tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post8595000907739683321..comments2024-03-22T05:55:48.117-04:00Comments on The Pervocracy: Put your clicks where your mouth is.Cliff Pervocracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02080142422250604406noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-6987008394490727682010-11-07T18:21:44.135-05:002010-11-07T18:21:44.135-05:00Thanks, Holly, for putting this up. BARCC always ...Thanks, Holly, for putting this up. BARCC always needs cash, and getting more volunteers is super, super helpful, too. <br /><br />And remember folks - the hotline is 24 hours, which means that if you have a weird schedule, but can at least block out 4 hours a week or so when you can HAVE A PHONE NEAR YOU (it's not like you can't do other things during that time), you can volunteer for the hotline. It's anti-rapey good times!Tastyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03253986724749578947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-75774307462218205002010-11-04T09:23:35.896-04:002010-11-04T09:23:35.896-04:00YAY thanks Holly. :)
About volunteering! Our webs...YAY thanks Holly. :)<br /><br />About volunteering! Our website has all the details and the info (http://barcc.org/join/volunteer-intern/volunteer), but basically, it's a 40-hour training to become a hotline counselor, a medical advocate, or a community awareness & prevention volunteer... all of those gigs and the time commitments thereof are on our site, but essentially, hotline and med ad are regular-scheduled shifts once a week and CAPS is random, because we have all different sorts of things at all different sorts of times. There is an interview process, and prospective volunteers need to pass a CORI (which I'm sure Holly already has for her job), but you don't need prior experience - the training is really comprehensive.<br /><br />As for guest blogging YES PLEASE! :)Shirahttp://www.barcc.org/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-48932119057308427792010-11-03T03:01:52.061-04:002010-11-03T03:01:52.061-04:00Yay! I started reading your blog last month, and I...Yay! I started reading your blog last month, and I love it so. I'm one of those folks who drives to the ER at 3 in the morning to hang out with folks undergoing so much trauma, and it is so nice when someone else knows that role exists! It is a pretty isolating job to fill. Thanks for the shout.<br /><br />I hope your health starts returning soon.notinthestyleof.tigershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13349830263202345211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-78304783219615923582010-11-02T23:54:02.827-04:002010-11-02T23:54:02.827-04:00Voted! Is currently in completely wrong area of co...Voted! Is currently in completely wrong area of country to volunteer, but does help at local college anti-rape group.ozymandiasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-51630477319531771152010-11-02T23:17:23.974-04:002010-11-02T23:17:23.974-04:00Matzo ball soup. It is hereby prescribed. Find you...Matzo ball soup. It is hereby prescribed. Find yourself a Jew to make you some!<br /><br />[Note: This comment is tongue-in-cheek.]Aaronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-62358950991540025462010-11-02T23:15:40.682-04:002010-11-02T23:15:40.682-04:00Also, I hope you feel better soon. :( Being sick i...Also, I hope you feel better soon. :( Being sick is the worst.Sammynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-73296180951549504122010-11-02T23:13:18.245-04:002010-11-02T23:13:18.245-04:00Done, and feel better :)Done, and feel better :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-6090221956453412852010-11-02T23:12:19.504-04:002010-11-02T23:12:19.504-04:00Voted! Can't volunteer, due to obvious restric...Voted! Can't volunteer, due to obvious restrictions of being more than halfway across the country, but I'll see about donating when I get paid.Sammynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-80546483339549265332010-11-02T22:57:57.742-04:002010-11-02T22:57:57.742-04:00Jack, I would guess (based on prior experiences) t...Jack, I would guess (based on prior experiences) that places like BARCC tend to be more picky about who they let volunteer because they put a lot of training time/money into their volunteers, in a way that say, a local food bank doesn't need to. (After all, when you post about food banks on a website, you don't get 100+ comments debating the finer points of letting people starve/the importance of not making people feel bad about people starving). Thus, if you aren't a good time investment for them (like they have to train you 30 some odd hours or whatever but you'll only be able to volunteer sporadically and rarely), then they aren't going to want to put that time in. <br /><br />I mean, ultimately this is a *bit* of conjecture, I just know that when I wanted to apply to volunteer for Planned Parenthood they were pretty "uhhhhh we'll have to vet you" about it, which food banks/habitat for humanity, not so much.TheDeviantEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11962230588950968738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-83950132162821283342010-11-02T22:24:27.222-04:002010-11-02T22:24:27.222-04:00Huh. I've never worked a rape hotline before,...Huh. I've never worked a rape hotline before, I don't know if you have to do certain minimum-duration shifts or what. I was thinking more 'days off' time anyway.Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-44828502060216390812010-11-02T22:18:01.563-04:002010-11-02T22:18:01.563-04:00Yes, but that's when I sleep. (Perennial nigh...Yes, but that's when I <i>sleep</i>. (Perennial night-worker gripe: people who think "so you're free all day then!" No, I'm not at work all day. If I sleep 'til 5pm and have to leave for work at 10pm, I can't do a five-hour volunteer shift and still get my activities of daily living done.)<br /><br />However, they mention needing people to write for the website, and I could certainly do that, or I could volunteer to help with community outreach and fundraising, or whatnot. I'm not sure, I need to ask the BARCC people once I'm less-dead.Cliff Pervocracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02080142422250604406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-55892227782126767412010-11-02T22:11:38.814-04:002010-11-02T22:11:38.814-04:00By the time you have trouble breathing, going to t...By the time you have trouble breathing, going to the ER might be a bit beyond your capabilities...<br /><br /><i>I donated to BARCC when I made this post and I'm going to see about volunteering although that may be sort of difficult with my night schedule.</i><br /><br />Hell, don't they need people during the day too? For the 24-hour hotline or whatever?Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-52435862465562523052010-11-02T22:03:32.178-04:002010-11-02T22:03:32.178-04:00Cheshire - My mother once said she envied AIDS pat...Cheshire - My mother once said she envied AIDS patients because they lose all that weight. She wasn't even kidding. (My mother is crazy. Me, I'm kind of glad I'm fat right now, because I have <i>reserves</i>.)<br /><br />Jack - I've spoken with the doctor and it basically comes down to "if you can't drink enough water or you have trouble breathing, go to the ER... otherwise, Motrin and water and good luck, kid."<br /><br />I donated to BARCC when I made this post and I'm going to see about volunteering although that may be sort of difficult with my night schedule.Cliff Pervocracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02080142422250604406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-12039865084207173292010-11-02T21:59:32.659-04:002010-11-02T21:59:32.659-04:00Huh. That post should have shown up with my name,...Huh. That post should have shown up with my name, but didn't. Odd.<br /><br />I voted for almost all Boston stuff (yeah, I'm a homer), other than a couple categories where the Boston charity wasn't one that overly interested me and was 'up against' one involving breast cancer (my mom's a survivor, so those tend to capture my awareness a bit more).Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-74175442840160359512010-11-02T21:56:25.337-04:002010-11-02T21:56:25.337-04:00Hmm. Are these extended-duration symptoms normal,...Hmm. Are these extended-duration symptoms normal, or should you be hieing yourself back to the doctor's?<br /><br />I don't think we've ever talked about this -- do you (not this week, I mean in general when you're healthy, etc.) volunteer for BARCC, or donate to them, etc.? I don't remember you mentioning them before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-49297988242605435202010-11-02T21:51:28.165-04:002010-11-02T21:51:28.165-04:00Done, now look after yourself and drink the soup o...Done, now look after yourself and drink the soup of your choice. <br /><br />Also, I have to point out at this point that *everyone knows weight lost is always healthy! right!* <br /><br />/no it really isn't, good luck on getting better.cheshirehttp://cheshire.dreamwidth.orgnoreply@blogger.com