Grayson Crisis Center
Hope for today, courage for tomorrow
Mission
We are dedicated to providing a safe haven, crisis intervention, and comprehensive support services to victims of family violence and sexual assault.
We are further dedicated to breaking the cycle of family and sexual violence through community education while assisting victims in their transition to a more stable and self-sufficient life.
Ruling year
1984
Executive Director
Ms. Shelli Shields
Main address
PO Box 2112
Sherman, TX 75091 USA
EIN
75-1943648
NTEE code
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (P01)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Domestic violence is a type of controlling behavior that is a pervasive life-threatning crime, affecting all people in our community, regardless of race, age, ethnicity, social status, religion or education. In addition to the immediate physical and emotional disturbances, a varying range of mental and physical health ensue. This leads to loss of wages, medical attention/care and increased criminal activities. With this, the staggering rates of deaths due to domestic violence/sexual assault continue to rise-- the facts are disheartening-- one in three women and one in four men report being sexually abused/assaulted and nearly 1/3 of American women report being sexually assaulted by a significant other at some point in their lives.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Sexual Assault Response Team
SART responds to hotline calls received and is comprised of community partners including medical personnel and hospitals, law enforcement, the Child Advocacy Center, nurses, advocates, CPS/APS, and victims, their families, and supporters. Along with services provided to the survivor, the SART program also caters to secondary victims such as parents and partners. This support is essential to ensure that survivors focus on themselves while the secondary victims have access services for their own needs.
The Volunteer Program
The Volunteer program enhances the services offered by the Crisis Center. This service is an integral part of developing community wide support and engagement for survivors. Direct service volunteers provide one-on-one work to survivors seeking shelter and other services at the Crisis Center. These areas of service include, but are not limited to; educational programming, shelter advocacy, the crisis hotline, and the children's program.
Children's Summer Program
School breaks such as summer vacation can place victims at a higher risk of being abused. Our Children's Summer Program seeks to mitigate these risks by offering Survivor's children ages 6-15 a safe and structured learning environment for their children to participate. This program tuns Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m to 4:00 p.m.
EMERGE Program
The EMERGE program allows students to discover links between violence and culture. Students learn to interrupt harmful behaviors and shift norms in their community to promote empathy, connection, respect, and positive relationships. The goal of the EMERGE program is to work with our communities to change attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that support violence. We explore ideas which can contribute to a violent culture such as how the media influences the youth, impact of stereotypes and more. We also educate on topics which help build and sustain a healthy community such as emotion management, empathy skills, bystander intervention and more.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of new advocates recruited
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
It is our belief that every family deserves to live in a world free from violence. In working to change the climate in the community from tolerance to intolerance of sexual assault and domestic violence. In doing so, the Crisis Center aims to eliminate
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
In doing so, the Grayson Crisis Center offers emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling and support services to women and children who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. We also facilitate public education about the devastating consequences of domestic violence and sexual assault as well as other resources such as-- providing anger management classes, batterer intervention services, facilitating primary prevention programs to children in local schools, clubs, churches, etc.; and finally, offering non-residential services to survivors living in our community including support groups, safety planning and the proper referrals.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
To meet our goals and to fulfill the needs of the communities we serve, the GCC provides staffing that allows 24/7 walk-in survivors to receive advocacy and crisis intervention and additionally staffs a 24/7 emergency hotline that is always answered directly by an advocate; and a sexual assault response team to respond to victims as needed in emergency situations.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The Volunteer Program has greatly influenced the capacity of the work done by the Grayson Crisis Center. In providing services to 850 victims and children each year we have seen more assistance in educating the public
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Grayson Crisis Center
Board of directorsas of 08/03/2020
Mr. Scott Caldwell
Cable One Advertising
Ms. Debbie Sartin
Jane White
Community Volunteer
Scott Caldwell
Cable One Advertising
Brittany Melton
Landmark Bank
Asa Jesse
Edward Jones
Debbie Sartin
Mortgage Banker
Bea Means
David Means Allstate
Matt Brown
Legend Bank
Brandon Shelby
Alton Blakely
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Debbie Hundall-Quinlan
Virginia Cook
Ashton Ghaemi
Sherman Economic Development Corporation
Laura Dapkus
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Cindy McCullough
McCullough & Pierson Insurance
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CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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