Volunteer Vitals
This is mandatory for a volunteer to attend monthly.
2. What is the best day of the month?! The meetings!
This is the person who is always available to answer your questions or debrief a case.
7. Your on call staff member!
This type of weapon is not allowed to be brought on scene.
13. What is a gun?
This is something you should never do while on call.
12. What is drinking or using drugs?
These describes the only agencies we respond for.
27. What is APD, SOM, EPD, WRPD, MPD, MVPD, LSPD, GPD
These are things that an advocate must do on their own each year
3 & 4. What are ride alongs and 6 hours of ongoing education?
This is what you should do if you can't work your shift.
15. Get it covered
This describes our dress code.
14. Expected to dress neat; no jeans, no flip flops.
This is something you should never do in order to avoid becoming a witness.
22. What is giving your full name in a report or having information for the officer that the victim didn’t directly report.?
Explain limited confidentiality to your victim
This describes the length of intervention VOI provides.
30. Short-term crisis intervention only. Refer to proper agency.
These are things that are checked annually.
5. What are fingerprints and police records?
This describes the pager protocol when multiple calls come in
6. What is primary determines the call, responds to the thread with information, then secondary is on pager. If both go out, the staff person is on pager.
This is the time limit given to respond on scene from when you are dispatched (list exceptions).
16. What is 20 minutes?
Except Arvada and Morrison, except when there is weather.
This is something you should never do in regards to confidentiality
18. What is talking to the media, giving detailed information to people other than those involved, posting on social media, or having conversations in public about a case.
This describes how to settle conflict.
31. Directly as possible. Then get more help if needed.
This describes the amount of shifts and the shift time range advocates are responsible for.
10. 4-6 shifts a month.
5pm-8am M-F
24 hours weekends and holidays
This is what you must do after a call.
17. Submit a Volunteer Log
This is our number one priority on scene!
26. Advocate Safety!
This describes something you should never do in regards to boundaries with a victim.
28. You should never exchange personal information.
29. Never advocate for someone you know
VOI will NOT do this to a volunteer that is making a complaint.
32. What is retaliate?
This needs to be signed at each meeting.
11. Monthly time record
This describes something I have to take into my personal life.
23. What is being a mandated reporter?
Types of calls you are required to contact the on-call staff person immediately
8. What is an atypical call? (i.e. Police Command staff is present, human trafficking, homicide, OIS)
This is advice you should never give.
25. What is legal advice?
This describes what you should do prior to any fundraising efforts.
35. Notify the executive director and make sure we can accept the funds :)