Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (Cambridge) – Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning November 3, 2008
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Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC), the second oldest rape crisis center in the U.S., has been highly visible locally and nationally in the fight against violence against sexual violence. First initiated as a grassroots, activist endeavor, the organization provides hotline crisis counseling, adolescent and family services, support groups, medical advocacy and legal advocacy. BARCC also provides violence prevention education workshops for schools, community groups, teen centers, and businesses throughout the Greater Boston area. BARCC provides free services to survivors of rape and sexual assault, their friends and family, regardless of sex, gender, race, physical/developmental disabilities, income, ethnicity, class, age, religion, or sexual orientation.
Internship Description:
The intern with BARCC will work in one of the three following areas:
Hotline Counselors: Hotline volunteers provide crisis counseling over the telephone for survivors and their significant others. They often also provide resources and referrals to callers.
- The Hotline is available to callers 24 hours a day
- Volunteers sign up for one shift per week; shifts are about 5 hours long
- Volunteers must have access to either a landline or cell phone in a quiet, private area in order to receive calls
Medical Advocacy program:
Medical advocates help survivors by meeting them at the hospital following a sexual assault. Advocates provide as much support and information as is needed by the survivor and any significant others who may also be there.
- The Medical Advocacy program is available 24 hours a day
- Volunteers sign up for one shift per week; shifts are between 4-6 hours long
- A valid driver’s license or access to a car is not necessary; all partner hospitals are T-accessible
- Volunteers must be able to go to a partner hospital within 45 minutes of receiving a call or page
Community Awareness & Prevention Services program (CAPS):
CAPS members conduct workshops, professional trainings, clothesline project displays as well as informational tables at health and education fairs. Audiences vary and include middle and high schools, colleges, universities, community groups, shelters, conferences and various service providers. They also identify a community that they are a part of and do community organizing around prevention of sexual violence in this community.
- Presentation times range from 1-3 hours on average
- A valid driver’s license and/or access to a car is helpful but not necessary
- Presentations include rape and sexual assault awareness and prevention, sexual harassment, bystander intervention, first responder trainings, and healthy sexuality.
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