Family and Community Resources

  • To Volunteer, Contact:
    Dena Miller
    508-584-2809
  • Organization Type: Community Services

Family and Community Resources is a non-profit providing services to survivors of trauma, primarily domestic violence. Our multi-lingual services include safety planning, providing support, counseling-both group and individual, legal advocacy, supervised visitation centers, outreach, and community education.

Volunteer Opportunities: We do not offer the opportunity to represent clients in court. Instead, we provide legal advocacy volunteer opportunities, to help individual domestic violence survivors with legal issues. Please note that FCR does not have volunteer hour or case load requirements unless the lawyer's position or license requires it.

  • Safety plan with survivors-both physical and emotional safety planning to cope with stress and challenges of legal system involvement
  • Support survivors in understanding & evaluating potential risks and benefits of various legal options
  • Work with survivor to implement their choices
  • Help survivors access & understand legal resources, including self-help packets
  • Act as a scribe
  • Edit for punctuation and grammar
  • Read court forms or the law out loud to an individual
  • Help individuals fill out protection order or anti-harassment order forms, for FREE
  • Provide general information about the law and legal procedures to members of the general public, for FREE

Listing up-to-date as of September 2024.

  • County(s) of Volunteer Opportunity: Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth
  • Area of law: Family & Juvenile, Domestic Violence
  • Populations Served: Domestic Violence Victims, Low Income, trauma survivors, domestic violence perpetrators, human trafficking survivors
  • Opportunities For: Law Students, Lawyers, Paralegals
  • Malpractice insurance is provided for volunteers: No
  • Training Provided: Yes
  • Training Required: No
  • CLE credit for trainings: No
  • Training / Supervision Comments: Training on domestic violence provided.
  • CLE credit for pro bono: No
  • Mentoring or supervision offered: Yes
  • Volunteer lawyers need to meet a caseload or hours requirement: No
  • Other Case Load Requirements: six month commitment preferred
  • Types of projects in need of Pro Bono help: Client counseling (e.g., brief advice), Draft legal documents (e.g., briefs), Legal Research
  • Other Project Types: Prepare legal education materials
  • Volunteers may participate long-distance: No
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