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Family and Community Resources

Family and Community Resources is a non-profit providing services to survivors of trauma, primarily domestic violence. Our multi-lingual services include safety planning, providing support, counseling-both group and individual, legal advocacy, supervised visitation centers, outreach, and community education.

Volunteer Opportunities: We do not offer the opportunity to represent clients. Instead, we provide legal advocacy volunteer opportunities, to help individual domestic violence survivors with legal issues.

  • Safety plan with survivors-both physical and emotional safety planning to cope with stress and challenges of legal system involvement
  • Support survivors in understanding & evaluating potential risks and benefits of various legal options
  • Work with survivor to implement their choices
  • Help survivors access & understand legal resources, including self-help packets
  • Act as a scribe
  • Edit for punctuation and grammar
  • Read court forms or the law out loud to an individual
  • Help individuals fill out protection order or anti-harassment order forms, for FREE
  • Provide general information about the law and legal procedures to members of the general public, for FREE

Listing up-to-date as of April 2024.

  • County(s) of Volunteer Opportunity: Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth
  • Area of law: Family & Juvenile, Domestic Violence
  • Populations Served: Domestic Violence Victims, Low Income, trauma survivors, domestic violence perpetrators, human trafficking survivors
  • Opportunities For: Law Students, Lawyers, Paralegals
  • Malpractice insurance is provided for volunteers: No
  • Training Provided: Yes
  • Training Required: No
  • CLE credit for trainings: No
  • Training / Supervision Comments: Training on domestic violence provided.
  • CLE credit for pro bono: No
  • Mentoring or supervision offered: Yes
  • Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: Yes
  • Other Case Load Requirements: six month commitment preferred
  • Types of projects in need of Pro Bono help: Client counseling (e.g., brief advice), Draft legal documents (e.g., briefs), Legal Research
  • Other Project Types: Prepare legal education materials
  • Volunteers may participate long-distance: No
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