Volunteer Agreement
Volunteer Agreement
RUR Values
As an active volunteer of Rise Up Recovery, you agree to abide by the rules and regulations of Rise Up Recovery (as outlined in this document), and to fulfill your volunteer responsibilities to the best of your ability. As a volunteer you are to uphold and display the following values of Rise Up Recovery during your volunteer service:
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Respect: We honor and respect each person as a resource and support them as they find and follow their individual pathways of recovery.
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Integrity: We live with personal integrity to align our inner and outer lives. We respond to each opportunity to heal our past wounds and trauma as to be instruments of grace for others.
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Strengths & Service: We focus on strengths and service, serving others wholeheartedly while fostering and encouraging personal strengths. We build on strengths while forgiving our humanness, which promotes change.
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Efforts & Excellence: Every day, we put our best effort into our work, relationships, wellness, and self by striving to do everything within the standard of excellence.
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Unity: We are stronger together -- Unity and connection are of utmost importance to healing. Connection has transformative power.
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Pursue wellness and Recovery: We believe in always pursuing wellness and recovery in any area of our lives. With a willingness to lean into discomfort, we model and move toward healing and growth.
Mandatory Reporting
During your volunteering at Rise Up Recovery you will be interacting with vulnerable adults and children. Due to these interactions, you must report any suspected maltreatment (abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation) of these vulnerable individuals to Rise Up Recovery staff, as outlined in the “Mandatory Reporter” training module.
Failure to report suspected maltreatment of vulnerable adults may result in legal penalties, ranging from a misdemeanor to a gross misdemeanor (Sec. 609.234 MN Statutes).
Confidentiality
During your time as a volunteer, you will be interacting with RUR participants regardless of your volunteering role. Understand that the recovery participants may share personal information, stories, or other information pertaining to their lives. As a volunteer, you must promise to uphold the confidentiality rules and regulations as outlined below:
Federal Regulations state that all former, current, and future participants of Rise Up Recovery may not have their data, health, treatment, or personal information disclosed to anyone outside of Rise Up Recovery unless proper written authorization is first obtained from the participant. The only exceptions being if written consent is obtained, a court order is being pursued, disclosure is made to medical staff in an emergency, or it is required in certain situations by the Veterans Administration and Armed Forces (Title 42 C.F.R. Part 2).
Any type of violation of Title 42 C.F.R. Part 2 by a Rise Up Recovery staff member or volunteer is a crime, and any violations will be reported to the appropriate authorities in accordance with Title 42.
Boundaries
When interacting with participants, you must adhere to the following boundaries in regulation with Rise Up Recovery’s Guidelines:
(i) You are not to have any sexual or romantic contact with Rise Up Recovery participants.
(ii) You are not to have any private social media contact (direct messaging) with Rise Up Recovery participants.
(iii) You are not to offer or give rides to Rise Up Recovery participants.
(iiii) You are not to accept any money or gifts from Rise Up Recovery participants.
By checking the "I agree with the organization's policies" box, I hereby agree to uphold the values and guidelines of Rise Up Recovery, and to uphold the applicable laws and regulations in the Minnesota Statutes, as outlined above. Failure to adhere to these laws and regulations may result in misdemeanor charges and a possible dismissal from volunteer services with Rise Up Recovery.
