Get Involved
Volunteer
Safe Haven Ministries has many opportunities for involvement that can align with your group, team, or individual interests.
Find Your Fit
Safe Haven welcomes volunteers in a variety of roles. From those that volunteer their time on a reoccurring basis, complete unique projects or collect needed donations, all make a meaningful contribution to our mission of supporting survivors and prevention violence.
Learn more about volunteering and find the best fit for you or your group.
Take on a Project
If your office, team, church, book club, running or walking group, golf league, etc. are looking to get involved, we welcome individuals or groups of any size and will find the best suited volunteer project that aligns with your identity and contributes to Safe Haven Ministries’ mission.
Explore our project-based volunteer opportunities and make an impact.
Become a Volunteer
Safe Haven welcomes volunteers in many capacities. All play an important role in our organization.
From those that volunteer their time on a recurring basis or complete projects as needed at the office, in the shelter, or on the grounds of Safe Haven.
Whether answering phones, organizing welcome packets, mulching our landscape, donating meals, hosting food drives, collecting GERI books or wish list items – we appreciate all contributions and will work to find the right fit for each individual or groups of any size.
Those that volunteer at our office or within our shelter, interacting directly with our clients, must complete a training and onboarding process. This helps support you in your role and to ensure we always deliver trauma-informed and client-centered services to victims and survivors of domestic violence and/or human trafficking.
Volunteers are required to complete a total of 12 hours of training prior to starting in a volunteer role, including attending the Domestic Violence & Anti-Trafficking Seminar and the New Entry training. The New Entry training requires an application and an interview.
After completing Domestic Violence Seminar and New Entry, you will also receive on-the-job training specific to your role. This training takes place during your normal volunteer shift.
This volunteer role helps live out Safe Haven’s committment to radical hospitality by creating a safe and welcoming environment for anyone that walks through our doors or calls the agency. The Front Desk Volunteer is responsible for greeting all appointments that come to our office, including clients and community members. This role is also responsible for answering all phone calls, including hotline calls, and transferring the caller to the appropriate staff member.
Our current needs for volunteers are Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8am-1pm. Even if you have availability for only part of these hours, please still consider applying.
This volunteer role helps Safe Haven live into its commitment to provide safe and healing environments for children and youth who have been impacted by domestic violence and/or human trafficking.
Children’s Program Volunteers provide care and support to children’s program groups. This includes providing supervision of children, organizing activities and free play.
The Children’s Program Volunteer must have availability on Tuesdays (5:45p-8:00) and/or Thursdays (5:45pm-8:00pm). An ideal volunteer would be available for 2-4 shifts per month.
Other Ways to Volunteer
Start a volunteer project
If your office, team, church, book club, running or walking group, golf league, etc. are looking to get involved, with individuals or groups of any size to find the best suited volunteer project that aligns with your identity and contributes to Safe Haven Ministries’ mission.
Creating gift baskets for families entering a Safe Transitions home
Collect wish list items or host a wish list drive
Organize a meal train to serve to a support group
Volunteer to help Safe Haven with groundskeeping
Host a Common Table event
Collect books for our GERI program
For more information about volunteering, please contact us at development@shmgr.org.
Magnolia Heart & Hand Honoree
In loving memory of Bill Stevenson
Every week, for seven years, Bill volunteered at our front desk. His peaceful, kind, steady presence week after week was the greeting that met our staff and led us to pause for a minute to talk with Bill. He listened, smiled, asked questions and connected people to the resources they needed. He also answered our phones, his voice giving calm assurance to the other person on the line that someone cared about the crisis unfolding in their lives.
Bill was welcome peace and lived out his faith so tangibly. Week after week and thousands of hours of service. It’s with a heavy heart that we share our beloved friend, Bill Stevenson Jr. passed on May 8, 2026.
We bless God for Bill and what a delight to know someday we will meet again and we have no doubt the welcome will be more beautiful than we could imagine. Bill not only spoke about his faith he created welcome as a discipline, a rhythm in his life. And in a world spinning in chaos and polarization what Bill embodied was a routine that gave life, for survivors and also himself.
