About HOPE Center

HOPE (Healing Outreach Prevention Education) Center provides resources and advocates for sexual assault survivors, battered women, and abused children.

  • Contact: Sunny Sun ’26
  • Location: The center is located in Faribault, but work is done remotely.
  • Join Time: In the spring or fall, depending on when training is completed.
  • Commitment: Weekly.

The HOPE Center is an advocacy and resource center for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, battered women, and abused children. Open-minded and caring volunteers are needed to answer crisis line calls, do community education at schools on violence issues, and work on numerous other projects including working with policy efforts and website update and design.

The Center encourages a diverse group of volunteers, including men and women, people of color, and members of the LGBT community. Forty hours of advocacy training is provided at no cost to volunteers twice a year, in the fall and in the winter/spring. The application is available below with details about the current training schedule.

Apply to be a SafeLine Volunteer

To apply, print and fill out this form, scan it, and send it via email to hopevolunteer@gmail.com, and please cc suns@carleton.edu.

The in-person training sessions will take place:

  • October 27–30 and November 3–7, 2025
  • 5:30pm–9:30pm on all days at Weitz 230

Contact Sunny Sun ’26 if you have any questions!

24-hour SafeLine: (800) 607-2330

The Safeline is available 24/7/365, and once Carleton students are trained, they often participate in this part of the process.