Community Beyond Violence provides many services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, stalking, and dating violence.

24-HOUR CRISIS LINE - 530-272-3467
Text - 530-290-6555
Chat - rc.chat/cbv
Business line - 530-272-2046

Services include:

• 24/7 crisis counseling
• Shelter and safe housing (pet friendly) for up to 90 days
• Support groups
• Food, clothing, and transportation
• Accompaniment and advocacy
• Legal services - CBV assists with preparation of Domestic Violence Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) and accompanies clients to court and mediation appointments. Accompanies victims through the court process and connects them with support systems such as the Nevada County Victim Witness.
• Referrals to additional services
• SART (exam following sexual assault, rape kit, etc) - ​SART stands for Sexual Assault Response Team
  
  

Web pages from above with visible url links

• Home - https://cbv.org/
• Services - https://www.cbv.org/our-services

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The Friendship Club provides a year-round program in Western Nevada County serving girls at risk in grades 6-12. Girls meet after school during the school year, attend field trips and other activities during school breaks, and participate in summer camps and enrichment activities throughout the summer.

The Friendship Club has helped almost 1,000 girls since starting in 1995. The comprehensive, long-term program is open to youth who are female, identifying as female, and gender non-conforming between the ages of 10 and 18, and provides assistance into their 20s as they transition to adulthood. The Friendship Club serves more than 100 youth every year, providing year-round academic, social, and emotional support in individual and group settings – and ensuring basic needs, such as access to health care and healthy meals, are available.

Girls are grouped into cohorts by grade level and stay with their group until they graduate high school. Participation is free, as are all the activities, f… [read more]

Gender Health Center provides counseling services, advocacy, outreach, name & gender change help, and a hormone clinic.

Services:

Advocacy Services

Advocates meet with clients on a bi-weekly or weekly basis to set goals using a strengths-based, client-centered approach. The program works to connect clients with resources and to assist clients in navigating all GHC services when appropriate, such as counseling, name and gender change assistance, health insurance options, economic empowerment program, hormone clinics and legal health clinics.

Name and Gender Change Paperwork Assistance

Advocates assist clients in filling out name and gender change court paperwork and identity documents, such as driver license, birth certificate, passport and social security changes; become familiar with the court process for changing name and gender; provide information to clients around the process for legal name and gender change.

Covered California Outreach and Education

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LGBTQ+

• Trainings
• Professional Development
• No-cost Resources
• Gender Support Plan

Gender Spectrum helps to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens through providing an array of services to help youth, families, organizations and institutions understand and address concepts of Gender identity and Gender expression, including how societal, cultural, organizational and community definitions of gender can be detrimental to any young person that does not fit neatly into these categories.

Gender Spectrum offers resources to empower your relationships, work, and interactions with youth and children. Gender Spectrum provides you with the tools necessary to create gender inclusive environments in your homes, offices, and communities.

Gender Spectrum provides:

• How-to guides
• Online Consultations
• Online Groups
• Research
• Sample training materials

The Trans Student Educational Resources offers a Gender Unicorn is a simple one page PDF that educates individuals (youth through adult) on:
-Gender Identity
-Gender Expression
-Sex Assigned At Birth
-Physical Attraction
-Emotional Attraction

It is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, German, French, Turkish and Hungarian. https://transstudent.org/gender/

TSER also produces free infographics: https://transstudent.org/graphics/

Websites:

• Main website - https://transstudent.org/

Genders & Sexualities Alliances unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities. 

There are 3 different types of GSAs—all of which can directly impact LGBTQ+ youth: Social, Support, and Activist. Every GSA can create its own mission and goals to meet the needs of its members and the unique climate of their school.

• Social GSAs — Students meet and connect with other trans and queer students on campus
• Support GSAs — Students work to create safe spaces and talk about the various issues they face in school or their broader communities, such as discrimination from teachers or school administrators
• Activist GSAs — Students take a leadership role to improve school climate through campaigns and events that raise awareness and change policies or practices in their schools.
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://gsanetwork.org/

The Human Rights Campaign provides resources, education, and support to help achieve LGBTQ+ equality.

You can find their resources here.

Web pages

• Home - http://www.hrc.org/
• Find Resources - https://www.hrc.org/resources

The Lavender Library provides a lending library service and archive for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) books and magazines, various media, and archival materials.

It also includes:

• Displays and exhibits
• Author speaking events
• A book discussion group
• Free Wifi, air conditioning, and heat
• A meeting space for groups and organizations
  
  

Web pages

• Home - http://lavenderlibrary.com/

LGBT Near Me provides a large collection of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender resources on the web. Find the closest social and support resources, the closest community centers, the closest youth groups and more.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.lgbtnearme.org/

Trevor Project crisis counselors answer calls, chats, or texts from LGBTQ+ young people 24/7 who are struggling with issues such as coming out, LGBTQ+ identity, depression, and suicide.

• Phone - 866-488-7386
• Text - Text "START" to 678678
• Chat - Click Chat option on Trevor Project web page

Web pages

• Home - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
• Get help, including Chat - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help-now/