SARC’s Mental Health Program offers a variety of groups. Support groups can be an important part of healing for survivors as they decrease the sense of isolation that many survivors feel and can be helpful in working through interpersonal challenges. SARC’s group program offerings may vary throughout the year as we try to provide a combination of ongoing process-oriented support groups and time-limited topic-specific groups.
About the Ongoing Process-Oriented Groups:
These groups meet weekly and are two hours in length comprising of no more than 10 clients at a time. These groups are divided into two different parts. The first part is “check in” where group members bring to the group what they would like to talk about that week. It can be anything that relates to the assault, healing or how it is affecting your life. The second part of group is “topic”. This is an educational portion developed by the co-facilitators to address topics that relate to sexual assault in hopes that it will add to the understanding of trauma and the healing process. At this time one of our support groups will be in person and the other will be online
We currently have two types of process-oriented groups available:
Adult Groups:
We currently provide two Support Groups for adults 20 years and older. Both groups are ongoing, taking in adults from our group wait list as openings become available.
Time-Limited Topic-Specific Groups
It is our goal to offer a variety of time limited, topic specific educational groups. The topic specific groups are typically meet for 10 weeks. At this time we offer two different topic specific groups that are offered at different times throughout the year:
Intimacy Group
This group addresses sexuality and intimacy needs for adult survivors
Friends & Family Group
This group is for friends and family of those who have experienced sexual assault. It is our hope to provide both support for the loved ones & help them be able to provide appropriate support for the victims of sexual assault.