Needs From: Get Connected - Volunteer Fox Cities

Reach Counseling is invited to provide outreach at many community, school, and informational events throughout the Fox Valley to engage with community members about our services. Outreach volunteers help us to reach more community members by expanding our capacity to attend more events!

Volunteers will receive training to ensure they can speak about the services Reach provides to community members who visit our booth. These community events typically occur on week nights and weekends.

Examples of past outreach events Reach has attended include:

Fox Valley Pride

Juneteenth

Elementary, Middle, and High School Back to School Fairs

Recurring Walk In Wednesday events at the Oshkosh Boys and Girls Club and Multicultural Coalition

Area Farmers' Markets

Other community fairs as requested

Reach Counseling's Prevention Education program is active in more than 70 schools in Winnebago and Outagamie Counties. We have a K-12 curriculum for sexual violence to educate about and prevent child sexual abuse in our community. Volunteer Educators will be trained and will present within the schools.

Additional training will be provided to answer questions from the students and respond if they disclose sexual abuse.

Volunteer Educators must be available between the hours of 8am-3:30pm Monday - Friday to present in schools. Some travel within the Fox Cities required.

Reach Counseling provides crisis intervention and emotional support 24/7 to survivors of sexual assault and their friends/family with the help of On-Call Advocates. On-Call Advocates are on call nights, weekends, and holidays between the hours of 5pm and 7am, or 7am until 5pm.

On-Call Advocates receive training to provide emotional support, crisis intervention, information and resources to survivors of sexual abuse and assault in Winnebago, Outagamie, and Calumet Counties. On-Call Advocates provide these services in person at a local hospital. Advocates work alongside medical and legal professionals to ensure survivors are supported while navigating these processes, reducing further trauma and re-victimization while tending to a survivor’s emotional needs. 

On-Call Advocates will work with nurses and law enforcement to provide wrap-around, compassionate care while a survivor receives a forensic exam and/or gives a statement to the police. On-Call Advocates may respond to Aurora & Mercy in Oshkosh, ThedaCare in Neenah, St. Elizabeth and ThedaCare in Appleton, and Calumet County Hospital in Chilton. To ensure a flexible schedule, on-Call Advocates are in control of which hospitals they sign up to respond to, as well as which and how many shifts they choose.

On-Call Advocates must have a driver's license, car insurance and vehicle while on call. On-Call Advocates take calls through their own phones, from their homes. On-Call Advocates must be aware they will hear details of sexual abuse and assault and should know how hearing these stories will impact them.