Court Referral

Do you have court-ordered community service hours to complete? Our program will help you complete your hours with a nonprofit agency that needs your help! Call the main number to schedule an appointment: 707-573-3360.

We are located at 153 Stony Circle Suite 100 Santa Rosa CA. 
Directions: From Hwy 101, take the Hwy 12 Exit West towards Sebastopol. From 12, take the Stony Point Road exit and turn Right onto Stony Point Road. Continue until you get to Stony Circle, and turn Left onto Stony Circle. Go around the Round-About and turn into the last parking lot. We are located in the farthest left building, suite 100.

Program Information
The Volunteer Center Court Referral Community Service Program is the referral agency for residents of Sonoma County who are assigned community service work by the courts or probation. The program provides placement, follow-up, monitoring and reports on offenders referred to complete community service work. Those referred to the program may be from Traffic Court, Adult Diversion Services, the Adult and Juvenile Probation Departments, or directly from the criminal and civil courts with conditional sentences. Referrals for community service work are made in lieu of fines or jail, as a condition of diversion or dismissal, or as an independent, sometimes mandated sentencing option.

Work assignments are made on the basis of a face to face interview to determine the client's skills, availability and limitations. Clients are matched to a community not for profit agency to do a wide variety of tasks. All of these tasks enhance the ability of the agencies to provide services to the community. The work assignment involves the offender with the community in a positive, constructive way that benefits both the offender and the community.

Interviews are done by appointment and only at The Volunteer Center in Santa Rosa. Work assignments are available in all parts of the county.

A program fee is charged for each referral. The fee is based on the number of hours of work assigned. Contact program staff for the current fee schedule. Waivers or reductions in fees must be arranged with the Program Director.

A person sentenced in Sonoma County, who lives outside of this county, should contact program staff for instructions on how to arrange to do the assigned work where he lives.

A person who was assigned community service work in some other county or state and lives in Sonoma County should arrange a transfer to this program from the sentencing jurisdiction. For assistance, telephone program staff.