Organizations Filed Purposes:
Kara provides grief support for children, teens, families and adults. Guided by its core values of empathy and compassion, and belief that loss and grief impact everyone, Kara supports people of all ages on their journey through grief so they can move toward renewed hope and meaning.
Serving the SF Bay Area since 1976, Kara provides comprehensive grief support and education services to the community through individual and group peer support; in-house psychotherapy; on site crisis intervention; bereavement education and training services; Camp Kara, a bereavement camp for children 6-17 years old; and community events. Staff and over 200 trained volunteers provide the care, compassion, connection, and community necessary to facilitate healing for those who ae grieving. Peer support grief services are provided on a donation basis and without limit to the duration. In addition, fee-based therapeutic services are provided on a sliding scale.Karas services are designed to meet the unique needs of those coping with loss and grief. These services are provided through the following programs: Youth & Family Services and Adult Services: These two programs offer extensive and high quality services to meet the unique needs of individuals (children, adolescents, adults and seniors) and families who have experienced a loss or are anticipating a death. Services are provided in both group and individual formats and in English and Spanish. Community Outreach and Training & Education Services: Kara provides on- site critical incident and crisis intervention and grief education services to schools, companies and community organizations dealing with death, trauma, and loss. Clinical Therapy Services: Kara provides individual, couples and family therapy (on a sliding-scale basis) for those whose grief is coupled with clinical issues that necessitate support beyond what a peer-support model can provide, such as depression, substance abuse, anxiety or PTSD. Community Events: Annual WalknRun to Remember, Annual Day of the Dead (Da de los Muertos) Celebration, and Annual Candlelight Service of Remembrance2019 AccomplishmentsKara served over 6,500 Bay Area community members with highlights as follows: Compassionate volunteers provided individual and group grief support to 1,193 adults and children.Clinical staff and associates served 104 individuals with grief-specific therapy, providing 1,611 sessions.We reached 2,403 individuals through onsite crisis support, education and training, serving 68 organizations.Caring staff offered grief consultations and community referrals to 855 individuals.2,100 individuals attended our community & outreach events, bringing awareness and connection to bereaved individuals.232 volunteers provided 14,258 hours in service to the bereavedAn organization that was served by Kara shared the following: Kara was the most incredible resource. We tragically lost an employee in a car accident, and we are a very close-knit company. Kara was incredibly responsive, understanding, flexible, and caring. I cannot rave about Kara more. Thank you for everything.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| James A Santucci | Executive Dir. | 40 | $143,798 |
| Elisa Odabashian | At Large | 1 | $0 |
| Jessica Matsumori | At Large | 1 | $0 |
| Margarita Malagon | At Large | 1 | $0 |
| Priscilla Lau | At Large | 1 | $0 |
| William J Goines | At Large | 1 | $0 |
| Rose Chen | At Large | 1 | $0 |
| Warren Chiang | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Paul G Resnick | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Matt Watts | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
| Kimberly Griffin | President | 4 | $0 |
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