Thank you for your interest in volunteering with The Purple Door! We appreciate your desire to end violence and help make South Texas a healthy, thriving community. Our volunteers play an integral role in the success of our agency. Everyone is gifted with talents and skills. Whether it’s the ability to organize our donation room, accompany clients to court or the hospital, or bring characters to life as you read stories to the children in our shelter, we will make sure to match your strengths with our agency needs.

Depending on the type of work, some volunteers may need to attend training required by some of our funding sources. Please contact our administration office at 361-884-2900 for more details and information on the training schedule.

Below is a list of basic volunteer opportunities available with our agency. But we welcome your ideas – feel free to contact our administrative office if you’re interested in providing another service or project!

Volunteers around a table

Direct-Service

  • This will require the following:

  1. 48 hours of Sexual Assault training

  2. 8 hours of domestic violence 101 training

  • Residential Services

    • Shelter Hotline- We have advocates answering our shelter hotline 24-hours/7 days-a-week. Volunteers can help us by answering the hotline to assist clients and provide referrals when appropriate.
    • Resident and Youth Advocate – Volunteers work with resident advocates and y0uth advocate in shelter to assist with client’s needs.

  • Criminal Justice

    • Court Accompaniment – Volunteers accompany clients to court to offer support during the legal process.

  • Sexual Assault Victim Services

    • Sexual Assault Response Team (S.A.R.T) volunteers provide immediate response to victims of sexual assault at Corpus Christi Medical Center- Doctor’s Regional. This volunteer service requires sexual assault advocate training.

Indirect-Service

This will require an agency overview and simple orientation prior to the project. However, if you plan to volunteer in any of these areas regularly, you must complete 8 hours of Domestic Violence 101 Training.

  • Prevention and Education

    • Community Education– Volunteers can attend events with staff or conduct their own information table.

  • Miscellaneous

    • Clerical– Volunteers may assist with clerical work for various programs as needed.
    • Donation Room- Volunteers may assist with sorting the donation room as needed.

Special Projects

This will require an agency overview and simple orientation prior to the project. Groups or individuals can come in and provide any of these activities.

  • Provide and serve dinner for up to 65 people
  • Reading circle with youth
  • Art activities
  • Movie Night at the shelter
  • Spa Day for adults
  • Health and Fitness activities for parents and children
  • Cleaning and sorting commodity room
  • Donation drives
  • Button-making at administrative office

Assembling “Moving On” and “Birthday” boxes for residents in shelter at our administrative office.

*There are many more ideas and projects that can fall under this category. We welcome your creativity!

If you’d like more information, please call 361-884-2900 and speak with our administrative office.