Community Of Resource & Resolution (CORR)
CORR is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide recovery resources for sexual assault survivors, perpetrators, families, and the greater community. CORR was founded by Caprice Haverty, Ph.D. in December 2008 after she had spent twenty years treating people with histories of sexual assault and recognizing the lack of ongoing community support.
CORR is one of few nonprofit support programs for those who have caused sexual harm. We offer several cost-free, monthly support groups where open dialogue, ongoing accountability, and continued involvement with paraprofessionals, professionals, peers, family members, friends, victims, and the community are provided. Attendees come together to share a meal, lend encouragement, problem solve, raise funds, and help one another with challenges such as employment, housing, and everyday accountability and responsibilities.
CORR’s main purpose is to help those who have caused sexual harm as they seek to support each other, their victims, their victim’s families, and to repair the damage of their harm. We help them to integrate with their families and victims through their commitment to do no harm, to offer amends where possible, and to support prevention by contributing to the eradication of sexual abuse. CORR provides treatment referrals and financial assistance to aid healing where necessary. We also support those who have not caused sexual harm but who feel they are at risk for doing so.
2024
A year of growth and impact
2024 was another milestone year for CORR, marked by exciting achievements and expanding outreach. Our first-ever commercial fundraiser with Krispy Kreme Doughnuts raised over $1,000 in donations, supporting our mission to bring hope and healing to those in need.
We were honored to participate in the Solano Stroll (Berkeley/Albany), an event that drew over 150,000 attendees. This and other public engagements provided valuable opportunities to share CORR’s message and connect more people with our support groups.
This year also saw the addition of two dedicated leaders to our Board of Directors—Jamie Edson and Amanda Purves—whose expertise and passion will help guide CORR’s continued growth.
A highlight of the year was our founder, Caprice Haverty, PhD, presenting a professional paper on CORR’s success and approaches at the international Association for the Treatment & Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA) conference in San Antonio, Texas. Her presentation was well received garnering interest in CORR’s model as one of few nonprofit support programs for those who have caused sexual harm.
With consistent service delivery, increased participation, and a strong foundation, we look ahead to 2025 with excitement and enthusiasm, ready to expand our impact even further.
President’s Welcome
CORR has moved me personally
I spent my life believing: Men who commit sexual assault are bad people who will never change. The discovery that my wife had been sexually abused by her father, hardened this belief.
In 2011, my wife was hired as an administrative assistant by Caprice Haverty, PhD, and Anna Weisberg, PhD, co-Executive Directors at A Step Forward, Inc. located in Northern California. A Step Forward’s mission is to support the prevention and eradication of sexual assault through the treatment of individuals impacted by sexual assault, a mission it has carried for more than thirty years. In 2008, A Step Forward created CORR (Community Of Resource & Resolution), the only non-profit program in existence offering free support groups for people with histories of sexual assault.
Alongside her time at A Step Forward, I watched my wife attend to the hard work of confronting her own history of abuse. In addition to the healing she discovered; she was able to access compassion for the men served at A Step Forward.
In 2016, I decided to attend a CORR community meeting with her. I wanted to meet the people she was encountering in these gatherings. Within a few meetings, my judgment began to shift. My pre-conceived notions were challenged. I could see that these people were remorseful and responsible. Moreover, I could see that their accountability was strengthened and supported by CORR.
I have not missed a community meeting since. I am so relieved and grateful to be able to see and feel the humanity in people with histories of committing sexual assault. It is my experience that those at CORR continue to deepen the work begun in treatment, changing themselves and supporting similar people. They are committed to preventing further sexual assault.
I am proud to be the board president of CORR, supporting people to do the right thing by their victims, their victim’s families, and the needs of the wider community I am honored to support.
Again, welcome to our website and please feel free to join us at a suitable CORR meeting.
Bob Jones – President, CORR Board of Directors