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Part Time Sales Associate at Seeds of Hope

Part Time Sales Associate at Seeds of Hope

Job Title: Store Associate
Reports To: Store Manager
Time Requirement: Part-Time | 20-30 Hours/Week | Non-Exempt
Location: Seeds of Hope

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Assist in the day to day operations and provide customer service.

GENERAL  

  • Assist in hanging or pulling clothing, stocking shelves as needed.
  • Assist customers as needed.
  • Maintain high standards of merchandise quality.
  • Insure all merchandise is priced appropriately and clean before hitting sales floor.
  • Report to store manager when supplies are low.
  • Communicate with store manager and assistant manager regarding staff and volunteer personnel concerns.
  • Prevent, identify, and remove discriminatory barriers in services provided.  
  • Understands department objectives and how they relate to the goals of the agency.  

CULTURAL INCLUSIVITY  

  • Recognize that we hold attitudes and beliefs that can detrimentally influence our perceptions of and interactions with individuals who are diverse from ourselves.    
  • Recognize the importance of multicultural sensitivity, responsiveness to, knowledge of, and understanding about diversity.  
  • Apply the principles of multiculturalism and diversity in training and staff development.  
  • Apply culturally appropriate skills in all interactions with clients, co-workers, volunteers, partner agencies, and other community members.  
  • Use organizational change processes to support culturally informed organizational policies & procedures.    

OTHER  

  • Commit to AARC’s organizational mission, vision, and operating philosophy.  
  • Attend staff and other relevant meetings, trainings, and in-services as assigned.  
  • Other duties and projects as requested by supervisor or Executive Director.   

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.   Understands and maintains a strong commitment to the goals of the Abused Adult Resource Center. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

  • Two years relevant experience 
  • Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered 
  • Displays a positive attitude, works well with others, and accepts direction well.  
  • Excellent organizational, communication (verbal and written).
  • Able to work well in stressful circumstance. 
  • Ability to lift and carry twenty-five pounds on a daily basis.
  • Ability to empathize, encourage and guide.  
  • Available to work weekends when necessary.   
  • Must be willing to complete background checks.  
  • Ability to read, write and speak English.  

The following experience/knowledge is not required but helpful:  

  • Previous experience working with volunteers.  

The AARC is an equal opportunity employer.

 

Child Care Worker

Child Care Worker

Job Title: Childcare Provider
Reports To: Child Advocate
Time Requirement: 15+ Hours/Week | Non-Exempt
Location: Pam’s House

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The Childcare Provider will assist staff and residents by preparing meals/snacks for children, maintaining their hygiene, monitoring them for health, behavioral, and emotional concerns, providing them with age-appropriate instruction and working to ensure that children are learning and socializing in a positive way. They may also assist with sterilizing toys and play areas and other duties to ensure that the children are in a safe, engaging, and clean environment.

PROGRAMS & CLIENT SERVICES:  

  • Providing care for children, such as feeding, changing diapers, and cleaning rooms and toys.
  • Developing and encouraging age-appropriate learning and socialization to ensure children learn basic skills and concepts, such as communication, manners, sharing, etc.
  • Maintaining a safe place by monitoring children for health, behavioral, and emotional issues and reporting concerns to staff and parents.
  • Ensuring children are learning positive behaviors and providing guidance or approved discipline, as needed.

RECORD KEEPING  

  • Keeping records relating to child care.
  • Communicates and follows up on necessary information.  

GENERAL  

  •   Treats residents with respect, dignity, and empathy.  
  •   Prevent, identify, and remove discriminatory barriers in services       provided.  

CULTURAL INCLUSIVITY  

  • Recognize that we hold attitudes and beliefs that can detrimentally influence our perceptions of and interactions with individuals who are diverse from ourselves.    
  • Recognize the importance of multicultural sensitivity, responsiveness to, knowledge of, and understanding about diversity.  
  • Apply the principles of multiculturalism and diversity in training and staff development.  
  • Apply culturally appropriate skills in all interactions with residents, co-workers, volunteers, partner agencies, and other community members.  

OTHER  

  • Commit to AARC’s organizational mission, vision, and operating philosophy.  
  • Attend staff and other relevant meetings, trainings, and in-services as assigned.  
  • Other duties and projects as requested by supervisor or Executive Director.    

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.   The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

  • Decisiveness, patience, and stamina to chase after, lift, or carry children.
  • Knowledge of sexual assault and domestic violence issues
  • Record of immunizations and ability to pass a background check.
  • Attentiveness to the needs and safety of children.
  • Displays a positive attitude, works well with others, and accepts direction well.  
  • Ability to empathize, encourage and guide.  
  • Ability to read, write and speak English.  

SALARY RANGE

$13.00/hour Dependent on training, education and experience.


The AARC is an equal opportunity employer.

A Simple Way to Support AARC

A Simple Way to Support AARC

Enrolling In Target Circle

Guests in participating markets can enroll in the Giving Program for free. There are three easy ways to sign up for Target Circle:

1. Sign up at target.com/circle

2. Download the Target app

3. Provide phone number at checkout

Earning Votes

Guests earn one vote every time they make an eligible purchase at Target, online and in-store. In this regard, it’s not your typical voting program. Members earn votes as they shop at Target.

Earning Votes In Store: At checkout, a Target Guest may scan her/his Wallet barcode in the Target App at the time of purchase, or scan the barcode on her/his receipt with the Target App within seven (7) days of purchase.

Earning Votes Online: To earn a vote on a Target.com or Target App purchase, a Target guest must have joined Target Circle and be signed into their Target.com account when they place an order.

Some purchases are not eligible to accrue votes. See terms and conditions for ineligible purchases.

Casting Votes

Casting votes is a completely digital experience. A Target guest may login to their Target account at target.com or on the mobile app and follow the prompts and instructions to vote. Nonprofits will display in a list with each organization’s name, logo, mission, and website link.

We are still here for services during this extraordinary time

We are still here for services during this extraordinary time

Here is an update on the Abused Adult Resource Center’s services on May 15 at 10:00am:

Crisis line: Staffed 24/7 at 1-866-341-7009

Main office: Staffed but not open to the public. Please call the office at 222-8370 or the crisis line at 1-866-341-7009.

Family Safety Center: The Family Safety Center is available by appointment only at this time. 

Seeds of Hope: The store is open Monday – Saturday from 9:30am to 5:00pm. Donations are accepted at the dock on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9:30am to 5:00pm. 

It is our goal to continue to provide services to the community as best as we can. Stay healthy everyone!

We are still here for services during this extraordinary time

We Are Open!

AARC is committed to ensuring those experiencing interpersonal violence continue to feel supported on their paths to safety & healing. Our office will be open as usual. However, we are canceling all support groups this week. We would like to encourage clients to call the office, rather than come in if at all possible. You can reach us at 701-222-8370 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Our 24/7 help line also remains available at 1-866-341-7009. We are continually assessing the local situation during this national pandemic and will provide updates here with any additional changes.

Seeds of Hope also remains open and will continue at this time to accept donations.

Leingang receives AARC award posthumously

Leingang receives AARC award posthumously

The Abused Adult Resource Center (AARC) posthumously presented the Sgt. Steven Kenner Lifesaver Award to Paul Leingang, former deputy chief of the Mandan Police Department, who died in 2017 from cancer.

The award was presented to Leingang’s widow, Kelly, and two children during the AARC annual meeting Wednesday in Bismarck. During his 37-year career at the department, Leingang’s work with AARC and victims of abuse served as a model for law enforcement.

AARC presents the award annually to a law enforcement officer who has shown exemplary work with victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the past year. Known previously as the Lifesaver Award, it was renamed to honor the Bismarck policeman who was killed in the line of duty in July 2011.

During the annual meeting, Candace Muggerud, CEO of KAT Marketing, was elected to the AARC Board while board member Mike Lund, relief sales support at Bimbo Bakeries, was re-elected also to a three-year term. Another board position was not filled, and the vacancy will be addressed by the Board of Directors at a later date.

Honored for their longtime service as board members were Aruna Seth, Justin Currie and Tamara Barber. All three chose not to seek re-election this year.

Greg Gunderson, retired CEO of Investment Centers of America, Inc., was re-elected board chair. Other officers re-elected were: vice chair, Shawna Piatz, Chief Auditor, North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System; and treasurer, Dave Clark, retired Executive Vice President, Bismarck State College. Christine Hogan, staff attorney for the North Dakota Protection and Advocacy Project, was elected board secretary.

Other board members are Kevin Stadler, senior vice president for commercial lending at BNC National Bank; and Bruce Haskell, retired District Judge.

AARC is a Bismarck-based nonprofit serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and their families in a seven-county area in south-central North Dakota.

20 officers earn AARC’s ‘Badge of Hope’

20 officers earn AARC’s ‘Badge of Hope’

Twenty members of the Bismarck and Mandan police departments have earned the Badge of Hope Award from the Abused Adult Resource Center (AARC) for their efforts in the second half of 2019.

The Badge of Hope is an award given by the AARC to a law enforcement officer in recognition of service above and beyond normal duty to victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Recipients are eligible for AARC’s annual Lifesaver Award.

“We are grateful for the work that these and other officers from area law enforcement do for survivors of abuse in this region,” said Michelle Erickson, AARC Executive Director. “It speaks to both the dedication of law enforcement and to our relationship in this effort.”

Honored from the Bismarck Police Department were the following staff members:
Joey Olsen, Taylor Roman, Wade Nordick, Michael Mehrer, Mark Gaddis, Kevin Thorson, Maggie Masset, Lane Master and Brandon Rask.

From the Mandan Police Department, those honored were: Mike Wood, Dylan McAlexander, Angel Beltran, Bruce Tessness, Nick Pynnonen, Brandon Hauck, Pete Czapiewski, Garrett Stepp, Mary Hamilton, Trish Schmeichel and Leo Belgarde.

The AARC is a private nonprofit that serves victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their families in a seven-county area in south-central North Dakota.

Human Resources Generalist

Human Resources Generalist

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This is a multifaceted position responsible for providing human resource operations. This position reports directly to the Executive Director but also collaborates with the Financial Manager and Development Director.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

  • Manage the staffing process, including recruiting, interviewing, hiring and onboarding.
  • Ensure job descriptions are up to date and compliant with all local, state and federal regulations.
  • Develop training materials and performance management programs to help ensure employees understand their job responsibilities.
  • Create a compensations strategy for all employees based on market research and pay surveys; keeps the strategy up to date.
  • Investigate employee issues and conflicts and brings them to resolution.
  • Ensure the organization’s compliance with local, state and federal regulations.
  • Revise personnel policies and procedures.
  • Develop an on-boarding process and tools.
  • Review benefit package and make recommendations.
  • Develop recruitment process and tools.
  • Maintain employee personnel files.

QUALIFICATIONS

A bachelor’s degree in a human resources or equivalent work/life experience is preferred with licensure when applicable. Hours will generally be 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday. Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to complete tasks with minimal supervision, ability to maintain confidentiality, and basic computer skills required. Ability and willingness to work as a team with diversified staff, volunteers and constituents, and ability to work independently and as part of team to deliver services required as well.
Use of a personal vehicle for agency business; will be reimbursed according to agency policy. Valid North Dakota State Driver’s License required. Benefits include: Health Insurance, Retirement plan, Life Insurance. Salary range $45,000 -$50,000/year.

Submit resume and cover letter to Michelle Erickson at [email protected].

Hope for the Holidays

Hope for the Holidays

Through the generosity of the community, the Abused Adult Resource Center’s “Hope for the Holidays” program each year helps families who have been victimized by violence by providing gifts at Christmas.

Monetary donations are needed and welcome, according to Kayce Loraas, child advocate who coordinates the program with Keyona Pratt and Kim Caswell. Other needs include:

• Gift cards for women’s clothing
• Walmart gift cards
• Grocery store gift cards
• Gas gift cards
• Prepaid phone cards (Verizon, Straight Talk, Tracfone)
• GameStop gift cards, movie or bowling passes for older kids
• New toys and games for children ages up to 16

Starting Dec. 5, donations will be taken from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until Dec. 19 at AARC’s Hope for the Holidays space at the Northbrook Mall, 1929 N. Washington Street. Bring donations to door 3 and Suite HH on the east side of the mall.

“We are grateful to Northbrook Mall and Goldmark Schlossman Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc. for providing the space for our program,” said Michelle Erickson, AARC Executive Director. “Having an adequate site is important to successfully providing families with gifts and donations from Hope for the Holidays.”

AARC’s Christmas store opens Friday, Oct. 25

AARC’s Christmas store opens Friday, Oct. 25

The Myrt Armstrong Christmas store in the Abused Adult Resource Center’s Seeds of Hope Thrift and Gift Store opens this Friday, Oct. 25.

The Christmas store premiere is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., on Friday, with the entire store also open until 8 p.m.

The store is named in honor of the late Myrt Armstrong, who originated the idea of the Christmas store.

Located in the lower level of the Seeds of Hope, 520 E. Main, the Christmas store features a vast assortment of unique holiday gifts and decorations. Dorinda Eckroth, assistant store manager, said the Christmas store includes all sizes of Christmas trees, Nativity scenes, home goods, wreaths, vintage decorations, lights, yard decorations, linens, gift bags/wrapping, floral, ornaments and many other one-of-a-kind holiday items. If you have interest in Pinterest, then Seeds of Hope is the place for you, she said.

New items are added daily. Donations of holiday items are appreciated now and throughout the year.

The Christmas store’s normal hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday through the end of the holiday season.

Volunteers are needed for the store, especially on Saturdays, helping with displays, customer service and cashiering, according to Lisa Ternes, store manager. Volunteers can come in part of a day, not necessarily the whole day, she said. Anyone interested in volunteering at the store should call 222-8895 for Dorinda.

Sales proceeds from the Christmas store and the Seeds of Hope are used by the AARC in its mission to serve victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children in a seven-county area in south-central North Dakota.

Judge Haskell named to AARC Board

Judge Haskell named to AARC Board

Retired South Central District Judge Bruce Haskell has been named a member of the Abused Adult Resource Center (AARC) Board of Directors.

Judge Haskell was appointed recently by the AARC Board of Directors to replace Aruna Seth, who resigned for personal reasons. She had been on the AARC Board since 2007.

Greg Gunderson, AARC Board Chair, said the board appreciates Aruna’s dedication and long service. “She has been a valuable member for many years, and we are sad to see her go,” he said. Meanwhile, he said, Judge Haskell will be a welcome addition to the board.

Judge Haskell, who has his law degree from the University of North Dakota, served as assistant state’s attorneys in both Morton and Burleigh counties before being elected South Central District Judge in 1994, serving until his retirement in December 2018. Earlier this year, he was presented AARC’s 25th annual Love Without Fear Award for his understanding – both professionally and personally – of what victims were experiencing.

Other board members include vice chair Shawna Piatz, Chief Auditor, North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System; secretary Tamara Barber, business consultant; treasurer Dave Clark, retired Executive Vice President, Bismarck State College; Kevin Stadler, senior vice president for commercial lending, BNC National Bank; Mike Lund, relief sales support, Bimbo Bakeries; Justin Currie, vice president-corporate controller, BNC National Bank; and Christine Hogan, attorney for the North Dakota Protection and Advocacy Project.

20 officers earn AARC’s ‘Badge of Hope’

25 officers earn AARC’s ‘Badge of Hope’

Twenty-five staffs with law enforcement agencies in the Bismarck-Mandan area and surrounding counties earned the Badge of Hope Award from the Abused Adult Resource Center (AARC) for the first half of 2019.

The Badge of Hope is an award given by the AARC to a law enforcement officer in recognition of service to victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Recipients are eligible for AARC’s annual Lifesaver Award given during National Peace Officers’ Week.

Honored from the Bismarck Police Department were the following staff members: Scarlett Vetter, Mark Gaddis, Zachary Collins, Michael Renton, Brett Anderson, Thomas Grosz, Taylor Roman, John Lahr, April McCarthy, Jerry Stein and Adam Lane.

From the Mandan Police Department, staff members honored were Dylan McAlexander, Riley Gentzkow, Mike Kapella, Mike Wood, Dominick Hanson, Garrett Stepp, Tyler Henry, Angel Beltran, Beth Kohler, Michael Bried, and Trish Schmeichel.

Other earning honors were Daniel Anderson of the Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department, Lori Dirk of the Morton County Sheriff’s Department and Chad Harmon from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Join our team for Prevention with Green Dot

Join our team for Prevention with Green Dot

Do you want to be part of ending violence in our community? Well, we would love to have you join us. We need a team to participate in bystander training and return to our community to implement Green Dot.

Apply here! Green Dot BisMan Individual Application

What is Green Dot?

Green Dot seeks to engage community members as Active Bystanders to fill their community with Green Dots. Enough Green Dots will create culture change.

Green Dot Bystander Trainings teach community members to use the 3 Ds when you see a concerning behavior (Red Dot) – Direct, Delegate and Distract.

Green Dot also recognizes people’s barriers to intervening and teaches it doesn’t matter what Green Dot you do; the most important thing is to do something that feels realistic to you.

Apply here! Green Dot BisMan Individual Application

Join our team for Prevention with Green Dot

Sexual violence prevention program coming to Bismarck-Mandan

BISMARCK, N.D. – The North Dakota Department of Health’s (NDDoH) Rape Prevention and Education Program is expanding Green Dot, a sexual violence primary prevention strategy, to the Bismarck-Mandan area. The Abused Adult Resource Center (AARC) in Bismarck will lead implementation of the program.

Green Dot seeks to engage all members of the community as bystanders who can identify behaviors that lead to harm (red dots) and respond in a way that will make it less likely the harm occurs or gets worse (green dots). It focuses on the actions everyone can take on a daily basis to set a new norm that violence is not tolerated, and everyone is expected to do their part in contributing to a safer community.

“We are very excited for the opportunity to launch new and innovative prevention efforts in Bismarck-Mandan,” said Michelle Erickson, AARC Executive Director. “We have long had a commitment to end violence in our community and this program will allow us to build on that work and expand our network of allies. We look forward to recruiting community members to join our efforts of implementing Green Dot in Bismarck-Mandan.”

AARC provides crisis intervention, advocacy and shelter to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and human trafficking in Burleigh, Morton, Grant, Sioux, Emmons, Kidder and Sheridan counties. In addition to intervention services, AARC has a commitment to preventing violence in the communities it serves.

AARC will be recruiting a diverse team of community members to attend a four-day certification training in August. Green Dot is not only for crisis and violence prevention workers, it is for anyone interested in creating a safer community. If you would like to learn how you can support Green Dot efforts in Bismarck-Mandan, contact Renee Stromme at AARC at 701-222-8370.

APPLY HERE! Green Dot BisMan Individual Application

“It is exciting to have received increased funding for prevention,” said Mallory Sattler, Domestic Violence/Rape Crisis Program Coordinator with the NDDoH. “I’m grateful for the efforts of legislators and prevention advocates for acknowledging and acting on the need in our state.”

Rape and Abuse Crisis Center (Fargo), Community Violence Intervention Center (Grand Forks) and Abused Persons Outreach Center (Valley City) have been implementing Green Dot in their communities since April 2018. They have hosted several bystander trainings and are preparing for launch events and social media marketing. For more information, contact Mallory Sattler, NDDoH, at 701-328-4562.