Bellflower Center For Prevention Of Child Abuse, Inc.

Programs: All programs are classified under a combined service called counseling. This includes diagnostic assessment which is provided as an initial evaluation and planning component for all agency mental health programs. All assessments are done on a face-to-face basis. Individual counseling provides therapy for children and adults who are dealing with consequences of child abuse and neglect. Individual counseling consist of a series of time-limited, structured, face-to-face sessions that work toward the attainment of goals. Group services include the teen parent group, the children's treatment group and the adult survivors groups. The teen parent group is a therapeutic prgram providing a setting in which teens address needs which have been identified in the diagnostic assessment and defined as goals in the individualized service plan (isp). Needs may include, but are not limited to those associated with the struggles of balancing teen parenthood with the normal challenges and stresses of adolescense. In addition to development stresses, many of the group participants are themselves, survivors of abuse and/or neglect. The program is availabe to pregnant and parenting teens, ages 12 through 19, who meet admission criteria. The children's treatment group is for children who have been sexually abused, neglected or subjected to extreme trauma. The adult survivors groups are designed to meet the treatment needs of adult survivors of emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse and neglect. The personal safety skills training for children program is a classroom program designed to keep children safe, particularly from sexual abuse, by empowering them with the knowledge that they can say "no" to an adult or an older child teaching them how to seek help when they have a problem or concern. The overall goal of the program is to enhance the awareness of abuse issues and to increase parents', teachers' and children's skills to ensure prevention and reduction of children's risk from abuse. The program includes three one-half hour sessions for children and one hour session for the teachers. Children receive a booklet reviewing the personal safety curriculum to reinforce the program. Parents are encouraged to read and discuss the booklet with their children. Teachers receive handouts with information on child abuse recognition and appropriate action to take when abuse is suspected.