Throughout the month of March, the Scranton Community Corrections Center collected items for the Women’s Resource Center (WRC), which provides comprehensive services for female and male victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking in Lackawanna and Susquehanna Counties. The WRC’s services include a crisis hotline, crisis counseling, emergency shelter, safe housing, legal services, support services, community education, advocacy as well as many other programs.
The Women’s Resource Center has a team of compassionate and specially trained advocates, lawyers, counselors, and professionals who work tirelessly and fervently to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault gain their personal and financial independence.
Staff from the WRC also operate a program called Safe Dates. Their staff facilitates ten engaging sessions through which students learn and discuss the causes of dating violence, how they can help a friend in an abusive relationship, common gender stereotypes regarding dating violence, and important prevention techniques. A student-designed poster contest reinforces the messages from the curriculum and promotes positive social norms.
The Scranton CCC collected nearly $1,000 worth of items for the WRC, including diapers and hygiene products.