
Creating Peace
October 16, 2023
If this is an emergency or you are experiencing a crisis, please call 9-1-1.
Control yourself and stay calm. If you shout into the phone or at arriving officers or medical professionals, they can’t understand you.
View resources for community programs, support groups, and local non-profit organizations below.
GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. You don’t have to go through the grieving process alone.
Meets at Common Ground Church
8355 Arroyo Vista Dr, Sacramento, CA 95823
Click here for more information
or
Click here to find an alternative location near you
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Sutter Health offers Children’s Bereavement Art Group. The program uses the creative arts as a second language to help children and their families express grief after a loved one has died.
The Children’s Bereavement Art Group is free to children in Sacramento and surrounding communities. Children must be between the ages of 4-17 and have experienced the death of a significant person within the last year. Click here for more information.
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Hope for Healthy Families is a non-profit counseling center offers affordable counseling to any member of the Elk Grove, South Sacramento and Galt communities. Fees are based on a sliding scale and start at $40/session. We believe that we can help you find hope in the process of learning how to live a more emotionally healthy life. Please call to set up an appointment. Click here to view information and locations.
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Sharing Parents is a community of parents who have experienced the loss of a baby from the time of conception through early infancy. Sharing Parents provides a safe place for grieving parents to share their feelings and experiences with a compassionate community. We give and receive support by sharing our common experiences, learning about the natural grief process, identifying our emotions, and working through our loss. For over 30 years, Sharing Parents has helped parents move towards healing. Click here for more information.
Open to anyone age 18 or older who is looking for peer-led assistance as either a person recovering from mental illness or a family member/caregiver of someone who lives with mental illness. Offers support to youth, families, caregivers, and schools/school staff including:
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Drop-in day center for women and children in Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood.
3414 4th Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95817
Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM, or by arrangement.
(916) 454-9688, ext. 211
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Links Sacramento County residents of all ages to culturally and linguistically responsive, recovery-focused mental health services.
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Walk-in clinic for individuals with an urgent mental health need. The MHUCC is a client-centered program that focuses on providing immediate relief to individuals and families in distress. The program intends to avert psychiatric emergency room visits and involuntary hospitalizations. The goal of MHUCC is to foster recovery for individuals and families through the promotion of hope and wellness.
2130 Stockton Blvd Ste 300 Sacramento CA
916-364-8395
Calista Sordelet, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Roseville, CA
(916)787-0555
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Jory Irons, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
3065 Freeport Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95818
(916)295-6765
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South Sacramento
ncswanigan@gmail.com
(916)345-4550
Pastor Rich Sherman is a Marriage Pastor who provides teaching and marital support to couples.
Click here to contact Pastor Rich.
We offer quarterly marriage enrichment classes. Click here to view upcoming events, if scheduled.
Our ministry has a mission to provide information, support, and nurturing spaces that foster a culture of acceptance and compassion. We aim to replace judgment and condemnation with love, hope, and inspiration for individuals impacted by these circumstances, while also encouraging others to join us in driving positive transformation.
Midtown Family Alliance equips and advocates for foster, adoption and kinship families. Our desire is to create an inclusive and uplifting community by connecting families to community resources, education, and trust-based relational intervention.
As part of the mission for hope, health, and healing, it is one of our priorities to provide counseling and mental health and health coaching services to those in need.
To determine if you are in need of therapy or mental coaching please see the following:
Sliding scale fees available (In some cases, starting at $20/50 minute sessions). Please inquire directly with the coaches:
Tamara Balhorn
Consultant & Certified Coach, Mental Health Coach & Chaplain
www.thegriefcoach.net
(707)676-6026
* Sliding Scale available
Donecia Norwood- Smith
Life and Trauma Coach
(916) 827-0276
Influential, LLC
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We do our best to respond to you within 1-2 business days.