After our recent funding cuts at the Tenant Resource Center, our staff continues to shrink. We have lost 3 part-time and 2 full time employees over the past few years . . . so we need volunteers to make up more than 40 hours of work per week! We want to return to our regular office hours of Monday – Friday from 9 – 6 at the first of the year, and we can only do that with help from the community!
TRC is seeking people who are willing to make at least a one year commitment to volunteer on a weekly basis as housing counselors. Learn to help others solve their rental housing related problems! Volunteer housing counselors help staff our housing information line and assist walk-ins with their rental housing questions. About 60% of the questions are about evictions, getting repairs done, getting a security deposit back or breaking a lease. The rest are varied but include things like landlord entry, ending a month to month tenancy, earnest money (deposits), discrimination, retaliation and oh, so much more! Training and thorough written materials are provided on the basics of tenant and landlord rights and responsibilities. The typical volunteer commitment is 3 to 5 hours per week, between the hours of 9:00 and 6:00, Monday through Friday.
Great for retired professionals, law students, social work students, and political science and urban planning students looking for non-profit experience, but ALL are welcome!
Contact Megin at 608-257-0143 or by e-mail at mmcdonell@tenantresourcecenter.org for more information or to sign up. Please sign up at least 24 hours in advance so that enough materials will be available.
There are two different options for completing the necessary training.
Please CHOOSE either “Training Option One” OR “Training Option Two”.
Training Option ONE – Must attend the full day. This single full-day training will complete the training requirement.
SATURDAY, January 5, 9:00—5:00
Training Option TWO – Must attend three different sessions. CHOOSE ONE option for each of three sessions. Select one from session one, plus one from session two, plus one from session three to complete the training requirement.
Session ONE, choose either
