Provides a safe and nurturing environment where hurting children, teens, and families who are experiencing grief can share experiences, support one another and find comfort as they move through the difficult process of emotional healing.

Grief Care for Children offered BY Chaplaincy Health Care at Cork's Place

Provides English and Spanish support workshops to process grief.

Mutual support groups whose members are children and youth who have experienced the loss of a parent, sibling or other relative and need the emotional support of the group to alleviate feelings of isolation and a sense of responsibility for the loss. The groups may meet in-person, by telephone or via the Internet.

Bereaved Child Support Groups

Programs that help nonprofit organizations develop a better understanding of the legislative process, the laws that govern the nature and extent of their involvement in public policy development and lobbying activities, and the difference between lobbying and political activities; and learn effective strategies and techniques for engaging in community organizing, or planning, developing and implementing public policy positions and/or grassroots or direct lobbying campaigns that effectively further the goals of their organization or benefit the people they serve.

Organizational Advocacy Program Development

Provides a primary prevention program for sexual assault, violence, and crimes. Also provides community presentations, which are offered in an age appropriate manner and are directed toward the prevention of sexual violence.

Prevention Program offered at Support, Advocacy & Resource Center SARC

Provides a primary prevention program for sexual assault, violence, and crimes.

Programs that attempt to reduce the incidence of date rape, verbal and physical abuse, threats of abuse and other forms of violence that occur between dating teens through a variety of educational interventions which may focus on potential victims and perpetrators; agency, school or health care personnel who work with them; or the community as a whole.  Activities may include classroom-based education, teacher workshops, parent workshops, peer leadership training, counseling groups for males who abuse or threaten a female peer, and community-based workshops for out-of-school youth. Programs may also be available for older people who are dating.

Dating Violence Prevention

Programs, often offered by the schools, that attempt to protect children from molestation and other forms of sexual assault by family members, friends of the family, caretakers or strangers by teaching them about good and bad touches, that their body is their own, that it is all right to say "no" if someone wants to touch them in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable, and which encourage them to tell someone if they are approached or assaulted.

Child Sexual Assault Prevention

Programs that use any of a wide variety of materials to educate the public about issues that relate to a particular field or topic.

Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education

Programs that provide a variety of supportive services for people who have witnessed a crime which may include crisis counseling, shelter away from their homes, escort services, transportation, child care, financial assistance, protective services, information about the mechanics of court proceedings and/or advice and guidance concerning court appearances. Some programs focus specifically on child witnesses and help to prepare them for what they will experience in the courtroom.

Crime Witness Support

Programs that help adults become aware of the precautions they can take at home, in their cars and on the streets to avoid sexual assault, and the alternatives they have if they are confronted by an assailant. Sessions may focus on the needs of women, gay men, transgendered individuals or others who may be particularly vulnerable.

Adult Sexual Assault Prevention

Programs that provide a variety of supportive services for victims of crimes and their families which may include general emotional support, crisis counseling, information about police investigative procedures, liaison to police personnel, assistance in completing and filing applications for reimbursement of crime-related expenses or losses, information about the mechanics of court proceedings, advice concerning court appearances, court accompaniment services, assistance in preparing victim impact statements and referrals for other needed services such as medical treatment, shelter away from home, transportation, child care, financial assistance and protective services.

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Grief Care for Children offered BY Chaplaincy Health Care at Cork's Place

Prevention Program offered at Support, Advocacy & Resource Center SARC