RESOURCES

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