All About CKN

Volunteers: Volunteers must go through a brief application process with questions pertaining to their experience with the unhoused population, experiences with mental health and addiction, and level of commitment. 

Volunteers must go through a month-long training program, in which they will do two one hour training sessions each week. At the end, they will decide on (and be evaluated for) the level of support they can offer and be put into the CKN system. 

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After this, volunteers pick the scope and time of their volunteer work. If you only can do 1 hour a week, that's fine! If you want to do 10 hours a week, fantastic! This is volunteer work that is on your own time, working with your schedule. 

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Service Providers: If a case manager, social worker, medical professional, chaplain, etc. identifies a client need that they cannot meet, they will send out a message to the system asking for a volunteer to undertake that specific task/act of support.

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Examples of needs include (but not limited to):

• Ride to a doctor’s office or hospital 

• DMV or social security support

• Help filling out paperwork 

• Ride to a shelter or rehabilitation center from jail 

• Transportation of stuff to a shelter or new home 

• Help moving furniture and stuff into new home 

• “Church buddy” - someone to accompany/drive individual to church

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​Our software system is custom built to meet the needs of the community using CKN. 

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3 Month Pilot Program will begin with the volunteer training in September 2024. If you are an interested volunteer or service provider. please contact us!