Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteers are essential to our mission and make it possible for us to serve every client with excellence. To join our team as a volunteer, there is a 4-part process: attend one orientation meeting (scheduled quarterly), complete an application, participate in an interview, and train for the specific volunteer role.  Volunteers are needed in the following ministry areas:

Medical Services

(All positions require a commitment to serve one shift per week, a minimum of 3 hours)

  • Receptionist
    • Purpose: To maintain a secure professional environment and serve as the first impression and welcome of Ascend Women’s Center.  
  • Advocate
    • Purpose: To provide process and spiritual leadership with excellence - offering truth, spoken in love and peace of mind, to women facing the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy to empower her with critical, life-saving information.
  • Nurse
    • Purpose: To provide medical services and information based on the established patient process.
  • Sonographer
    • Purpose: To practice limited ultrasounds within the established patient process.

Support Services

  • Parenting Mentor – (must commit to serve one shift per week, a minimum of 3 hours)
    • Purpose: To provide mentorship, practical advice, compassionate support, and spiritual guidance to clients enrolled in the parenting program.
  • Parenting Class Facilitator
    • Purpose: To facilitate and lead instructional classes for clients in the parenting program.
  • Post-abortion Healing Facilitator
    • Purpose: To lead women through the healing process, helping them find forgiveness and freedom from the emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental impacts of abortion.
  • Perinatal Diagnosis Support Person
    • Purpose: To walk with families who have received a perinatal diagnosis, supporting them through  difficult decisions, helping create a birth plan, and coordinating necessary service.

Other

(As needed basis)

  • Community Events
    • Purpose: To represent Ascend Women’s Center at area events.

 

  • Fundraising Support
    • Purpose: To assist with fundraiser planning, logistics, set-up, and clean-up.

 

  • Facility Support
    • Purpose: To help with basic maintenance and landscaping projects.

For more information about volunteering, please contact Kris Straub
at 828-252-1306 or kstraub@ascendwc.org

Asheville

Hours of Operation:
  • Monday
    9:00am - 4:00pm
  • Tuesday
    9:00am - 4:00pm
  • Wednesday
    9:00am - 4:00pm
  • Thursday
    9:00am - 4:00pm


Waynesville

Hours of Operation:
  • Tuesday
    9:00am - 4:00pm
  • Wednesday
    9:00am - 4:00pm


We do not offer, recommend or refer for abortions or abortifacients, but are committed to offering accurate information about abortion procedures and risks.