.S:SSzSSSSSS . PROJECT SHEET The Hebrew word sherut means service. Project Sherut provides in-kind goods and services to community service organizations. Each week, we will publish requests for needed items. Persons interested in helping to meet these needs should contact Miriam lmerman at The Jewish Community Council at 962-1880. Also, organizations or groups in need of in-kind services should contact The Jewish Community Council. DISPOSABLE DIAPERS, BABY BOTTLES, CHIL- DREN'S UNDERWEAR, PIL- LOWS, FOOD, ETC. Coalition On Temporary Shelter (COTS) provides emergency shelter, food, clothing and social ser- vices to the homeless. COTS needs disposable diapers, baby bottles, baby rash oint- ment, children's socks, children's new underwear, new bras, pillows and pillowcases, toothbrushes, toothpaste, food, especially infant food, a large food mixer and small paper- back dictionaries. VOLUNTEERS, COMPUT- ERS, ELECTRIC TYPEWRIT- ER, FILE DRAWERS, FAX MACHINE. Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit addresses fair housing issues in the Detroit metropolitan area, seeking to assure equal access to housing without discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, national origin, marital or handicapped status. Fair Housing Center needs volunteers for complaint investigations and research, office work to prepare materials for attorneys, com- puters and associated hard- ware and software, an electric typewriter, letter and legal-size file drawers, a fax machine and a desktop size paper folding machine. MEMORY TYPEWRITER, OF- FICE/WAREHOUSE SPACE. Yad Ezra is a food pantry ser- ving low-income members of the Jewish community. Since opening its doors in February, 1990, Yad Ezra has dispensed over 100,000 pounds of food. Yad Ezra needs a typewriter with memory and donated of- fice and/or warehouse space (approximately 1,500 sq. ft.) HAVEN Help Against Violent Eriaxinters Now HAVEN HAVEN, Oakland County Counseling Agency and shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, has schedul- ed orientations for prospective volunteers in June. Volunteers are needed as first response advocates to pro- vide crisis intervention for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Volunteers are also needed to work the crisis line at the shelter which is located in the Pontiac area. HAVEN has a number of other programs in which women and men volunteer their time. For further information about volunteer opportunities, contact Jane Balousek at 334-1284. liESITER Kesher is the Hebrew word for "link." The purpose of this page will be to present a selec- tion of opportunities which link members of our community to agencies and individuals that can benefit from the energy, resources and spirit we possess in abundance. ■ " - •\ - 1.1. " N.1.. ."\- ■ =',.. "• ••%. • " SS:SSSSSSS:SSS OPPORTUNITIES YOLMEEll OPPORTUNITIES Arotating listing of organizations offering volunteer opportunities. Each week, some of these opportunities will be highlighted in depth in the Volunteer Link section of this page. Dearborn Crisis Center 5281 Calhoun Dearborn, MI 48216 Rosalie Degregorio (313) 584-7800 Detroit Area Camp Fire, Inc. Crossroads Building, #301 16250 Northland Drive Southfield, MI 48075 Nikki Fitchko or Teresa Higgins 559-5840 Detroit Improvement Association, Inc. 2690 W. Boston, Suite 410 Detroit, MI 48206 Shelton Vaughn 865-0266 Detroit Improvement Association, Inc. 2690 W. Boston, Suite 410 Detroit, MI 48206 Shelton Vaughn 865-0266 Detroit Institute for Children 5447 Woodward Detroit, MI 48202 Cynthia Haradean 832-1100 FAMILY-TO-FAMILY Detroit Police Rape Counseling - Victim Assistance 4201 St. Antoine Detroit, MI 48201 Althea M. Grant, Director Dan Kaller, Volunteer Coordinator 832-2530 Detroit Urban League 208 Mack Ave. Detroit, MI 48201 Cassandra A. Nelson, MSW (313) 832-4600 Downriver Guidance Clinic 29259 Biddle Avenue Suite 200 Wyandotte, MI 48192 Mary Kasiborski (313) 285-6400 Detroit Youth Assistance Program 1025 East Forest Detroit, MI 48207 Judith Scafe, Volunteer Coordinator 577-9290 Downriver Recycling Center 4733 W. Jefferson Trenton, MI 48183 Deborah Bloomfield 676-0466, 283-9753 VOLUNTEER LINK VOLUNTEER LINK 1 This weekly feature highlights some organizations in the Jewish and general communities that rely on volunteers. Opportunities for a nearly limitless range of volunteers will be highlighted. Michigan Animal Rescue League 1 1 1 1 790 Featherstone Pontiac, MI Michigan Animal Rescue League provides food, shelter, and medical attention for the homeless cats and dogs who reside with the agency until loving homes are found. Michigan Animal Rescue League's stance on providing quality care for animals means that it will not destroy the animals nor sell them for research. Volunteers are needed to care for and feed animals, and to assist with fundraising, craft shows, and mailings. Skills needed: — Care and love of animals Estimated time commitment: flexible Contact: Diane Krae at 737-0105 WDET-FM Public Radio in Detroit 6601 Cass Ave. Detroit, MI 48202 WDET - FM is a public, non- commercial radio station licensed to Wayne State University in Detroit. WDET of- fers non-commercial variety radio to the metropolitan Detroit area, including music, in-depth news and information, and community access pro- grams. WDET is funded primarily from listener constributions. Volunteers are needed to answer phones during WDET's bi-annual on-air fun- draisers, fill out pledge forms, stuff envelopes, and perform computer data entry. Skills needed: — Strong telephone skills — Neat handwriting Estimated Time Commit- ment: One four-hour shift — fundraising hours are 6 A.M.- Midnight and on weekends. People can volunteer in- dividually, or as groups. Contact: Judy Donlin at 577-4146 Women's Survival Center 167 W. Pike Street Pontiac, MI 48341 Women's Survival Center is committed to helping women take control of all aspects of their lives. It offers a crisis In- tervention program, as well as an Information and Referral Program to phone callers in the tri-county area. Volunteers are needed to serve as peer phone counselors. Skills needed: — Empathetic listening skills. Training will be provided. Estimated Time Commitment: One 4-hour block per week during business hours, weekdays. Contact Anne Borg at 335-2685 Detroit Central City Community Mental Health, Inc, 10 Peterboro Detroit, MI 48201 Detroit Central City Com- munity Mental Health offers psychiatric, psychological, social work, case manage- ment, and other mental health services to the emotionally and mentally ill. It serves an adult population that is . often characterized by weak family networks, substance abuse, unemployment, homeless- ness, and socioeconomic deprivation. Services are pro- vided to reduce the incidence, intensity, and dysfunction com- monly associated with mental illness through outpatient, par- tial hospitalization, assertive community treatment, and case management programs. Volunteers are needed to assist administrators, clinical, clerical, and other support staff with various duties. Volunteers with backgrounds in physical, music, and occupational therapy, social work, and especially nursing are needed. Skills needed: — Clinical record review, com- puter key entry, data pro- cessing, and medical records filing, distributions and notations. — Secretarial/Receptionist skills such as typing, answering phones — Research and statistical skills Estimated Time Commitment: A minimum of 6 months, but a longer commitment is preferred. Contact Janet L. Sheerin, Ph.D. at 831-3160 NATIONAL III COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN FATLY TO FATLY The Family to Family program, a joint project of the National Coun- cil of Jewish Women and Women's Division of the Jewish Welfare Federation, has been successful in connecting many families in the Detroit area with Soviet Jewish newcomers. We have a special need now for senior friendship. Your lives would be greatly enriched if you reached out to welcome these wonderful people. Won't you please join us in this exciting program? Please contact NCJW 258-6000 to connect with one of the seniors listed below. Very nice couple from Baku in their late sixties. He was a den- tist and she a musician. They enjoy music and traveling. They speak a little English and fluent Yiddish. 44 FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1991 Couple in their mid-sixties from Kharkov. They were both engineers and enjoy reading and music. They speak a little English and fluent Yiddish. 111,1111 HAK DETROIT SECTION GREATER 30233 SOUTHFIELD RD., SUITE 100 SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN 48076 THEVOICE Get your reading voices ready for . • • JEWISH NEWS ON TAPE, a new project that will make weekly copies of the newspaper available on cassette tapes for the visually impaired and disabled. The project is brought to the community courtesy of the National Council of Jewish Women, its Hakol branch, The Jewish News, and the National Reading Library for the Blind. Tapes will be distributed through the National Reading Library for the Blind in Farmington Hills, which estimates it has hun- dreds of Jewish subscribers. Persons in need of this service may request copies through NCJW. Readers are needed for Thursday evenings and Friday mornings. Time commitment is flexible. In- terested volunteers may contact Ruth Littmann or Janelle Miller at the NCJW office, 258-6000.