Valley Resource Center's Public Services

A team of SLV mechanics are donating labor to enable low income parents to keep their cars operating to get them to work and school for their children.

Community Counseling
- Contact Judi Sherman at (831) 336-2553

Counselors in the San Lorenzo/Scotts Valley area are donating one hour per week for low income clients. The clients will be referred by the VRC Case Manager to the therapists on a rotating basis.

Information and Referral (I&R) Program
- Contact Laurie Jacobs at (831) 336-8156

The focus of the I&R program is to assess the current needs of the client and to provide assistance to meet those needs through referrals to local agencies, help in filling out forms for appropriate assistance including financial aid, job training, counseling, etc. We are the only Information and Referral Program in North County. The Information and Referral staff person provides input for VRC program development when there is no existing program to address the needs of the clients.

Valley Emergency Preparedness Program
- Contact Mary Hammer at (831) 336-8895

The goal is to enable our neighborhoods to develop self-reliant, inner supportive communities, capable of handling a variety of emergency situations through resource identification, radio communication, first-aid/CPR and light search and rescue training and neighborhood awareness through education; to work with government, business and industry to provide an integrated approach to emergency planning and response for SLV/SV residents.

We currently have 299 neighborhoods within 53 sectors participating in a program which identifies skills and resources available in the neighborhood and the location of the vulnerable locations. These neighborhoods share the skills/resources with all neighborhoods in their sector. The sectors are linked by Amateur/CB radio operators in VECOM program.

VECOM provides the communication link, either by telephone or radio, during emergency conditions, from the San Lorenzo/Scotts Valley areas to the appropriate agency; ie.: County Emergency Center and visa-a-versa.

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