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Volunteer With Us

When you volunteer at Where Hope Lives, you do more than give time—you help a young woman move from brokenness to success. Whether you’re preparing meals, mentoring, tutoring, or praying with her, your steady presence restores dignity, builds trust, and fills each day with hope. If you’re seeking a meaningful way to live out your faith and make a lasting impact, this is a place where your gifts truly matter.

Apply To Volunteer

Volunteering is a great way to give back to your community and make a difference in the lives of others.

And at the Where Hope Lives, we have a wide variety of volunteering opportunities available to suit your interests and skills. Whether it's working in our food pantry, sorting donations, helping to paint, there’s a place for everyone at Where Hope Lives.

But we can’t do it without you!

Every month, over 400 volunteers roll up their sleeves and do something amazing at Where Hope Lives. Some of these volunteers are from groups that come from Churches, some from businesses, and some from Schools. And some of these wonderful world changers are individuals who felt the call to make a difference on their own.

Are you ready to join them?

Contact us today and find out how you can get involved!

Step 1 = Volunteer Pre-screen Application

Fill Out The Pre-screen Volunteer Application Below

(takes a couple minutes)

One volunteer told us they filled it out in 30 seconds, but we think it may take more like a couple minutes! This information just helps us to send you some exact match projects for your consideration. Once you fill out the form, you’ll get connected with our Volunteer Advisor.

Step 2 = Attend A Starting Point Tour

Change The World!

(typically another 5 to 6 weeks)

After you fill out the Pre-screen Volunteer Application, you may be invited to a Staring Point Tour. There you’ll hear about opportunities to volunteer and you will start getting invited to Saturday Serve Events where you can meet other volunteers and start the volunteer process slowly.

Step 3 = Online Training and Background Checks

Start Online Orientation and Online Training

(typically takes 3 to 4 weeks)

Your Online Orientation will start right away and will be sent to your email. The Online Orientation will help you make decisions about volunteering with us. We’re pretty fast at this, so you’ll get an email within 2 or 3 minutes. Be sure to check spam folder if you don’t see it right away.

Stating Point Tour

Before joining our volunteer team, we now invite every prospective volunteer to meet with us face-to-face for a brief pre-screen tour.

This simple step helps us set realistic expectations, offer a warm first welcome onto our campus, and ensure each person fully understands the travel distances involved.

With four different program sites across Arizona, we want to make sure the location works well for you before you’re placed on a schedule or connected with the young people we serve. This visit helps us start strong together and sets you up for a meaningful, sustainable volunteer experience.

Because the privacy and security of the people we serve is so important, the exact tour location is not disclosed until after the pre-screening form is completed. But as you can see from the map on this page, you’ll be traveling to the general area of 75th Avenue and Glendale in Glendale, Arizona.

Once you’ve filled out the pre-screening form, we’ll send you the full address and final details for your visit. This helps us protect our residents while still giving you a clear sense of where you’ll be headed.

Before you go any further!

Volunteering with the Where Hope Lives Human Trafficking Recovery Program is a deeply meaningful but very serious undertaking.

Working with survivors requires strength, compassion, emotional maturity, and a commitment to honoring the sensitive and complex nature of their healing journey.

This is not for the faint of heart.

Because of the high level of care our residents deserve, we require all volunteers to complete a rigorous training and orientation process.

This ensures that every person serving is fully prepared to engage with trauma-informed practices and uphold the highest standards of safety, respect, and integrity.

This process will take time, patience and commitment. The same thing you’ll need when working with survivors of sex trafficking.

Our survivors are some of the most precious and important people in the world to us. We take the responsibility that God has given us to care for them seriously.

Thank you for understanding and respecting this!

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

If I fill out this form am I guaranteed to volunteer with Where Hope Lives?

No. The goal of this Online Volunteer Orientation is to give you and us enough information to see if this is a good fit and a good opportunity for you and if it will truly benefit the people we serve in their healing journey. From our end, it is critical that we do everything we can to protect the people we serve. This is our number one goal.

Is there a financial cost for me to volunteer with Where Hope Lives?

Yes and No. During the course of this Online Volunteer Orientation you will learn about two types of volunteer opportunities - 1) Direct-Service opportunities that have direct contact and interaction with our residents and 2) Non-Direct Service opportunities that do not have direct contact and interaction with our residents.

By Arizona State Law and Accreditation Requirements, there are extensive background check and fingerprint clearance card requirements of volunteers who have direct contact and interaction with survivors.

These extensive background checks and clearance paperwork filing we must do cost us around $270 per person, on average. As a measure of good-faith buy-in, we ask volunteers who need these extensive background checks to contribute 10% of our costs which is $27. You will also be asked to cover your own costs for getting a fingerprint clearance card but that card will be yours and will benefit you anywhere you go to work with or volunteer with children. These fingerprint clearance cards cost around $70.

Can my church or small group come as a group to volunteer?

Yes. We do have group volunteer activities available. However, these opportunities do not include direct contact and interaction with survivors unless all of the volunteers have completed the background check and fingerprint clearance card process.

Are children allowed to volunteer?

Yes and no. Children of all ages are allowed to attend the Non-Direct Service group volunteer projects as long as they are supervised by their parent or guardian at all times. Children are not allowed to volunteer for Direct-Service opportunities due to the requirement of extensive background check and fingerprint clearance card.

Do I have to be a Christian to volunteer?

Yes and no. We have many volunteer opportunities that offer an expression of the Christian faith to help our residents who are seeking to deepen their relationship to Jesus Christ or to draw on their faith during their healing journey. Some of these opportunities include bible studies, attending church services, prayer groups, journaling, teaching classes and mentoring, fellowship and lay-counseling.

In the past 18 years of serving the homeless and those struggling with addiction, we’ve found that meeting the spiritual needs of our residents is a fundamental key to their healing journey.

If you are involved in a Direct-Service opportunity where faith is a component, you will be asked to sign a Statement of Faith and Code of Conduct. You will also receive additional training on how to express your Christian faith in the context of trauma informed care.

We also have opportunities for individuals and groups that are more focused on helping create a beautiful space for our residents in the form of designing rooms, creating wellness spaces, and maintaining campus services for our residents.