For confidentiality and safety, AWS staff members are not revealing their identities on this website. Instead, AWS is including a list and description of staff positions (see below). If you have questions or comments, please ask for the following staff positions when you call our shelter. 

AWS includes 17 staff members (13 full-time and 4 part-time). As a non-hierarchical, consensus-based organization, all staff members participate in organizational duties, including crisis hotline shifts and rotating pager shifts. Although staff members have a body of work that creates their core job duties, all members are expected to significantly contribute to at least one other program area. 

Executive Director:
She is the co-founder of AWS, and has been with the agency for almost two decades. She is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the organization. The ED is involved with all aspects of the organization, ranging from all programs to organizational development and strategic planning around fiscal sustainability.

National Network Coordinator:
She is responsible for coordinating AWS’s National Peer-to-Peer Project, an innovative program that provides intensive and tailored technical assistance and support to 5–7 anti-violence agencies across the nation each year. She also coordinates "Transforming Silence into Action", a national gathering to address relationship violence in APL Lesbian Bisexual Queer Transgender communities. 

Program Systems Coordinator:
She is responsible for all program reporting (i.e., mid-year, end-of the-year) to all sources of funding. She collects and computes statistics regarding shelter residents, crisis-line calls, and resident stays on a quarterly basis.

Program Development Coordinator I and II:
Both program development coordinators are dedicated to cultivating and maintaining AWS’s strong individual donor base. They co-organize AWS’s fundraising events, including its annual May event and other fundraising events throughout the year.

Children’s Advocates I and II:
Both of the children’s advocates play a critical role in the Direct Service Program and in program development. These advocates work with children at the shelter, helping to create safety, comfort, and a sense of consistency in children’s lives. Each advocate works individually with a child, and has a weekly special time with the child. Other responsibilities include: coordinating school/childcare; working closely with mothers to see what their needs are to take care of their child(ren); coordinating mental health/health services; facilitating Tuesday and Wednesday night Children’s Support Group; and doing follow-up work as children transition out of emergency shelter into permanent or transitional housing. 

Women’s Advocates I and II:
Both women’s advocates are integral to the Direct Service Program at the shelter. Their duties include intensive case management for women residents; coordination of legal/mental health/health services; one-on-one counseling support; and program development. They also participate in follow-up services as women transition out of emergency shelter. Both of the current advocates have been with the shelter for over a decade. 

Family Advocate:
The family advocate plays an important role in supporting women as they transition out of emergency shelter into permanent and/or transitional housing. Some of her duties include supporting women as they obtain jobs or enroll in skills-building programs; finding on-going housing outside of AWS; and continuing to coordinate on-going legal/mental health/medical appointments after residents leave the shelter.

Community Projects Coordinator:
This coordinator is integral to the Community Building Program at AWS. She coordinates specific community projects, including AWS’s Queer Asian Women’s Services (QAWS), a component dedicated to better serving Asian Pacific Islander immigrant, queer women in violent interpersonal relationships. 

Facilities Coordinator:
This coordinator is an integral member of the Direct Services team, and is responsible for maintaining the safety and general upkeep of the AWS shelter (i.e., house maintenance jobs such as plumbing, roof, etc.). She is also responsible for coordinating house activities with the residents, such as food shopping, weekend outings, etc., and also works with the entire AWS staff to maintain office/shelter upkeep.

Community Resource Coordinator:
This coordinator is an important member of the internal Finance/Fund Development/Program Reporting team; she is responsible for all grants-related activities, including grants research, writing, and follow-up with funders.

Volunteer Coordinator/QAWS advocate:
This position at AWS is responsible for organizing the shelter’s two annual 64- hour volunteer trainings, which certify participants as domestic violence counselors in the State of California. She is responsible for recruiting women from unserved/underserved communities, and also supports the Multi-Lingual Access Model  (MLAM) Coordinator to recruit prospective language advocates, also known as MLAMs. 

Mult-Lingual Access Model (MLAM) Coordinator:
The MLAM Coordinator is critical to both the Direct Services and Community Building programs at AWS. She is responsible for recruiting bicultural, bilingual women from unserved/underserved communities to become on-call language advocates or MLAMs. She also continues to be the main point/support person for all MLAMs.

Finance Coordinator:
The Finance Coordinator is an integral member of the Finance/Fund Development/Program Reporting team. Her duties include coordinating personnel and finance-related matters, working closely with the entire Finance team to manage a $1.5 million budget, and creating financial sustainability within the organization, both short-term and long-term. 

Accountant:
The Accountant works closely with the Finance Coordinator to maintain the agency’s $1.5 million budget. Some of her duties include processing all agency checks, such as those from individual donors and funders, and she works closely with the entire Finance team to create and maintain a sound organizational budget that meets the program needs of AWS. 

MLAMs and Volunteers:
AWS’s Multi-Lingual Access Model advocates and volunteers are integral to the organization’s services, sustainability, development, and growth. Without our solid base of MLAMs and volunteers, AWS would not be able to provide critical services for our residents and outside clients. Currently, AWS’s language advocates offer language support in over 30 different languages and dialects, and participate in activities ranging from translation/interpretation during AWS House and Support Group meetings, to providing emotional support to residents and accompanying them to important medical/legal appointments. Volunteers contribute their time in numerous ways as well including providing direct emotional support to residents, supporting children's program weekly groups, and doing weekly grocery shopping for residents.  

AWS Organizational Board

The eight-member organizational board has been important to providing both guidance and support to AWS. The Board meets every other month and supports the agency by providing both insight and active participation in strategic planning meetings and AWS fundraising events. The Board also reflects the population served by AWS, and embraces diversity through ethnicity, economic, social, and educational background, occupation, and gender and sexual orientation.