Community Service Volunteer Policy
Beaches Habitat welcomes volunteers who are required by a court to do community service. To be eligible to use Beaches Habitat for Humanity as a source for completing community service your offense must fall into the acceptable category.
To complete your service you must:
- Call the Volunteer Coordinator at (904) 241-1222 to discuss your service requriements.
- Print and complete the acknowledgment form. The acknowledgment form must be submitted to the Volunteer Coordinator via fax, email or office visit before you register to volunteer. Please call (904) 241-1222 to schedule an office visit.
- Be sure that you have read and fully our understand our policies for verifying hours. Failure to comply with our policy may result in our staff being unable to verify your hours!
The following is a list of acceptable and unacceptable offenses:
| Acceptable Offenses | Unacceptable Offense |
|---|---|
| Contempt of Court – Child Support | Accepting Stolen Property |
| Contempt of Court – Other | Assault |
| Drugs | Battery |
| Fleeing | Conspiracy |
| Gathering without a permit | Conversion |
| No Drivers License | Destruction of Property |
| No tag on Vehicle or Expired Tag | Domestic Abuse |
| Open Container | False Police Reporting |
| Perjury | Fencing |
| Public Disturbance | Hate Crimes |
| Reckless Driving | Inciting a Riot |
| Suspended Drivers License | Murder |
| Traffic – Civil | Neglect |
| Trespassing | Pornography |
| Truancy | Prostitution |
| Worthless Checks | Resisting Arrest |
| ~ | Robbery |
| ~ | Sex Crimes |
| ~ | Theft |
If your specific offense falls into the unacceptable category, regardless of the magnitude, you cannot complete your community service with Beaches Habitat.
As a volunteer, you are responsible for the following:
Registration with the Volunteer Coordinator:
- You must contact the Volunteer Coordinator and submit an acknowledgement form prior to creating an account with Beaches Habitat for Humanity. You may be turned away from the construction site if you register without first speaking to the Volunteer Coordinator.
- You are required to register for each date you wish to complete hours. After speaking with the Volunteer Coordinator, begin by creating an account in VolunteerUp through the Beaches Habitat website. Once your account has been created, you can register for volunteer hours through the website or by contacting the Volunteer Coordinator. The Beaches Habitat Construction Department is closed on Sunday and Monday. You will not be able to call the Volunteer Coordinator on Monday to schedule work for Tuesday.
- You must complete a Waiver of Liability before beginning service. The Waiver of Liability can be found on the Beaches Habitat website and on VolunteerUp. Additionally, the form can be emailed to you or you can complete it after arriving at the construction site on your first day.
Daily Sign-in:
- Each morning, the Volunteer Coordinator will be at the construction site with a list of registered volunteers. You are required to find your name on the list and sign to verify that you arrived. Be sure to indicate the number of hours you plan to work on the sign-in sheet.
- Arrive on time. Some mornings, particularly Saturdays, can be very busy. You may have to wait in line to sign in. Arriving early will allow you to sign in without delaying the start of the work day.
Daily verification of completion of hours:
- Many referring agencies provide a form to track community service hours. You must bring this to the construction site each day you work. If one is not provided for you it is your responsibility to create one.
- At the completion of each work day, the Beaches Habitat staff or AmeriCorps member who supervised your work must sign your form to verify your completed hours.
Final Verification of hours:
- Following completion of your hours, submit your completed tracking form to the Volunteer Coordinator. The Volunteer Coordinator will compare your form with work site registration and daily sign in sheets. Only the Volunteer Coordinator may sign to verify completion of your full service requirement.
- If a verification letter is required, the Volunteer Coordinator will write a letter to the attention of the contact person at the referring agency based on your completed form.
- Please allow two business days for the completion of your verification letter. Keep in mind that the work schedule for the Construction Department is Tuesday through Saturday.
- If you did not sign in and do not have a signed record of your hours, you will not receive verification of those hours. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Beaches Habitat for Humanity reserves the following rights:
- Volunteers who are not registered to work may be turned away if the construction site is full. There are a maximum number of volunteers for the work site on each day.
- Volunteers who are registered to work have until 4pm the evening before to cancel a scheduled date. This can be done through the Beaches Habitat website or by calling the Volunteer Coordinator. After the second date that you are scheduled and do not show up, you will be removed from future volunteer dates and turned away from the construction site.
- You are required to follow the construction site and safety policies. This includes arriving on time, dressing appropriately, and NOT being under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
- You will be asked to leave the work site if your language or attitude is disruptive to construction site activities. In addition, you may be asked to leave if you are unproductive or in any way hinder the progress of construction site activities.
<table border="1"> <tr><th>Year</th><th>Sales</th></tr> <tr><td>2000</td><td>$18M</td></tr> <tr><td>2001</td><td>$25M</td></tr> <tr><td>2002</td><td>$36M</td></tr> </table>
