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The Diversity Center provides a range of activities to engage LGBTQ+ older adults, including social gatherings, low-impact exercise, and luncheons. Our weekly Wisdom Workshops offer a welcoming space for elders to socialize, play games, receive tech support, attend gentle yoga classes, or connect with staff for additional support. Additional workshop topics include dementia prevention, elder abuse awareness, and ecological practices.

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Wisdom Workshops: A weekly offering for LGBTQ+ and allied older adults. Join us for different learning experiences including writing workshops, low-impact chair yoga, music bingo, special guest presentations, and more.

Rainbow Strollers: A weekly walking group for LGBTQ+ and allied older adults. This activity provides a fun, rewarding, non-judgmental experience for walkers with a focus on appropriate exercise, interaction, companionship, and enjoyment of nature. The walks are longer than 2 miles with breaks.

Men's and Women's Socials: LGBTQ+ men's and women's socials meet every other month starting in February, either at someone's home, for an outing, or at The Diversity Center. The socials are usually for two hours in the afternoon, though the time can vary.

Luncheon Socials: LGBTQ+ and allied older adult luncheons occur in January, April, September, and November. Luncheons feature food, beverages, entertainment, and engaging education on a relevant topic.

Gentle yoga taught with a trauma-sensitive lens. Taught by a rotating SYC teacher. $10-$20 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds.

This property offers 104 low-income units with various layouts. Options include efficiency, two-bedroom units, and three-bedroom or larger units. These homes provide affordable and comfortable living for individuals and families.

This property offers 18 low-income units with various layouts. Options include efficiency and three-bedroom or larger units. These homes provide affordable and comfortable living for individuals and families.

This property offers 51 low-income units with various layouts. Options include efficiency and one-bedroom units, two-bedroom units, and three-bedroom or larger units. These homes provide affordable and comfortable living for individuals and families.

• Homework tutoring and reinforcement of math and reading skills
• Art
• Creative writing
• Math games
• Community building through role play and team activities
• Additional activities such as cooking, dance, music and soccer

The Family & Children's Services Transition Age Youth (TAY) program serves current and former foster youth age 15-24 with a range of services to assist youth in making a healthy transition to adulthood. Programs include counseling, skill-building, a drop-in center and subsidized supportive housing.

TAY programs include: . The Independent Living Program (ILP) serves current and former foster and probation placement youth age 15-21. It assists youth to develop independent living skills to successfully transition to self-sufficiency and includes services such as one-on-one counseling, assistance in obtaining ID cards, driving permits and licenses and workshops on topics that assist youth in achieving personal, education and vocational goals. . The Transitional Housing Program is a supportive housing program for former non-minor dependents and foster youth between the ages 18-24. Youth are supported with financial assistance, educational expenses, emotional support, life skills coaching, and referral to community resources to help them achieve the financial stability necessary to succeed in independent living. Learn more: https://www.santacruzhumanservices.org/FamilyChildren/TransitionalAgeYout

The Family & Children's Services Foster Care Program provides foster parent recruitment, licensing of relative caregiver and foster family homes, training and support for relative caregivers and foster families and enforcement of foster care regulations. The Adoptions Program places children who are unable to live safely with their birth family into permanent homes. We recruit and screen prospective adoptive parents, finalize adoptions, provide post-adoption services and provide services to birth parents who choose to voluntarily relinquish their parental rights. Learn more: https://www.santacruzhumanservices.org/FamilyChildren/FosterCareandAdoptions

The Family & Children's Services Kinship program is the temporary placement of children in a safe, nurturing family environment with relatives or extended family members, when their parents cannot care for them. If possible, foster children are returned to their birth families, or through adoption, placed permanently with another family. Kinship care provides 24-hour care until the child can be reunited with his/her parents or adopted by another family. Learn more: https://www.santacruzhumanservices.org/FamilyChildren/KinshipCare/WhatisKinshipCare

Serve victims/survivors who are impacted by the following crimes: Child Physical Abuse or Neglect;Child sexual abuse/assault Survivors/victims services: Case manager.

Provides comprehensive, strengths-based, culturally and linguistically appropriate behavioral health services for Medi-Cal eligible children and youth who have moderate to severe behavioral health needs.

Services include assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy (individual, family), case management, and psychiatric care (evaluation and medication management). Services delivered at County behavioral health clinic locations, community, or home-based settings, as clinically appropriate.

The Access Team provides 24-hour confidential crisis intervention and referral services (800-952-2335).

Provides substance use disorder prevention, early intervention, and treatment services across the continuum of care.

Stress Busters: Behavioral & Mental Health, Mental Healthcare, Mindfulness Practices, Supportive Relationships

Youth Services: CAREER EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH & WELLNESS, SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, YOUTH LEADERSHIP

S.A.F.E.R. is a publicly accessible ARC GIS website that contains situational awareness information relevant to Santa Cruz County in regard to weather-related hazards/data, power outages, up to date fire information, and more!

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/299b805ef98440e48ebd82a6b7958c9b/