CREATE Project RESOURCES:
Child-Responsive Empowering Art Through Everyone
www.create-project.com
The CREATE Project is an arts-based initiative designed to help a community become free of child-trauma, abuse, and neglect, and to become a place where children can thrive.
- About Position Statements
- Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment
- Permissions
- Tell Your Story:
- Scope of the Project & Statement of Purpose
- Formula for a Successful Story Submission
- Guidelines for a CREATE Project story, song, poem, etc.
LOCAL RESOURCES:
CAP: Child Advocacy Program of Chautauqua County
40 E. Main Street, Fredonia, NY 14063 Stewards of Children, Child Abuse Prevention Training for Adults, Call (716)-338-9844; www.capjustice.org
CAP provides a safe welcoming place where children who have been sexually or physically abused can begin their journey of healing. CAP facilitates an “under-one-roof” collaboration of social and legal agencies to protect treat and cousel child victims and their families, and to investigate and prosecute the abusers. This collaborative approach is proven to be effective at reducing the trauma child suffer following a disclosure of abuse or neglect, while ensuring their offenders are held accountable.
CASAC: Chautauqua Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Council
Addressing alcohol, and other drugs and related high risk behaviors through Advocacy, Hope & Awareness
CASAC’s Mission is to build a safer, healthier community by effectively addressing alcohol, other drugs and related high-risk behaviors through Advocacy, Hope, and Awareness.
Since 1974, Chautauqua Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Council (CASAC) has provided alcohol, other drugs, and compulsive gambling prevention services to the Chautauqua County community.
CASAC’s prevention strategies take aim at how people think, feel, and act by focusing messages and activities on areas of influence such as the individual, family, or community.
Dunkirk
Phone (716) 366-4623
Fax (716) 366-4624
New location:
324 Central Avenue
Suite 105
Dunkirk, NY 14048
Jamestown
Phone (716) 664-3608
Fax (716) 664-3661
501 W. Third Street
Suites 3 & 4 Springhorn Building
Jamestown, NY 14701
REGIONAL RESOURCES:
Grassroots Gardens of Buffalo, www.grassrootsgardens.org
Buffalo First www.buffalofirst.org
Slow Food Buffalo www.slowfoodbuffalo.org
Professor Samina Raja and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at University of Buffalo
Regional CSAs and Farms
Promised Land www.promisedlandcsa.com
Singer Farms www.singerfarms.com
Native Offerings www.nativeofferings.com
Porter Farms www.porterfarms.org
STATE RESOURCES:
Just Food www.justfood.org
City Farmer www.cityfarmer.org
Green Guerillas, www.greenguerillas.org
Rochester Roots, www.rochesterroots.org
NOFA-NY, www.nofany.org
NYFarms! www.nyfarms.info
NATIONAL RESOURCES:
Kitchen Gardeners, www.kitchengardeners.org
American Community Gardening Association, www.communitygarden.org
Community Food Security Coalition, www.foodsecurity.org
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, www.lincolninst.edu/index-high.asp
Growing Power Community Food Center www.growingpower.org
The Food Project, www.thefoodproject.org
White Dog Cafe www.whitedog.com
INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES:
UNICEF
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up. unicef.org
Institute for Culture and Society
The Institute for Culture and Society researches transformations in culture and society in the context of contemporary global change. It champions collaborative, engaged research in the humanities and social sciences for a globalising digital age. Located in Parramatta, Australia, at Western Sydney University, the Institute operates a vigorous program of events that are both locally and globally oriented. Its regular Knowledge/Culture conference series has included addresses from leading international scholars.
Young and Resilient Research Centre
The Young and Resilient Research Centre is an Australia-based, international research centre that unites young people with researchers, practitioners, innovators and policymakers, to explore the role of technology in children’s and young people’s lives and how it can be used to improve individual and community resilience across generations. westernsydney.edu.au/young-and-resilient