ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work closely with volunteer coordinator and MADD Colorado to receive cases, support and training
- Provide effective and timely assistance to victims/survivors of impaired driving who contact MADD for services
- Identify victims/survivors of impaired driving crashes by way of newspaper articles, police reports or other means. Send a MADD We Care Card to these victims/survivors as a primary means of contact
- Assess victims/survivors’ needs for emotional support, information and referrals, implementing beneficial interventions based upon the assessment of needs
- Provide both on-going risk management and emotional support to maintain a current assessment of victims/survivors’ coping and need for further referrals
- Establish and utilize a network of community partners in the criminal justice, legal, medical and social service systems to facilitate assistance for victims/survivors
- Collect and maintain community resource information, sharing this information with victims/survivors and other victim advocates
- Accompany victims/survivors to justice proceedings as deemed appropriate (average of once per month)
- Provide advocacy to victims/survivors by assisting in the protection of victims/survivors’ rights, facilitating in the exercising of rights and providing education about the criminal and civil justice processes
- Maintain accurate case records, statistical information and grant reports according to MADD and grant guidelines; and turn in case notes to the MADD Colorado Victim Services Department weekly
- Assist in the development, facilitation and implementation of appropriate victim/survivor programs
- Sensitivity to the needs of victims/survivors of impaired driving
- Ethical behavior and respect for confidentiality
- Ability to communicate effectively, set boundaries and organize reasonable communication and interaction plans with victims/survivors
- Online Victim Assistance training
- Completion of the Beginning Victim Assistance Training Institute (April 29-30, Denver, CO)
- Ongoing training provided, as necessary
- Age 18 or older
- Background check
- One-year commitment
- Monthly check-in with MADD Colorado’s Victim Services Department
- Reliable transportation
Contact information:
Ilana Kurtzig, Programs Specialist, 303.425.5902 or ilana.kurtzig@madd.org