PARENTING SERVICES

♥ Parent Empowerment Programs

Our In-Home Parent Empowerment Programs deliver critically-needed, life-altering parenting strategies and education to struggling families in their own homes. At the heart of these programs, which can last up to 12 months, is intensive, one-on-one educational sessions designed to interrupt the cycle of abuse and keep families together.

Home Visitation-Infant provides at-risk parents of newborns from birth to 17 months essential parenting education and a link to community resources to help ease the adjustment following the birth of a new baby. Home Visitation-Toddler helps deliver critically-needed, intensive parenting strategies to families with children from 18 months to 5 years of age that are either in a prolonged state of crisis or are at risk for abuse.

♥ Specialty Focused Prevention Services

In-Home Coach helps at-risk families who have suspected or confirmed cases of child abuse and are referred by the County of Orange Social Services Agency. The abuse can consist of neglect, physical, sexual, or emotional child abuse. Our goal is to provide preventative services to keep the abuse from occurring again.

Monitored and Supervised Visitation provides a safe and supervised environment for children to meet with non-custodial parents and family. Neighbor to Neighbor reaches out to families who have been referred by concerned teachers, neighbors, and other professionals and are in need of preventative services.

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

♥ In-Home Crisis Stabilization is comprised of a team of clinicians and mental health workers who offer short-term, in-home therapy and case management services. In partnership with the Orange County Health Care Agency, our team is available 24/7 to support children and families in crisis. The overall goal is to maintain family stabilization and prevent out of home placement or psychiatric hospitalization.

♥ In-Home Mental Health provides an 8-10 week in-home mental health service, including assessment, treatment planning, counseling, therapy and resource referral.

♥ Outreach and Engagement promotes mental health and wellness for children and teens in unserved and underserved communities by raising awareness, assessing children's and family's mental health & other service needs, providing community linkages and increasing knowledge of protective and risk factors that affect children's mental health,

GROUP SERVICES, PANELS AND SEMINARS

♥ Teen Voices/Teen Choices provides an interactive seminar focused on the important issue of teen dating violence presented to 7th through 12th grade students. Our goal is to create a learning experience in which students learn what dating violence is, how to recognize unhealthy relationships, understand why it may be difficult to leave a violent/abusive relationship, and learn about available resources for support and information.

♥ Helping Kids Cope is a one-time co-parenting workshop designed to teach parents how to minimize the negative and potentially long-term effects of separation or divorce on their children, and how to develop the skills needed to form a workable, co-parenting relationship for their children.

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

♥ Basic Needs provides critical, basic household items to families going through the reunification process in order to reunite the family in a healthy and safe home.

ADVOCATE SERVICES

♥ Child Abuse Services Team (CAST) utilizes Prevention Center volunteer advocates to work with victims of child abuse. The CAST program conducts multidisciplinary child sexual abuse, physical abuse and violent trauma investigations in a child-focused, child-sensitive environment to reduce further trauma to the child. It is collaboration among social services, law enforcement, deputy district attorneys, medical providers, and therapists. CAST conducts coordinated on-site services for the child victim and their family.