HOW TO ACCESS OUR SERVICE!
Contact your nearest location during business
hours to schedule an inital conversation and
‘trauma symptom assessment with one of our
advocates,
Outreach and Eduestion programs are
available for any group or organization that
‘operates in Craven, jones, and Pamlico
Counties. Call or contact us omine for
scheduling/ingulry.
(Our staff is here with you and for you. We
recognize the range of personal lived
‘experiences and identities that shape your
responses to healing from trauma.
Funding for services may possibly be grants
2 eee
‘to protect, eal and serve victims of sexual and
Serving Craven, Jones,
and Pamlico Counties
‘As acommunity member, we invite you to be
2 part of our efforts in serving victims of sexual
violence, trauma, and victims of crime.
ual Violence Resource Center
providing trauma-informed advocacy,
Since 1978 our organization has been asin
a ig outreach, and trauna-focused therapy
Victims impacted by trauma and crime in
Craven, jones, and Pamlico Counties.
“This would not happen without community
support.
Ifyou are comfortable in supporting our
‘organization financially, thank you!
‘Checks can be made out to Promise Place,
501(€)3 non-profit, or through our website
(PayPa) www promiseplacenewbernnc.org
“To schedule appoinemens al
NEW BERN OFFICE: 252-436-3381
‘TRENTON OFFICE: 252-448-1069
BAYBORO OFFICE: 252-474-8336
‘Your generous support enables us to continue
other forms of violence
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24/7 CRISSJEMERGENCY SUP VICES:AVAILABLE SERVICES
24/7 CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES
‘A waned, trauma-informed advocate i aay on
calles
Provide informed, empathetic, and compassionate
support for you through the SANE medical exam
(rape ke’)
+ Suppor: victrysurvvors through periods of ers
andor tigger episodes
VICTIM ADVOCACY
* informing you about reporting victims rights and your
‘options within, and outside ofthe legal system
* Supporting you though the investigation process
‘should ou chose to report
+ Fecitating communications wit av enforcement
‘and the District Atoreys office to thebestof ur
bility
INDIVIDUAL/PEER TO PEER.
‘ADVOCACY
Supporting individuals and fries through the healing
races, ot thelr pace, using traumeinformed, vc
centered end empathetic aproach by.
+ Gannecting with vctimjsunivors to understand thelr
experiences and needs
+ Cannecing vitimisunivors with exch other, with
‘community, and other support as needed ori desired
"ual violence fe much broader than any
specific acts. Collectively, these practices
comprise « rape cuture that draws energy fom
the ethos of violence that saturates American
soclety"
Patricia Hill Coline
‘TRAUMA
Exeryone responds uniquely sexual and other forms
of iolnce
* Some people wll continue with limited individu,
reltinal and behvira impact.
(Others may experience cinical PTSD andits related
symptoms, which ar often mistaken os signs of
other mental ieee
* Some people wll not develop symptoms unt some
time hos passed
(ters wil experience chem almost immediately
Prior or continued exposure to volence, amount of
‘cil support, and other characterise affect how
lndiduol respond to trauma
PTSD/Gomplex PTSD may oppear as pin,