WCC Staff Services
Staffs a telephone line with trained volunteers
Trained volunteers treat callers with respect and offer a listening ear and resources for resolving callers’ issues in areas such as:
Family matters
Counseling
Employment
Legal Issues
Education
Healthcare
Childcare
Housing.
The staff refers clients to community agencies and organizations.
Sponsors a legal clinic for self-represented litigants
Through the Family Law Project, monthly divorce clinics are offered for litigants who will be representing themselves in court in family law matters. At the clinics, volunteer attorneys provide one-on-one legal advice to participants.
Clinics are held the 4th Tuesday of each month a 5:30 PM. Reservations are required. $40 donation.
Conducts monthly divorce workshops
Non-legal divorce advice is also offered at monthly educational workshops, Dealing With Divorce, on the practical aspects of dealing with divorce and other family law issues
Workshops are held the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7 PM. $10 donation.
Collaborates with Real F.A.C.T.S. (Forum on Abused Children and “The System”)
Real F.A.C.T.S. is a grass roots advocacy group seeking to raise public awareness and interest in issues facing abused children and their caretakers within the county’s child welfare systems and the courts in order to bring about positive change.
Provides low cost supervised visitation monitors
Beginning in 2010, WCC will match trained community volunteers with parents requiring the services of a monitor when seeing their children in a divorce setting. Call 433-9313 for more information and how to sign up.
Courtwatches
Trained volunteers observe and document family law cases, sometimes randomly, sometimes upon request, during the mornings at the County Courthouse in San Luis Obispo. Courtwatching can be a moral support for someone in pro per (self-represented). It helps document cases and build a rapport with the courts with which we can advocate for change. Being a witness to what goes on in this arena can have an effect on the outcome of the case.
Produces the Women’s Press
The Women’s Press is a bi-monthly newspaper by, for, and about women in San Luis Obispo County. An all-volunteer staff offers articles on issues of special concern to women. The paper is a forum for creative writing, and includes a listing of volunteer opportunities and workshop and program information from local nonprofits that serve women. To view recent issues, visit womenspress-slo.org.