Volunteering - Crisis Text Line?

[idunnowhattonamemyself]

Hey all,

I was counting my volunteering hours and was wondering whether I should include volunteering through Crisis Text Line. Crisis Text Line is online volunteering done on your computer in the comfort of your own home, but I believe that it truly valuable as it reaches out to and helps individuals.

Without counting the text line hours, I will have approximately 150 volunteer hours. However, if I do count these hours, I will have around 350 hours, so I would love to include these hours. I don't know if I could because it isn't done in-person but through texts.

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[princeafrica]

How did you calculate those hours? Did you calculate the number of texts and/or conversations and how long they took?

 

[idunnowhattonamemyself]

How did you calculate those hours? Did you calculate the number of texts and/or conversations and how long they took?

We sign up for shifts each week, and each shift is approximately 2 hours. I aim to do 2 shifts a week (4 hours), but some weeks I get busy and take one shift.

 

[princeafrica]

Oh then why not? I would put it!

 

[Gordo014]

I also volunteered on the crisis textline and listed it on my application.

It came up several times in my interviews as well and the faculty seemed genuinely interested in it.

 

[TheDentalSchoolCoach]

150 hours seems just fine to me. But if you want to use the crisis hotline hours, that's fine as well.