Helping Youth Move from Self-Defeating to Transformative Resistance
“Can youth and resistance be a positive thing? You are welcome to participate in a webinar hosted by PCRC’s Schools Program on this very topic: Helping Youth Move from Self-Defeating to Transformative Resistance. Youth face many challenges in their lives, including poverty, violence, academics and social pressures. This webinar will provide those working with youth an understanding on how resistance that focuses on positive youth-adult relationships, hope, and change can be transformative in the life of a young person.
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Read MoreSEEDS is hiring an Executive Director
SEEDS Community Resolution Center (SEEDS) is a non-profit community-based organization that offers a range of affordable, free or low cost conflict resolution programs and services to residents, businesses, schools and communities in Alameda County. They have an excellent reputation for supplying high quality programs in the community for over twenty-five years.
SEEDS is currently seeking candidates for their Executive Director position.
For more information, visit their website at: http://www.seedscrc.org/index.php
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San Mateo County Violence Prevention Presents: Youth Suicide and Self Harming Behavioral
Community Leaders,
Did you know, that every year in the United States 250,000 youth attempt suicide? This means that every day close to 11 of our young people die by suicide in the U.S. Youth suicide, at times is underreported because of social stigma, shame, and guilt among family and friends.
Or that one in every 200 girls between 13 and 19 years old, or one-half of one percent, cut themselves regularly. Those who cut comprise about 70 percent of teen girls who self injure. This means that without treatment, many who begin cutting themselves as teens will continue the behavior well into their adult years and the number of cases in on the rise!
The San Mateo County Violence Prevention Network will be addressing this issue by providing a workshop presented by Toni Demarco, MS,MFT on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation from 9am to 12pm.
Toni Demarco, MS, MFT is a Clinical Services Manager for the Behavioral Health and Recovery Services Youth Division. She has been a licensed therapist for over 20 years with a specific focus on trauma and its generational impact on families and children. She is a certified Master Trainer in the LivingWorks ASIST ( Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) model.
Please take the time to register for this educational opportunity by RSVP’ing to laroche@pcrcweb.org. Space is limited!
For more information please contact: Luis M. Aroche, Manager of Violence Prevention Programs at 650-513-0330 ext. 311.
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North Central San Mateo Community Heros Honored
The North Central San Mateo community came together July 8 to honor those making a positive difference in the neighborhood. PCRC and the North Central San Mateo Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Initiative hosted the second annual Everyday Heroes Awards at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center. Check out the article in the Daily Journal and in the San Mateo County Times.
PCRC Announces New ED
PCRC is excited to announce our new Executive Director, Michelle Vilchez.
Please read the attached letter from our Board of Directors.
Read MoreSan Mateo County Violence Prevention Network
On June 3rd, PCRC and the SM County Violence Prevention Network hosted a special workshop entitled: Understanding the Pacific Islander Communities: The Impact of Violence within the Tongan and Samoan Communities. Read the article in the San Mateo County Times.
Participants at Violence Prevention Network
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