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SUGGESTED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

SVSS Volunteers for Hotline and Advocacy

  1. Describe some of your life, educational and/or work experiences that may be helpful to your work as a sexual assault volunteer.
  1. In what other activities outside of school and work are you involved?
  1. What qualities, expertise, or other skills do you have that may be helpful in your work with sexual assault victims and survivors?
  1. What are your best relationship skills and other assets that would be of benefit in this work?
  1. What are your greatest challenges?
  1. Are you a survivor of sexual assault? If so, please explain….how will it support your work?
  1. Are you a survivor of emotional abuse? If so, please explain.….how will it support your work?
  1. If you are a survivor, did you seek and follow through with counseling
  1. Have you received counseling or other support services?
  1. Have you perpetrated any form of sexual abuse, harassment or assault?
  1. It is important that our volunteers attend and are on time for all scheduled training sessions and volunteer shifts? Are there any obligations for your time that would prevent commitment to the YWCA, and what would these be?
  1. Did you receive a degree in a field related to this work?
  1. Do you have any concerns about the training or volunteering? What might they be?
  1. How do you take care of yourself during stressful times?
  1. Do you believe that victims may sometimes be responsible for their assault? What do you think of that view? How did you form your own viewpoint?”
  1. While working with victims of rape, pregnancy is often a concern for our clients. “Thus, if a frightened victim voices concern about a potential “rape pregnancy,” how would you respond?
  1. As a volunteer, you will be required to offer non-judgmental emotional support for our clients, regardless of their race, cultural background, gender and sexual orientation. Do you foresee any barriers to providing this type of support? What are these barriers?
  1. “What the most severe crisis that you experienced in your life?” And if that crisis response doesn’t have to do with assault, then go into: Have you ever known anyone who has been assaulted?
  1. What questions do you have?

Adrienne Kostreva and Jody Moran, Jackson Lewis File: # 4819-9554-4343, v. 1