Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo

2010-2011

The Alliance for Children’s Rights - Adoption and Guardianship: Pathways to Stable Families
The Alliance for Children's Rights is a free legal services organization dedicated solely to protecting the rights of abused and impoverished children. The Alliance’s Adoption and Guardianship program provides expedited adoption and post-adoption services for children in the foster care system. The program also provides assistance and legal services for caregivers who provide a safety net through legal guardianship for abandoned children who are at risk of ending up in the foster care system. http://kids-alliance.org/

APA Family Support Services - Child Abuse Prevention Program
APA Family Support Services is a not-for-profit organization that promotes healthy families and prevents child abuse and domestic violence in Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities. The Child Abuse Prevention Program provides services, such as home visits and referrals, to monolingual Asian and Pacific Islander (API) families whose children are at high-risk for abuse or are neglected and who have been referred to Child Protective Services. http://www.apasfgh.org/

CALICO Center - Child Abuse Training Initiative
CALICO Center is a multi-disciplinary interview center designed to support children and youth who are victims of sexual abuse, severe physical abuse, or are witnesses to domestic violence or homicide. The Child Abuse Training Initiative will provide training to Alameda County professionals (e.g., child welfare workers, police officers, attorneys, etc.) in child abuse investigation and response, inter-agency communication and interactions, and the child advocacy center model. The initiative will also respond to the increase in forensic interviews that results from training. http://www.calicocenter.org/

Community Violence Solutions - Children's Interview Center
Community Violence Solutions (CVS) is a not-for-profit organization that works to end sexual assault and family violence through prevention, crisis services, and treatment. Through the Children’s Interview Center (CIC), CVS provides child-centered, forensic interviews (conducted in English and Spanish), therapy, case management, and referrals to sexually abused children. The CIC also provides community outreach and first responder training to professionals and cyber safety workshops or events for parents and caregivers. http://www.cvsolutions.org/

Compass Family Services - Compass Family Resource Center
Compass Family Services is a not-for-profit organization that provides housing, education, and employment services to homeless and extremely low-income parents and children. Compass Family Resource Center (CFRC) is a city-wide resource center for families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. CFRC aims to mitigate problems of separation, isolation, abuse and neglect through services that include support groups, classes, a drop-in center, and individualized support.  The program seeks to improve overall family functioning in order to support healthy child development. http://www.compass-sf.org/

Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department - Enhanced Family Visitation Program
Contra Costa County Children and Family Services (CFS), a Bureau of the Employment and Human Services Department (EHSD), provides mandated child welfare services in the County. Contra Costa County’s Enhanced Family Visitation Program provides alternate supervised visitation opportunities for families involved in the Child Welfare System through community-based, family visitation centers that are easily accessible for the children, their families, and their care providers. The primary goal is to increase family visitation and improve timely reunification outcomes for children and families involved in the child welfare system. http://www.ehsd.org/intro.html

Edgewood Center for Children and Families - Family Finding, Involvement, and Engagement (FFIE)
The Edgewood Center is a children’s charity offering innovative mental health, family support, and educational services. The goal of the Family Finding project is to identify family connections for Edgewood Center’s Vicente Campus youth residents who are severely emotionally disturbed and/or learning disabled, most often as a result of physical abuse, sexual abuse, prenatal drug exposure, or severe neglect. The Family Finding program finds the residents’ family members, helps them develop safe and loving relationships, and provides support in order to promote sustainable lifelong connections and/or permanent living situations. http://www.edgewood.org/

FamiliesFirst - Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP)
FamiliesFirst is a not-for-profit organization that provides services to vulnerable children and families. The Kinship Support Services Program provides services to relative caregivers so youth can remain with their families and communities and avoid placement in non-related foster care homes. The program provides respite opportunities for kin caregivers, case management services, youth enrichment groups, and temporary emergency financial assistance. The primary goal of the Kinship Support Services Program is to meet the needs of relative caregivers in order that they may be able to effectively care for the children in their care. http://www.familiesfirstinc.org/

First Place for Youth - Policy Initiative Project
First Place for Youth is a Bay Area -based nonprofit organization founded to promote the long-term mental, physical, and economic health amongst the growing, yet largely neglected, population of youth who “age out” of the foster care system. The Policy Initiative Project will increase First Place for Youth’s efforts in supporting policy changes at the federal level, work to sustain funding at the state level, and raise the level of awareness and knowledge in the field of transitioning foster youth by disseminating First Place’s best practices model. The project’s goal is to improve the lives of current and former foster youth. http://www.firstplaceforyouth.org/

La Casa de Las Madres - Domestic Violence Drop In Counseling Center
La Casa de Las Madres is a not-for-profit organization that provides services to victims of domestic violence. The Domestic Violence Drop In Counseling Center (DIC) is a resource for victims and survivors of domestic violence offering free, confidential and multilingual crisis response, intervention, and prevention services. DIC seeks to resource, practically and emotionally, women and children who have experienced domestic violence to prevent further trauma and abuse, interrupt the intergenerational transfer of the cycle of violence, and enable healing.  Project activities include safety planning, individual and family counseling, support groups, psycho-educational workshops, and case management activities. http://www.lacasadelasmadres.org/

La Clínica de La Raza, Inc. - Familias Sanas
La Clínica de La Raza is a not-for-profit organization that provides culturally appropriate, high quality and accessible health services. The Familias Sanas program provides culturally (Latino) and linguistically (Spanish) accessible specialty services to monolingual Spanish and/or limited English-speaking families and children who have experienced child abuse or are at risk of abuse/neglect. Using strength-based interventions that are grounded in cultural values, resiliency, and empowerment, Familias Sanas seeks to break intergenerational patterns of abuse. http://www.laclinica.org/

The Link to Children - Using Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention to Prevent Child Abuse of Children 0-5 Years of Age
The Link to Children is a non-profit community based organization providing low-income high-risk children 0-5 years of age with a better start in life. The Link to Children’s Using Mental Health program provides free or affordable bi-lingual, culturally competent early intervention mental health services to children 0-5 years of age and to their families and teachers, at child development centers where the children are enrolled. Services include play therapy, screening and testing to determine if additional services (such as language, communication or sensory integration) are needed, parenting counseling, parent education classes and teacher training. http://www.thelinktochildren.org/

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital - Training, Treatment, and Prevention: Enabling the SCAN Team at Packard Children’s to Provide the Best Possible Care
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is a non-profit hospital devoted to the care of infants, children, adolescents, and expectant mothers. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s Training, Treatment, and Prevention program sustains and strengthens its SCAN multi-disciplinary task force created to recognize, assess, and respond to physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect of children. As part of the program, the Hospital will also purchase specialized equipment for conducting physical and sexual abuse examinations and capturing forensic documentation. http://www.lpch.org/ and http://www.lpfch.org/

San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center - Child Advocacy Center
The San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center is the lead agency of a city-wide, collaborative effort to create a Child Advocacy Center (CAC) in San Francisco. The San Francisco CAC will be a comprehensive facility equipped to respond to incidents of suspected child maltreatment and exposure to intimate partner violence. The collaborative, multidisciplinary CAC Initiative draws together public and private partners to assess, investigate, review, and follow each case of suspected child abuse, and to collaborate on ongoing treatment of victims, their families, and perpetrators – all in one centralized location. http://www.sfcapc.org/

San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center - Safety Web Program
The San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center’s Safety Web Program provides child safety awareness trainings to children in grades K-5, teachers, school administrators, and parents. Trainers provide classroom education to children, and also teach parents how to reinforce child safety awareness. The program ensures that children learn positive personal safety skills, and that parents understand how to reinforce those skills and how to respond to disclosed or suspected abuse. Mandated reporter trainings for teachers and school administrators ensure that they understand their responsibility to report suspected child abuse and neglect. http://www.sfcapc.org/

San Francisco Court Appointed Advocates (SFCASA) - Volunteer Advocacy for San Francisco Children in Foster Care
The San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates is a community based organization which recruits, screens, trains, and supervises volunteers who become sworn officers of the court and serve as advocates and mentors for abused and neglected children. Advocates provide judges with information so that they can make sound decisions for children. SFCASA’s Volunteer Advocacy program supports the recruitment, screening, training, and supervision of Program volunteers to meet continuing client service needs. The long-range goal is to achieve permanency, expand opportunity, and improve quality of life for an annually increasing number of San Francisco’s children in foster care. http://www.sfcasa.org/

Shelter Network of San Mateo County - Family and Children's Support Project
Shelter Network is the primary provider of housing and services for San Mateo County’s homeless families and individuals. The goal of the Family and Children’s Support Project is to provide mental health services to address the emotional distress that an episode of homelessness has on young children and to improve family functioning of at-risk families. Children and adults living in Shelter Network’s homeless shelters will receive on-site counseling services provided by graduate-level interns, who will be supervised by mental health professionals. http://www.shelternetwork.org/

University of California San Francisco - Training and Consultation: Building Capacity to Prevent and Address Child Abuse in Young Families Affected by Violence
The UCSF Child Trauma Research Program’s Training and Consultation project will provide training and technical assistance to San Francisco-based agencies.  The goal of the project is to train the organizations in appropriately identifying, assessing, and intervening in the area of violence exposure during pregnancy and early childhood with the goal of preventing child abuse in infancy and early childhood. Training strategies will include didactic seminars offered to community agencies and individualized training and technical assistance. http://www.ucsf.edu/

WestCoast Children’s Clinic - Sexually Exploited Minors Research-to-Action Project
WestCoast Children’s Clinic is a private, non-profit community psychology clinic. WestCoast’s Sexually Exploited Minors Research-to-Action Project is a demographic, clinical and intervention research project conducted in order to launch a comprehensive advocacy strategy for sexually exploited minors. The synthesized data will be shared across the network of organizations in Alameda County that treat commercially sexually exploited minors. http://www.westcoastcc.org/