Volunteer

ACCESS offers many ways to get involved. The Reproductive Justice in Action Program will enable individuals interested in volunteering with ACCESS—through the tracks mentioned below—to learn about reproductive justice issues in California and about the needs and situations of the caller-partners we work with through our Healthline. Members of our RJ In Action Program will become the next generation of reproductive justice leaders as volunteers who provide logistical support to women seeking abortion care, as Healthline patient advocates, as spokespeople, and as long-term activists for reproductive justice.

 

 

Currently there are three volunteer tracks: 

 

Healthline:

Volunteers who answer calls to our peer-based hotlines and provide reproductive health information, referrals, advocacy and peer-counseling and help organize transportation and funding assistance for our caller-partners.

 

Practical Support Network:

Volunteers who help women obtain safe, quality abortion services by providing direct assistance – rides, overnight housing, child care, translation, etc. – to help women physically make it to their appointments.

 

Advocacy Activists:

Volunteers who will work with the Program and Policy Director to research, organize, rally, and effect actions on timely reproductive and sexual health rights issues.

 

You must be able to attend our one day training from 9am-5pm at our office in Oakland. Further descriptions of the tracks and expectations are specified in the application: RJAP application.doc