Volunteer

Are you a licensed mental health clinician or medical professional with an interest in refugee health and asylum medicine? HEAL is currently seeking licensed individuals with relevant clinical backgrounds to conduct psychological, physical, gynecological (FGM/FGC) and neuropsychological evaluations for our clients. (See overview)

To volunteer as an evaluator, you must first complete all required modules of the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative (AMTI). We also highly recommend watching the optional training module on Vicarious Trauma, and any modules related to your area of practice, if relevant.

Once you have completed the requisite AMTI modules and passed the post-course assessment, you can email your certificate of AMTI completion, resume or CV, and credentials to info@healasylum.org. Please also register to participate here. We will contact you about next steps in onboarding as a volunteer evaluator and provide all necessary training and mentorship.

Check out what our volunteer evaluators have to say about their experience.

Medical students and trainees can assist with both virtual or in-person forensic medical evaluations. This is an opportunity that involves working closely with the evaluation team, taking notes during the evaluation, and helping to draft the client’s affidavit.

To get involved, you should first complete all required modules of the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative (AMTI). We also highly recommend watching the optional training module on Vicarious Trauma, and any modules related to your area of practice, if relevant.

Once you have completed the requisite AMTI modules and passed the post-course assessment, you can email your certificate of AMTI completion to hopkinsasylum@jh.edu. Please also register to participate here. We will contact you about next steps in onboarding as a volunteer and provide all necessary training and mentorship.

HEAL is seeking qualified medical/legal interpreters to provide in-person consecutive interpretation to clients of our Forensic Evaluation Clinic in Baltimore, MD, or remotely via video conference to clients of our Border Partnership Program. Each interpretation session may have a duration of 1 to 3 hours.

To volunteer as an interpreter with HEAL, please send any relevant training certificates or licenses as well as a resume, CV, or brief biography that indicates any prior interpretation experience to hopkinsasylum@jh.edu.

HEAL is seeking qualified medical/mental health interpreters to provide consecutive interpretation to therapy patients of the HEAL Collaborative. Interpretation may be in-person in Baltimore, MD or virtual via video conference, and appointments may last between 30 minutes and one hour.

To volunteer as an interpreter with HEAL, please send any relevant training certificates or licenses as well as a resume, CV, or brief biography that indicates any prior interpretation experience to hopkinsasylum@jh.edu.

HEAL is a host site for student members of the Hopkins Community Connection, a student organization “designed to address essential needs of patients through universal social needs screening and navigation to community resources and benefit programs.” HCC volunteers working with HEAL conduct social determinants of health assessments for clients of the forensic evaluation clinic, in order to connect these clients to needed community services following their evaluations.

If you are an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University and interested in joining the HCC and volunteering with HEAL, please sign up here.

If there isn’t a volunteer position with HEAL that suits you, please consider checking on volunteer opportunities with our partnership organizations Esperanza Center and Asylee Women Enterprise.