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Financial Relief Available Now
March 19, 2020
by Deborah Pembrook, Human Trafficking Outreach Manager
With Monterey County under a stay-in-place order, so many survivors and other community members are asking if we are safe and secure. We want to help by providing clear and accurate help and connections to resources - including financial help that is available right now to anyone facing loss of work hours or jobs due to COVID-19.
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We're not going anywhere.
March 18, 2020
by Erin Ortiz, Community Engagement Specialist
Crisis intervention - it’s our specialty.
At Monterey County Rape Crisis Center, our staff and volunteers are highly trained to support people in times of crisis. Advocacy is our thing and we do it well. We are there every day for people who are seeking resources and healing.
However much we’d aspire to be, none of us are superhuman. Even if we know a thing or two about crisis intervention. The recent and rapid unfolding of events related to the novel coronavirus (...
The My Life clubs are adapting!
March 18, 2020
by Devan Haddad, Prevention Educator
A typical day for me during the school year is filled with a variety of tasks surrounding my 3...
Thoughts on the Weinstein Verdict
By Clare Mounteer, Executive Director
Feb. 28, 2020
Last Monday a jury in Manhattan handed down a verdict finding powerful media mogul Harvey Weinstein guilty on two of five charges of rape and sexual assault. The verdict has been hailed as game changing for survivors who have...
Lessons Learned: Five Years of Serving Human Trafficking Survivors
Jan. 29, 2020
by Deborah Pembrook, Human Trafficking Outreach Manager
This year marks the fifth anniversary of Monterey County Rape Crisis Center providing direct services to human trafficking survivors. Since 2015, we have ensured that survivors of all forms of trafficking in Monterey County have access to advocacy, counseling and confidential support.
To be clear, MCRCC has served survivors of sexual assault who also experienced human trafficking since our inception. However, in the last five years, we have made the support of human trafficking...
There's no room for trafficking in Monterey County
December 27, 2019
MCRCC has been training staff at a major hotel downtown Monterey on how to identify and respond to human trafficking. In honor of January and National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, MCRCC is shining a light on the important role hotels can play in ending human trafficking.
Portola Hotel & Spa in downtown Monterey has over 300 staff and next to the Monterey Conference Center. Over the last few months, and continuing on in January, we have offered multiple trainings to nearly 100 of the Portola Hotel’s staff, particularly staff in the...
Beyond the Breakthrough: The Necessity of Survivor Leadership
September 6, 2019
Our Human Trafficking Outreach Manager Deborah Pembrook was a speaker at NSAC 2019 and she was invited to write a blog piece that has been featured on Ms. Magazine. Keep reading below for the full post and link to the Ms. Magazine blog.
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