Napa Emergency Women's Services

The next NEWS domestic violence counselor training begins February 2009! This is an exciting and powerful way for you to return to the grass roots of what started NEWS -- volunteer activism. For over 25 years, Napa Emergency Women's Services has been assisting victims of domestic violence and their children in Napa County -- and you can be a part of that effort!

Many of our volunteer counselors are very interested in working in domestic violence immediate response. Developing and implementing this kind of "intervention" type of outreach has always been one of the ideal goals of NEWS' staff in order to really broaden our services to victims of domestic violence in Napa County .

NEWS Volunteer Policy

A 40-hr training is offered to community members interested in providing volunteer services to our clients. Participants are chosen based on their ability to be open-minded, non-judgmental, good listeners, caring, and their emotional preparedness to work with women and children in crisis. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, language, or disability. To fully understand and complete the training, participants must have an advanced conversational level in English. To have more options to meet the needs of the community we encourage bilingual individuals to apply.

All Training Participants commit to providing direct services to clients for six months and must be fingerprinted.

All volunteers are encouraged to take the training and provide crisis support based on the comfort of the client, which comes first.

For those who would like to work directly with clients, the mandatory training is required. However, if you would like to volunteer in other ways, we have some great ideas for you. Our doors are open to your suggestions and inspirations! Call us -- our business office number is (707) 252-3687.

In either case, we are very interested in hearing from you -- just use the Contact Us portion of the website to say hello and send us your name, current mailing address, email and telephone number -- and be sure to include the type of program you are most interested in volunteering for. We appreciate your enthusiasm!