Program: Parent to Child
Training and onboarding: Seasonal, roughly 4 times a year
In partnership with the Dane County Department of Human Services, provide parents with supervised visitation opportunities during evenings and weekends. Volunteers supervise visits as ordered by the court and give objective reports based on those interactions, while also serving as a mentor and advocate for those parents and families.

Program: Oasis
Training and onboarding: As needed, throughout the year
Childcare Specialists provide a warm, welcoming presence to make clients feel comfortable when they enter our office. They take care of maintaining a clean and sanitary childcare space, and provide supervision for young children while they’re at Canopy Center for a family visit or while their parents/caregivers attend treatment, support groups, or training. They create a safe, fun environment for children (infants through 12-years-old) and offer the positive role modeling and extra one-on-one attention that allows children to thrive.

Program: Admin
Training and onboarding: As needed, throughout the year
Client Services Assistants provide a warm, welcoming presence to make clients feel comfortable when they enter our office. Their main task is greeting and directing visitors and clients as they come in – making sure they are situated, that the appropriate staff is notified, and providing refreshments. Assistants are also responsible for answering and directing phone calls, maintaining a clean and sanitary waiting area, and assisting with administrative and fundraising projects as needed.

Program: CASA of Dane and Columbia Counties
Training and onboarding: Fall and Spring
CASAs are assigned by a Dane County juvenile court judge to meet weekly with a child going through the child welfare system. Build up a caring, mentoring relationship with the child, while also exploring the circumstances for the case, communicating your findings, and making recommendations to the judge and other legal parties via written reports. Please note that CASA has a separate application than our other volunteer opportunities.

Program: Parent to Child
Training and onboarding: Seasonal, roughly 4 times a year
Largely similar in duties to the Family Interaction Specialist position listed above. Schedule and hours flexible to meet program requirements.

Program: CASA of Dane and Columbia Counties
Training and onboarding: Beginning of each semester
The CASA intern provides support to CASA volunteers and assists in advocacy initiatives for the children served by the CASA program. The intern is responsible for supporting the case coordinator with duties related to their caseload as well as general program support in the form of community outreach, training of volunteers, stakeholder relations.

Program: Oasis
Training and onboarding: Position starts with school year, interviews in spring
Education Requirement: Interns must be enrolled and working on a master's degree in Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy, Social Work, or a related field.
The Clinical Intern conducts trauma assessments and intakes, provides individual, group and family therapy, provides crisis counseling as needed, maintains client records, attends team treatment coordination meetings, and works as part of the agency’s team of therapists who work with families affected by child sexual abuse. Clinical Interns will be provided training, including observation of therapy sessions, and case load will be determined by the number of hours per week of the internship.

Program: Oasis
Training and onboarding: Beginning of each school year
The Childcare Specialist Intern is responsible for providing direct childcare supervision as needed, as well as a safe, nurturing, and activity-based environment for children in a trauma-informed setting. They must maintain the physical childcare space and therapy rooms to ensure they are kept clean and tidy, and develop activities for childcare (especially art activities).