CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse)

• 24-Hour Crisis Hotline: the only domestic violence specific hotline in San Mateo County, trained counselors provide callers with crisis counseling, safety planning, access to our emergency shelter, and community referrals. Services are available in Spanish and English 24-hours each day. If a caller speaks another language, CORA uses AT&T translation services to communicate with the victim. • CORA's Emergency Response Program – a partnership with Law Enforcement through every San Mateo County police department and the Sheriff’s Department – provides officers a vital resource at the scene of each 911 domestic violence call. Through this partnership the responding officer pages a bilingual crisis counselor at CORA who talks by phone to the parties involved. The counselor offers each victim crisis counseling, safety planning, access to CORA’s emergency shelter (as available) and referrals to other community resources. • -CORA's Support Group and Counseling Services promote healing, restore trust among victims of domestic violence and their children, decrease post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, increase positive behavioral patterns, prevent re-victimization, decrease the abuse or neglect of children of domestic violence, and prevent the intergenerational transfer of violent behaviors. Clients are offered individual therapy for four to six months and/or a four month support group program. Therapy is provided by licensed therapists and support groups are offered by crisis counselors who have received state-certified crisis counselor training and licensed therapists.

CORA provides safety, support and healing for individuals who experience abuse in an intimate relationship and educates the community to break the cycle of domestic violence.