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Causes: Child Abuse Prevention, Crime & Law, Domestic Violence, Family Services, Half-Way Houses for Offenders & Ex-Offenders, Human Services, Protection Against Abuse
Mission: To stimulate community concern, understanding, and action for the early identification, intervention and treatment of child abuse. To provide public information and education on child abuse. To reduce the long-term negative effects of child abuse on the child victim and family by providing an effective treatment program for victims, offenders, and family members in a coordinated community response system.
Programs: Child protective services - this program provides mental health outpatient services to children and youth referred by child protective services (cps) through the sacramento county child and family access team. These children and their families are medi-cal eligible which qualifies them for funding from the early periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment (epsdt) program. Child & family institute's services include providing individual, group and family therapy, and case management services as needed for the children and their collateral family members. Cfi ceased programmatic activities effective 4/1/17.
victim witness - funding is available from the california victim compensation fund for victims of child abuse. Child & family institute provides mental health treatment services to children and their families who have made a crime report or a child abuse report and have been approved by the state board of control. Referrals come from a variety of sources, including self-referrals, social workers, educators, medical personnel and law enforcement. Child and family institute's outpatient services include providing individual, group and family therapy, and case management services as needed for the children and their collateral family members. Cfi ceased programmatic activities effective 4/1/17.
child abuse treatment program (chat) is founded by the california governor's office of emergency services, to support child and family institute in providing services for child victims of abuse and neglect, abduction, domestic and community violence and high tech crimes. Through outpatient, outreach treatment and case management services, child & family institute provides continuity and consistency of care to child victims, including proactive collaboration and cooperation with other service providers to avoid fragmentation and duplication of services.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.