A friend of mine needs to do a good bit of community service between now and march (~75 hours). She was telling me yesterday that she was having a really hard time finding someplace that will let her do it with an assult charge. Anyone have any ideas?

11/29/2011 9:14:00 AM

SPCA? As long as she didn't assault puppies lol.

Or the Public Library. They seem to take anyone for community service.

11/29/2011 9:18:35 AM

She told me she checked the library and they said not with an assult charge

The hours to volenteer with the SPCA were only from 8am-12 or something and she couldn't swing that with work

11/29/2011 10:02:03 AM

Dang really? I guess they're afraid she'll throw books at patrons or something lol.

Has she tried the Food Bank and the Salvation Army already?

She could also try calling TROSA: http://www.trosainc.org/contact/index.htm While I'll don't think they have anything she can do within their organization, I wouldn't be surprised if they know of organizations in the Triangle she could do service with that won't care about her assault charge. I imagine they get people like that going through the program regularly.

11/29/2011 10:17:14 AM

Wake County Animal Shelter?

Carolina Tiger Rescue?

11/29/2011 10:18:27 AM

Call some folks on an adopt a highway sign and see if they'll let her pick up trash. No human contact involved since the cushy community service jobs aren't biting on an assault charge.

11/29/2011 10:18:29 AM

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11/29/2011 10:27:30 AM

Try something related to Habitat. A co-worker of mine spent several weekends building various structures with them after beating his girlfriend to within an inch of her life.

11/29/2011 10:31:11 AM

^^^ Not a bad idea.

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11/29/2011 10:40:00 AM

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"Has she tried the Food Bank and the Salvation Army already? "

She tried the food bank and got a NO and I told her to contact Salvation Army, esp this time of year.


Trash, tigers, and habitat. Good ideas

11/29/2011 10:47:38 AM

People find out about Jen curb stompin' fools ITT.

11/29/2011 10:50:19 AM

"Assault charge, huh? Welp, here's a hammer."

11/29/2011 11:15:42 AM

lol that was my thought too. "Here have all these tools you can assault people with."

11/29/2011 11:28:03 AM

hi jen! i miss your face and miss hanging out with you.

anyways, try Lake Johnson ... they have CS available all year

[Edited on November 29, 2011 at 11:33 AM. Reason : i did about 8 hours there once and it was the best CS ever]

11/29/2011 11:33:36 AM

PM incoming

11/29/2011 11:52:53 AM

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""Assault charge, huh? Welp, here's a hammer.""

just choked on lunch

11/29/2011 12:25:48 PM

Something tells me I should be concerned

11/29/2011 12:43:24 PM

no concern, she's very sweet and lovely

11/29/2011 12:54:39 PM

haha....nah, was just kidding....its great here, really laid back

11/29/2011 1:03:50 PM

But don't get on her wrong side or she'll shank you.

11/29/2011 1:03:54 PM

Tell her to wear a Garner Trojan shirt though

11/29/2011 1:04:49 PM

^^ LOL!

11/29/2011 1:05:23 PM

I did 100 hours up at the food bank off wolfpack drive (off atlantic & highwoods). They pretty much don't care what your offense was and the guy who heads it up is pretty chill. IIRC they were open 9-4 every day including saturday.

11/29/2011 1:14:34 PM

sounds like she is making excuses. the SPCA has volunteers 7 days a week.

11/29/2011 4:00:53 PM

Are these court ordered hours? If so, why did her coordinator at the community service office in the courthouse not assign her a location?

11/29/2011 4:24:55 PM

We had some CS people work with us at Pullen Park a couple of times, but Lake Johnson is the main CS location for Parks and Rec. Cake job.

11/29/2011 4:33:04 PM

I guess it was the shelter that she called and only had daytime hours. I just talked to her and she got in at the SPCA and is going to do her work there

11/29/2011 4:37:35 PM

^^^ Ya if they are court ordered they should be assigning them.

11/29/2011 11:15:21 PM

TROSA has been running a few Christmas Tree places around. I know there's one in Chapel Hill and one in Durham. I dunno if you can do community service at the tree places, but it'd be worth a shot.

11/29/2011 11:19:57 PM

Helping Hand Mission. They'll take anyone.

11/30/2011 3:42:12 AM

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"Are these court ordered hours? If so, why did her coordinator at the community service office in the courthouse not assign her a location?"

This

Or at the very least they should be able to provide her with a list of places to choose from.

11/30/2011 10:47:33 AM

our injustice system doesn't give a fuck about the untoucha-...I mean "convicts"

11/30/2011 11:40:17 AM