Opportunities for Volunteering

Cal State Northridge’s Valley Trauma Center is seeking people to staff a 24-hour hotline or counsel sexual assault victims. Volunteers provide victims with support and information at hospitals, police stations or courts, and counsel victims, their families and significant others. Participants must be 18 to apply for training, which begins Feb. 19. For an application or to schedule an interview, call (818) 772-0196.

English as a Second Language/Literacy tutors are needed by the San Fernando Valley Literacy Council. Training classes will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20 and 27 at the United Methodist Church of Sepulveda, 15435 Rayen St., North Hills. Training books cost $25. For more information, call (818) 341-4009.

The Volunteer Center Assistance League of Southern California needs volunteers to work with children at the YMCA West Valley Family Center, 18810 Vanowen St., Reseda. The volunteer center also is seeking people to join Helping Others Together to do volunteer work on weekday evenings or weekends. For more information, call Joan Kagan at (818) 908-5128.

The city of Calabasas’ Volunteer Creek Monitoring Program needs people to collect water samples from Las Virgenes Creek. Once a month, volunteers will test the samples for nitrogen, phosphates, ammonia and other chemicals in five locations along the creek. This monitoring program will be incorporated into larger water-quality initiatives being developed by other cities in the Malibu Creek Watershed. Volunteers will be trained on how to use the monitoring equipment and how to collect water samples. For more information, call Heather Merenda at (818) 878-4242, Ext. 293.