Our Positions

Overview

  • Provide immediate and confidential distress and/or crisis support 24/7, 365 days per year
  • Support local helpline and 988 Suicide Crisis National line


Additional Skills/Requirements

  • Able to remain calm in unpredictable and intense situations


Commitment

  • 12 hours/month (144 hours/year)
  • 6 hours of day shifts + 6 hours of overnight shifts
  • Shifts are 3-6 hours


Benefits of Volunteering in Program

  • Great experience for future career working in emergency response (fire, police, EMS), shelters, outreach centres, SW, SSW

Overview

  • Immediate and confidential distress and/or crisis support through chat and text only
  • DCGT + 988 line policies and procedures


Additional Skills/Requirements

  • Able to remain calm in unpredictable and intense situations


Commitment

  • 4 hours/week (208 hours/year)
  • Available to complete shifts from 4pm-1am


Benefits of Volunteering in Program

  • Great experience for future career working in emergency response (fire, police, EMS), shelters, outreach centres, SW, SSW

Overview

  • Immediate and confidential distress and/or crisis support through chat and text only
  • DCGT + 988 line policies and procedures


Additional Skills/Requirements

  • Able to remain calm in unpredictable and intense situations


Commitment

  • 4 hours/week (208 hours/year)
  • Available to complete shifts from 4pm-1am


Benefits of Volunteering in Program

  • Great experience for future career working in emergency response (fire, police, EMS), shelters, outreach centres, SW, SSW

Become A Volunteer

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