INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women needs volunteer crisis-intervention counselors and community educators. Information: (213) 955-9090.
* Family Stress Center in North Hills needs volunteers to work with abused children in play therapy groups under the supervision of a staff therapist. A one-year commitment of a weekly three-hour shift in the afternoons or early evenings is required. Information: Diane Montano, (818) 993-9311, Ext. 319.
* Starlight Children’s Foundation’s Los Angeles office needs Spanish-speaking volunteers for its wish program, which grants wishes to seriously ill children. Information: Nicole Reynolds, (310) 286-0271, Ext. 118.
* Center for Individual and Family Counseling in North Hollywood needs volunteers to answer the phone, set appointments, run errands, assemble information packets, file, fax and copy. Volunteers must have a car. Information: (818) 761-2227.
* A Window Between Worlds, a Pacific Palisades group dedicated to using art to help end domestic violence, needs volunteers to assist in sewing children’s art projects and to perform clerical duties. Information: (310) 396-0317.
* Free Arts for Abused Children needs volunteers to interact with children through art therapy activities at emergency shelters and outpatient facilities in the South Bay. Information: Volunteer Center, South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach, (310) 212-5009.
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