General Assistant - Victory MissionAt — Victory Mission
At Victory Mission, our services are available to anyone who is seeking shelter, nutrition, and basic essentials. We serve the unhoused community primarily in The Historic Chinatown district of Old Town Salinas. Victory Mission operates an overnight Men's Shelter 7-days a week, Sober Living Environment Program, Daily distribution of pre-made food bags, Monday - Friday hot dinner, and weekend box dinner distributions.
Service learners are needed to assist in one or more of the following:
- Front desk receptionist - must be crazy good at customer service, message taking, and keeping confidentiality; 2 hrs/ week minimum
- Food service assistance:
- Nightly hot dinners (Mon - Fri)
- Coffee ministry (7:15 a.m. every day)
- Box dinner preparation and distribution
- Cold-cut sandwich preparation
- Social media outreach:
- Generate weekly messages about various programs, offerings, & success stories
- Math Consulting:
- Assist with data gathering and crunching for grants and funding opportunities
- Special Programming:
- Develop and lead a special offering tailored to your talents/skills and the needs of the clients!
- Examples include: financial literacy, budgeting techniques, housekeeping, creative workshops
- Data entry:
- Assist Care/Case Management team by entering data of new clients, search for available resources, etc.
- Grant writing / fundraising:
- Assist with writing descriptions and helping the organization apply for grants and funds.
1-2 service learners per task type
Location:
- 43 Soledad Street, Salinas, CA 93901
Requirements:
- Must be 18 or older
- Pre-Placement Training
- Bilingual Desired
- First Aid Certification (preferred, not required)
- CPR Certification (preferred, not required)
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Students will be working in Salinas Chinatown and interacting directly with vulnerable populations. As such, students will be required to complete training videos and practice how to maintain appropriate boundaries and respond to challenging situations. Clients may come with distressing issues and challenges. Students will have direct supervisors in the area or immediately nearby, from which to get assistance as needed.
SITE LOCATION: The location would be described as a high-crime area.
Students will be working in Salinas Chinatown--a neighborhood with a large population of unhoused residents, where crime has been a problem.
SUPERVISION: Students may be unsupervised less than 25% of the time or the supervisor will be overseeing more than 8 people.
When visiting Chinatown or serving at Victory Mission in-person, service-learning students will always be accompanied by a Victory Mission adult, volunteer, or staff who is aware of security issues and how to deal with them. Students will also have access to emergency phone numbers and on-site staff who can assist with emergencies.
When in Chinatown, service learning students may encounter many types of people, including City staff, community service workers, police, homeless people and families, and at-risk persons. Students are instructed to be polite and respectful to all persons in the neighborhood. Do not take photographs, since some people living on the streets may feel it is very intrusive.
If interested, contact:
Frank Green III, Executive Director
frank@victorymissionsalinas.com
831-253-3267
AND
Dollie Pope, Social Worker
dollie@victorymissionsalinas.com