Volunteer Opportunities

Are you ever the one who help your friends resolve their differences or how about the family member who keeps the peace?  If so, you have the skills to be a mediator.  A mediator is a neutral third party that helps people having a conflict talk abot their problems so a solution can be reached.  Oftentimes, people in a conflict are so emotionally riled up they can't think straight.  A mediator helps people keep calm and see the other point of view.

APADRC needs people who are willing to volunteer as mediators.  Because we serve such a diverse clientele, having language capacity in Spanish and Asian languages as well as in English is useful.  Volunteers must first go throgh 25 hours of training, after which they will receive some supervision before mediating conflicts on their own or co-mediating conflicts with an APADRC staff member.  The next training takes place in early January, so please call EunJi Bang for more information at (213) 250-8190 x14 or email her at eunji.bang@apadrc.org.

Besides mediation volunteers, APADRC also needs volunteers for development (fundraising), information technology (Web site, computers) and marketing (media).  Please call APADRC and speak with EunJi if you are interested in volunteering for any of these projects.