Counseling:
The ROC's compassionate social workers offer support to people going through a wide variety of challenges in order to help them learn new ways to cope and to thrive.
Play Therapy:
The ROC offers play therapy to children who have a variety of mental health challenges, behavioral problems, complex family issues, and histories of trauma as a way to help them heal, grow, and succeed.
Care Coordination:
The ROC's care coordinators work collaboratively with Participants and team members to provide the best possible resources to ensure Participants are successful in reaching self-sufficiency.
Changing Lives
Rural Poverty
There are over 40,000 people in poverty in the southern WNY zip codes we serve. Rural poverty is called the invisible poverty because it is hidden and dispersed across a wide geographic area, making it difficult to provide services. The ROC is here to fill that service gap.
Empowering
The ROC gives more than charity – it gives hope through empowerment
Breaking the Cycle
The ROC works to break the cycle of poverty by focusing on children, offering trauma reducing therapy through play to almost 70 children
Help & support
The ROC serves over 40,000 living in poverty over a 50 square mile area of southern Western New York
Changing Lives
We touch the lives of over 1500 people each year through outreach programs and we engage over 150 people in empowering them to change their lives
The ROC shares
Stories of Hope
Meet three individuals who, with the ROC's support, have made tremendous progress.
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ROC Summer Enrichment Program
The disparity that we see in ROC Participants' children and those of means in our community is alarming. We continue to be concerned about connectivity, educational and emotional support in rural homes. Our Summer Enrichment Program will engage rural children for 5 weeks.
Basic Human Needs
Participants seeking services at the ROC often have difficulty meeting basic human needs. We noticed a continued need in this area throughout 2019. Participants had difficulty maintaining housing, food, utilities, clothing, and transportation. Can you cover the cost of groceries for a family for a week?
Play Therapy and Theraplay
Young children that have been traumatized can express their feelings so they can resolve and overcome challenges in a safe environment to help them develop better emotional control and social skills. Can you provide an hour of therapy for a child?
