Community Involvement

Volunteers are vital to Life Span's 24-hour crisis line service. They provide around-the-clock supportive listening, option exploring and referrals to victims of domestic violence. They are often the first contact a caller has with Life Span. We provide 40 hours of training to volunteers who can answer the crisis line from their homes. Life Span has a full range of domestic violence services for immigrant women and non-English speaking clients, particularly Spanish and Polish speakers. We have a continuing need for bilingual volunteers who are available for the crisis line and for occasionally translating for clients.

Volunteers

Board Membership  Life Span is looking for dynamic, Caring, and talented people to serve on our Board of Directors.  We need board members who are honest, sensitive, creative, and hard-working.  No special skills or experience is needed.

Serving on our Board is a satisfying and worthwhile experience and is a wonderful way to give back to your community!  Life Span's Board makes sure the Agency fulfills its mission and is fiscally sound and well-funded.  The Board meets once per month to provide oversight to the agency's operations and finances.  Board members work to raise funds for the agency foster community support for our work, and help determine the programs we offer and the goals our agency is accomplishing.

If you are interested in becoming involved in this successful and growing agency, please call our Executive Director, Denice Wolf Markham, at 312/408-1210 to request an application.

Board Membership

Community Education is provided by members of our staff, board, and volunteers. They speak before civic groups, businesses, religious institutions, and schools. We provide this service to inform the public about the extent and character of domestic violence in their communities and to reduce the community's acceptance and tolerance of this problem. Life Span's Teen Dating Violence Prevention program is recognized for its excellence by both school administrators and students. Corporations such as Motorola have invited Life Span to speak to employees about domestic violence in the workplace.

Community Education

Our Technical Assistance program helps ensure the responsive and appropriate delivery of public services to battered women and their children by the medical community, criminal justice system, law enforcement, educators, and social service providers. Life Span provides education on domestic violence to lawyers, hospitals, school professionals and other service providers. Advocacy and consultation regarding public and institutional policies that impact victims of domestic violence are also provided. Our Police Domestic Violence Program is nationally recognized for its groundbreaking efforts to end the code of silence surrounding the special circumstances these victims face.

Technical Assistance

Community Support Life Span is a not-for-profit organization funded by the United Ways and local townships. Corporations, foundations, community groups, churches and temples, and individuals also become our partners through their offer of financial and volunteer support.

Community Support

Contact Us....

if you are interested in

• becoming a volunteer,

• requesting a speaker,

• scheduling training or,

• becoming a funding partner.
   

Please call our Director of Counseling at 847/824-0382.

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