Washington DC

List of Placement Organizations

• Bread for the City provides food, clothing, medical care, social services, and legal assistance to over 8,000 vulnerable residents of Washington, DC each month.
  AVODAH provides a Legal Clinic Coordinator and a Medical Clinic Coordinator to Bread for the City.
• The Capital Area Immigration Rights (CAIR) Coalition brings immigrants, attorneys, volunteers, and community leaders together to work for a fair and humane immigration policy.
  AVODAH provides a Legal Assistant for the Detention Project at the CAIR Coalition.
• CASA of Maryland assists Latino immigrants and refugees of modest means with finding work, learning necessary skills, accessing available resources, and building a strong community.
  AVODAH provides a Legal Assistant to CASA of Maryland.
• The DC Central Kitchen is dedicated to strengthening bodies by safely recovering un-served food from local foodservice businesses to feed children and adults throughout the greater Washington, DC area. It also empowers minds by providing culinary job training and community service opportunities for youth and adults.
  AVODAH provides a Healthy Returns Coordinator to the DC Central Kitchen.
• The DC Employment Justice Center secures and enforces the rights of low-income workers in the Washington DC metropolitan area.
  AVODAH provides a Southeast Workers’ Rights Clinic and Advocacy Coordinator to the Employment Justice Center.
• DC SCORES empowers students in urban communities using soccer, writing, creative expression, and service-learning.
  AVODAH provides a Program Coordinator to DC SCORES.
• IONA Senior Services is dedicated to enabling older people to live with dignity and independence. Through its professional staff, corps of volunteers and close collaboration with other organizations, IONA provides services and access to programs designed to meet the needs of seniors and their families. 
  AVODAH provides a Community Programs Specialist to IONA Senior Services.
  
• For Love of Children works to transform DC’s response to child abuse, homelessness, and educational failure so that children are protected and nurtured, homeless families are financially stable and housed, and high-risk teens are prepared to be responsible and successful adults.
  AVODAH provides a Neighborhood Tutoring Program Assistant to FLOC.
• La Clínica Del Pueblo, a bilingual, culturally competent, free community health clinic, provides primary care, mental health and substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, interpreter service, social services as well as health education and outreach, and free health services in the Latino community.
  AVODAH provides an Entitlements Case Manager to La Clínica.
• Metro TeenAIDS provides resources to help young people fight HIV/AIDS and support each other.
  AVODAH provides an Outreach and Education Specialist to Metro TeenAIDS.
• N Street Village offers a continuum of care through day and residential programs assisting women to move from homelessness to independent living, and to deal with issues of substance abuse and mental illness.
  AVODAH provides a Wellness Center and Residential Assistant to N Street Village.
• Sitar Arts Center provides young people in its inner-city community the opportunity to discover their gifts in the visual and performing arts. The Center's programs are built on knowledge that exposure to the arts dramatically enhances learning skills, cognitive development, social awareness and self esteem.                                                                                             AVODAH provides a Student Outreach and Services Intern to Sitar Arts Center.
  
• So Others Might Eat exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation's capital by meeting the immediate daily needs such as food, clothing, and health care. SOME helps break the cycle of homelessness by offering services, such as affordable housing, job training, addiction treatment, and counseling, to the poor, the elderly and individuals with mental illness.    
  AVODAH provides a Training Facilitator/Recreation Coordinator to SOME.
• The Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School prepares traditionally underserved students to be academically able, confident, and empowered.
  AVODAH provides a Program Associate to the Thurgood Marshall Academy.
• Washington, DC Jewish Community Center’s Behrend Builders Program teaches volunteers to repair, rebuild, and renovate low-income houses, homeless shelters, community centers, and other vital community facilities.
  AVODAH provides a Behrend Builders Coordinator to the DCJCC.
• Women Empowered Against Violence works closely with adult and teen survivors of relationship violence and abuse, providing an innovative range of legal, counseling, economic and educational services that leads survivors to utilize their inner and community resources, achieve safety for themselves and their children and live empowered lives.  
  VODAH provides a Civil Intake Counselor/Teen Dating Violence Trainer and a Community Outreach Coordinator to Women Empowered Against Violence.

This list is intended to give you an idea of the type of position you might have while in AVODAH. This is not the full or final list of potential positions available. Position and placment descriptions vary from year to year.