What Is It? WAVE is seeking additional volunteers for our hotline. Training is provided, no experience necessary. Our 24 hour line is intended as a support line. Some calls may be someone having a time of stress that they just need to talk through. We are a supportive ear to listen. We also provide crisis intervention, information, referrals, and support to sexual assault survivors after hours. This may be in-person support during forensic exams or while making a police repo

What Is It? WAVE is hoping to find some community members whom we would be able to reach out to to watch children. You volunteering your time allows parents to attend WAVE support groups, court proceedings, and other WAVE events. Childcare is often a barrier for parents experiencing power based violence when they need address parts of these types of situations that are not child appropriate. Training Provided Volunteers would always have a co-sitter while they were watching t

What Is It? Utilize a special skill (art, music, yoga, cooking, etc) to provide education and support to survivors or a class open to the general public. The special skill events will be co-facilitated by a staff member of WAVE. An example of this would be Wellness Practice which hosts a new activity every Saturday and is free for anyone on Petersburg. Training Provided While these activities are less intensive than the Peer Support Advocate position we would still like to pr

What Is It? We would like to have a list of volunteers whom we can reach out to when we have an upcoming event. Examples of this could be if we need extra hands at a Let Me Run race, help running Art by the Inch, or volunteers at the Health Fair. Training Provided While these activities are less intensive than the Peer Support Advocate position we would still like to provide some training. It's possible that at these events there could some questions about WAVE, the issues of

CHAPTER 1—Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Often, when something traumatic occurs in a person’s life, it seems to get locked into our memory as images, sounds, thoughts, body sensations, and emotions connected with the event. It continues to be triggered whenever a reminder, or “triggering” event, occurs in the person’s daily life. This locked-in memory can be the basis for a lot of emotional and/or physical discomfort. Negative emotions often experienced