APPENDIX C: SCREENING QUESTIONS FOR VOLUNTEERS

2003

1. What brings you to this work? Or Why do you want to do this work?
2. How did you find out about COSA?
3. Do you have any previous experience with this type of work?
4. Are you presently in a relationship with anyone currently under sentence?
5. Is there a member of your family currently under sentence?
6. Are you presently on the visitors list at an institution?
7. Have you ever been the victim of a violent crime or trauma?
8. If you have been the victim of a violent crime or trauma, what have you done, or what are you doing, to take care of yourself or resolve this?
9. How long have you lived in this community?
10. To what other organizations do you belong?
11. What do you do to provide balance in your life?
12. What do you understand by the term "personal boundaries"? Do you have a sense of what your boundaries are?
13. Is there a particular kind of offender with whom you would not like to work?
14. Volunteers will be required to attend training sessions over the next few months. Will you be able to attend training sessions?
15. This project will require a commitment of several hours a week or more, especially when a new core member comes to your COSA, and perhaps a commitment of several years. Will you be able to commit to that time?
16. COSA is looking for people who will be able to commit to the project for two or more years. Are you able to do that?
17. Would you call yourself a team-player, or do you like to work alone?
18. This project will be concerned, among other things, with confidentiality. If a core member told you that he had something important to tell you, but that you had to promise not to tell anyone, how would you respond?
19. This program will be concerned, among other things, with community safety. You will need to work as part of a team that includes that includes 4 - 7 others. How do you see this in light of your role as a volunteer?