Community Action Partnership of Riverside County offers volunteer opportunities and welcomes volunteers to help with a wide variety of activities. Volunteering can provide valuable job experience, keep your skills sharp, and keep learning competitive skills. Our goal is to have a better community with people helping people.
Dispute Resolution
Volunteer Mediators facilitate communication, promote understanding, focuses parties on their interest, and seeks creative problem-solving approaches to enable the parties to reach their own agreement. Volunteers gain valuable experience mediating cases at courts throughout the Riverside County Superior Courts system and mediating community cases throughout Riverside County. Volunteers are required to complete Basic Mediation training and become Certified Mediators.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) provides FREE tax preparation that helps filers access the tax credits & refunds they are entitled to. There are FREE VITA sites throughout Riverside County. Sites are staffed by VITA volunteers representing Community Action Partnership of Riverside County. Volunteers are required to go through IRS training and become IRS VITA certified. Tax preparation sites are open from January through April, with some sites open year-round.
The expectation for this program is that, after completing the onboarding process and certification, you will commit to providing 40 hours of volunteer service during the tax season. There are incentive awards for additional volunteer hours exceeding 100 hours, which can be earned through any committed service outside of the tax season for our program.