Approximately two days per month requested. Telephone work may be done from home. To help relieve the stresses that can lead to abuse, Family Growth, a division of Catholic Charities, is looking for volunteers to assist Mercer County families affected by child abuse. Volunteers are needed to work as Family Friends with selected families in the community. These Family Friends extend their friendship and support to troubled families by spending approximately two hours a week in various activities with the family member with whom they are matched, usually a parent.
Hours are flexible and training is provided.
Since 1975, Family Growth has provided intensive counseling to abused children, spouses, adult survivors of child abuse, and the abusers themselves. As such, I am responsible for establishing the local chapter here in Princeton. I have also been asked to merge both Princeton Twp and Princeton Borough, as many of the social services are also merged. The NOD's goal is to see that all disabled people are afforded the opportunity of leading full and productive lives within their communities, if they so choose. I mean that all disabilities are welcome, be it a physical, emotional, psychological or learning disability.