Direct Services

• Provide direct services to survivors through the hotline and in-person request

• Provide on-going survivor centered emotional support and advocacy, including safety planning, options, and crisis management

• Provide referrals to, and advocacy with, community agencies

• Assist in accessing emergency, temporary, and permanent housing

• Assist with support group(s), as needed

  • Support service users through the criminal and civil legal systems:

    • Provide advocacy and accompaniment to Emergency and Final Relief from Abuse Order hearing and other court proceedings including Family, Civil, and Criminal court

    • Maintain materials and resources for people seeking legal relief from abuse orders

    • Provide criminal justice advocacy and support by coordinating services with community partners such as law enforcement agencies, The State’s Attorney’s Office, Victim Advocates, Probation and Parole, etc.

    • Provide victims compensation information and advocacy

• Support service users with economic justice matters:

• Maintenance and expansion of economic justice resources

• Outreach and marketing of economic justice resources

• Development and implementation of economic justice related workshops

Facilitate a safer environment for parent child contact to occur

• Maintain the policy of strict neutrality between all parties involved, providing unbiased services that emphasizes in an uncompromising way the safety that each individual is entitled to while helping create a child centered environment 

• Intervene in visits when a visiting parent’s behavior is inappropriate or threatens the safety of children, the other parent or program staff

• Document visits on the appropriate Visitation Log and submit to The SVP Coordinator in a timely manner

• Follow up with visitation participants and The SVP Coordinator regarding safety issues and/or inappropriate behaviors

• Meet regularly with The SVP Coordinator for support and supervision

• Attend monthly Monitor meetings

• Assist with regular maintenance of SVP visit rooms and spaces

• Assist with regular maintenance of the toys, games, books, etc.

• Maintain good working relationship with community partners

• Be available on a per diem basis for visits on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays up to 5 hours total per week.

The per diem, Direct Service Advocate is responsible for the direct provision of comprehensive, trauma informed services to those accessing services from the Supervised Visitation Program at Atria. This position will assist the Supervised Visitation Program as a Program Monitor. The duties and responsibilities are as follows:

Direct Service Advocate with the Supervised Visitation Program at Atria

To apply, send cover letter and resume to Davina@AtriaVT.org

Volunteer with Atria

Our volunteer training is bi-annual, typically held in October and April. To make our training as accessible as possible, our trainings follow a hybrid model, where participants attend in-person and/or virtually.

We offer various tracks for volunteers to choose. Everyone must first go through the Foundations track, which covers the history and roots of sexual & domestic violence, domestic violence 101, and sexual violence 101. Then, volunteers who would like additional training can follow our advocacy track, supervised visitation track, and/or administrative track.