Spring Break
Campus Pregnancy Support Team: To hold back your hair
Kimberly Tsao
Issue date: 5/13/09 Section: Features
The organization does, however, provide something else.
"The Community Pregnancy Centers offer an abortion retreat for women who have had a negative experience with abortion, where they can go and be together with other women and talk about the issues that they are having and that they are facing in a time where they can be together in community and support each other and work through their negative encounters with abortion so that they can be healed and make a full recovery," she said.
Jackson, a junior biology major, said the overnight abortion retreats usually occur on Fridays and Saturdays at various San Jose hotel locations.
Students can drop in or make an appointment to talk, she said. The drop-in sessions this semester were on Mondays, but the times are subject to change next semester, Jackson said. May 4 was their last meeting for the spring semester.
"We had schedules changing and with finals coming up, people have projects and presentations and we weren't available during those times," she said.
On other occasions, she said members might be sick or "they can't make it that particular day," so the sessions are canceled.
Usually, Jackson said, there are one to two peer counselors present in every time slot. The club currently has eight members, five of whom are trained peer counselors, she said.
They are taught "how to compassionately relate to people and how to support them in this time, just to make sure that everyone's kind of on the same page and everybody has accurate information," she said. The training lasts about six weeks.
Associated Students gave the team about $200 last semester when they requested approximately $500 for publicity purposes, she said. The organization is asking for $600 this semester, Jackson said.
"We are just trying to get off the ground and provide services to students at San Jose State and we're hoping to be growing soon," she said.
"The Community Pregnancy Centers offer an abortion retreat for women who have had a negative experience with abortion, where they can go and be together with other women and talk about the issues that they are having and that they are facing in a time where they can be together in community and support each other and work through their negative encounters with abortion so that they can be healed and make a full recovery," she said.
Jackson, a junior biology major, said the overnight abortion retreats usually occur on Fridays and Saturdays at various San Jose hotel locations.
Students can drop in or make an appointment to talk, she said. The drop-in sessions this semester were on Mondays, but the times are subject to change next semester, Jackson said. May 4 was their last meeting for the spring semester.
"We had schedules changing and with finals coming up, people have projects and presentations and we weren't available during those times," she said.
On other occasions, she said members might be sick or "they can't make it that particular day," so the sessions are canceled.
Usually, Jackson said, there are one to two peer counselors present in every time slot. The club currently has eight members, five of whom are trained peer counselors, she said.
They are taught "how to compassionately relate to people and how to support them in this time, just to make sure that everyone's kind of on the same page and everybody has accurate information," she said. The training lasts about six weeks.
Associated Students gave the team about $200 last semester when they requested approximately $500 for publicity purposes, she said. The organization is asking for $600 this semester, Jackson said.
"We are just trying to get off the ground and provide services to students at San Jose State and we're hoping to be growing soon," she said.
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