The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office is responsible for solving crime and community problems. The office s investigation division investigates serious and complex crimes that include sexual assault, child abuse, robbery, homicide and domestic violence. It also reviews felony and misdemeanor reports. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office has an air support unit that offers surveillance and transportation services, as well as aerial photographs of major crime scenes. The office s operations bureau is comprised of patrol division. Its concerns of police survivors division provides resources to assist in the rebuilding of the lives of surviving families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
The Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County promotes volunteerism and offers the File of Life program, which provides an individual's medical information. The organization s Friends Outside program helps to reduce the trauma of incarceration for prisoners and their families. It offers transportation to medical appointments for senior citizens and disabled people. The Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County also manages The Literacy Program, which serves adult learners who want to speak, read and write English. The organization s Retired Senior Volunteer Program connects caring senior citizens with nonprofit agencies. In addition, it provides installation services for grab bars and railings. The Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County operates the CitySERVE Volunteer Program.
The Diversity Center is dedicated to building a diverse community, promoting health and well being, and advancing social justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and questioning individuals and their allies in Santa Cruz County. Our vision is a healthy, vibrant, and diverse LGBTTIQ community in Santa Cruz County that is free from fear, hatred, and prejudice and safe in their persons, work, and their homes ; with a spirit of collaborative leadership that fosters the sharing of resources, talents, and gifts with each other and with the greater Santa Cruz Community See the map to our center for directions. Serving the Santa Cruz county Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Questioning Community of Santa Cruz County. We serve our community in various ways. First of all, we provide safe space for visitors. Each week, many visitors come through our door. Everyone who enters is welcome, treated with respect, and assisted in the best way possible by one of our dedicated volunteer hosts. Visitors utilize our lending library of over 2000 titles, watch videos, or relax in our garden area and socialize with others. They come for friendship, safety, support, referral, our lending and resource library, cyber center, or in-house sponsored activities and events. We are open in the afternoons six days a week and almost every night special meetings are scheduled. See the schedule for open hours and activities held at the center. Our center hosts field numerous phone calls seeking business and service referrals as well as center activity information. We also field many calls and visits from people looking for a job, living quarters, health information, and professional services referrals. By having a place The Diversity Center provides services to our community members in the best way possible. If you are new in town, coming out, questioning or out and about and proud, The Diversity Center touches the lives of everyone in our community in some way - now more than ever.
