Family and Community Resources
- To Volunteer, Contact:
- Organization Type: Community Services
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Location:
18 Newton StreetBrockton, MA 02301
- Phone: 508-583-6498
- Website: https://www.fcr-ma.org/get-involved
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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