After the horrific Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019, community and county leaders opened a support center in the city to help those victims struggling to cope with the tragedy. But it soon b…
Sylvia Mata Amaral, program manager of the Mariposas Resiliency Center in Gilroy, Calif., helps ring in the new center. After the horrific Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019, community and county leaders opened a support center in the city to help those victims struggling to cope with the tragedy. But it soon became apparent to many that victims of all violent crimes needed help.
To celebrate the grand opening, the center featured art from students around the county and music from Gilroy’s Brownwell Middle School Choir, with several local leaders and police representatives attending the event, including Santa Cruz County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen and Gilroy Mayor Marie Blankley.
However, the team at Gilroy Strong soon noticed that some victims of other violent crimes would come to seek help. Because it was funded by a federal grant that was meant to support those affected by the shooting, they were limited in how much help they could provide — sometimes referring victims to resources 30 miles away, said Sylvia Mata Amaral, program manager for the new center.A two year, $1.
“It’s already really challenging to take that first step to ask for help or to seek assistance,” she said. “We’re trying to make it as easy as possible and sort of as inviting as possible to try to get that support.”
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