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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Hot Lines & Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Suicide Prevention
Mission: Crisis intervention
Programs: Rape crisis centers - these centers give support, advocacy, and counseling to survivors of sexual assault. Perform outreach work through educating schools, businesses, and other groups regarding sexual assault prevention, sexual harrassment, bullying, and other gender issues. Emergency services - food, shelter, and clothing are provided on a short term emergency basis, supplemented by homeless prevention and transition housing projects. Child, youth, and family services - provide court appointed special advocates are trained volunteers that give a voice to abused and neglected children in court. The independent living program helps foster youth prepare for adult life, and assist newly emancipated foster youth in the transition to independent living. Parenting classes are offered to parents needing guidence and ideas fulfilling their family roles. Three of four centers are "family resource centers", which act as a meeting place for groups, help with applications to various programs, and first stop referral to diverse services of other agencies. Crisis line volunteers and staff provide confidential crisis intervention 24 hours a day, seven days a week to callers in both plumas and sierra counties.
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