Wayfinder Family Services provides mental health, kinship, and family support services for children, youth, and caregivers in Placer County.

Programs include:

• Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP) – Free support for relatives or close family friends caring for children. Helps maintain family connections and avoid foster care placements. Call Wayfinder directly for referral.
• Home to Stay – Offers short-term in-home counseling and parent education for families at risk of out-of-home placement. Available by self-referral or provider referral. Call 530-722-2233 or email hometostay@wayfinderfamily.org.
• Be WELL Program – Mental health support groups for youth ages 14–17 and transitional-aged youth (18–25). Group or individual options available. Call 530-722-2233 for details.
• Specialty Mental Health Services – For children and youth ages 0–21. Referrals required through Placer County’s mental health access lines:
  • Children (0–17): 916-872-6549 or 866-293-1940
  • Adults (…

The Firefighters Burn Institute Youth Firesetter Program provides staff for pre-academy interviews with children involved in fire-setting. A fire safety academy completed in two sessions is also provided. As part of the academy, children learn:

• Fire safety education
• Fire hazard recognition
• Home escape planning
  
  

Placement for families who need counseling services is also part of the program.

Koinonia Family Services provides foster and adoption services throughout California and Nevada. While foster care and adoption accounts for the largest part of their organization, they also have programs to treat, support, and improve the lives of foster children, adoptive children, group home children, and at-risk youth and families.

Koinonia is also represents the interests and rights of children and young people in "the system" through regulatory and legislative advocacy.

Becoming a professional Foster Parent consists of:

• A Monthly reserve/stipend
• Mileage reimbursement to schools out of district
• Ongoing training
• Weekly in-home support
• 24 hour support
• Paid vacation time
• Respite care
• Discounts through IFoster.org
• CPR/First Aid
• CPI training
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://www.kfh.org/
• About Us - https://www.kfh.org/about/about-us/
• Locations - https://www.kfh.org/locations/

Stanford Sierra Youth and Families provides foster care, adoption, and family advocacy services for youth and families in Placer County.

Services include:

• Family Advocacy and Support – Helps families navigate behavioral health, child welfare, and educational systems through mentoring, coaching, and support.
• Pathways to Permanency – Offers foster care and adoption services with the goal of helping children find safe, stable, and permanent homes.

Web pages

• Home -  https://www.ssyaf.org/
• Family Advocacy and Support - https://www.ssyaf.org/family-advocacy-support
• Pathways to Permanency (Foster Care & Adoption) - https://www.ssyaf.org/pathways-permanency-1
• Pathways to Permanency Fact Sheet - https://www.ssyaf.org/sites/main/files/different_pathways_to_permanency_factsheet.pdf

Granite Wellness Centers (GWC), formerly known as Community Recovery Resources or CoRR, provides comprehensive services to promote wellness for individuals and families with a focus on addressing substance use disorders.

GWC is a source of naloxone, a medication used to rapidly reverse opioid overdose.

Granite Wellness offers residential and outpatient substance use disorder treatment services for adults and youth with personalized treatment plans including group and individual counseling and other services.

Granite Wellness also provides transitional housing up to six months for adult men, women, and women with young children for people enrolled in outpatient services. Other services include educational groups for parenting, anger management, DUI services, Resilient Child program, Family Educational Series, and more.

Services include:

• Inpatient treatment
• Outpatient treatment
• Medical services, including Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
• Detoxification services
• DUI classes
• Recovery resid…

Victor Community Support Services offers programs providing a wide variety of mental health and social support services to children, youth, young adults, and families.

Victor partners with behavioral health, child welfare, schools, and juvenile justice departments across California. To receive services, people must be referred by Nevada County Children's Behavioral Health or Child Welfare Services. Referrals from schools or the probation department must be funneled through behavioral health or child welfare.

Victor serves the youth and families of Nevada County through offices in

• Grass Valley - 900 East Main St, Suite 201, Grass Valley, CA 95945
• Truckee - 11209 Brockway Rd, Suite C306, Truckee, CA 96161 (moved from Levon Ave)

Below is a list of programs offered in Nevada County. Please visit the services page for more information.

• Wraparound Programs
• Child and Family Teaming
• Community Based Mental Health
• School Based Mental Health
• Adult Case Management

Web pages

• Home - https://www.victor.…

Victor Community Support Services offers programs providing a wide variety of mental health and social support services to children, youth, young adults, and families, including psychiatric services for children, youth, and adults. Victor partners with behavioral health, child welfare, and juvenile justice departments across California, tailoring services to meet each family’s needs.

Victor serves the youth and families of Placer County through its partnership with Placer County’s Coordinated System of Care. The office is in Roseville (moved from Rocklin). Below is a list of programs offered in Placer County. Please visit the services page or call 916-759-1168 for more information.

• Children and Youth Mental Health Services
• Adult Mental Health Services in North Lake Tahoe

Web pages

• Home - https://www.victor.org/
• Locations - https://www.victor.org/locations/
• Services - https://www.victor.org/services/

The Placer Sheriff’s Activities League is engaged in activities and events after school three days a week for local youth.

The events include mentoring, leadership and promote good decision making through sports and/or presentations. The program also implements a drug and gang prevention environment. Look under programs tab on website for specific details of each program.

The Placer Sheriff’s Activities League is facilitated at Parkside Church in Auburn and is hosted by a Placer County Sheriff’s Deputies, Placer County Probation, Children System of Care, Latino Leadership Counsel and KidsFirst.

The Placer Sheriff’s Activities League is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

The Placer Sheriff’s Activities League, along with its partnerships, will work and provide youth with valuable life skills benefiting themselves and the community. Strives to prevent youth involvement of gangs as well as drug use.

Web pages

• Home - http://www.placersal.com/