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GRANITE WELLNESS CENTERS GENERAL SERVICES - GWC

GRANITE WELLNESS CENTERS #86936500


location_on A
  • 406 Sunrise Avenue, Suite #105
    Roseville, Placer

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.
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COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE OF TAHOE TRUCKEE - TTCF

TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION #69026272


location_on B
  • 11071 Donner Pass Road
    Truckee, Nevada

A collaborative that provides community resources, advocacy and outreach in the Truckee-Tahoe area. CCTT is a program of Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation.

CCTT's vision is to create a safe, healthy, and enriching environment for children, youth, and families. Guiding principles include: help assess and prioritize community strengths and needs; convene and facilitate a community response; build capacity within the community; promote collaboration; and promote advocacy and leadership.

MISSION
CCTT is a partnership of non-profit and public organizations working together to address fundamental needs of families in the Tahoe Truckee Region. Collectively, we identify emerging community issues and develop strategies with our combined vision and resources. We do this by: promoting collaboration, holding the regional "big picture", assessing and prioritizing community needs, convening and facilitating a community response, building capacity in organizations and community members, promoting advo… [read more]
RESOURCES & SUPPORT FOR FOSTER FAMILIES - CAC

CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CAREGIVERS #73961916


location_on C
  • 980 9th Street Suite 1600
    Sacramento, Sacramento

California Alliance of Caregivers
  • serves foster, kinship, guardian, and adoptive families
  • provides one one-on-one assistance to families who need to connect to resources and benefits that are specifically for children and youth currently in or from foster care
  • provides free parent training and resources for all parents, but they are directed toward parents caring for children with mental health needs
  • hosts weekly, virtual, facilitated support groups
  • has a leadership coalition around the state that supports families at the local level
Trainings are free for all parents and caregivers. Training and support are primarily targeted to parents and caregivers of children in or from foster care; and children with mental health needs.

Web pages
FREE CALIFORNIA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FOR UNHOUSED PEOPLE - HC

HOUSING CALIFORNIA #82876115


location_on D
  • 1107 9th Street, Suite 560
    Sacramento, Sacramento

Housing California has information about how homeless services providers can assist people experiencing homelessness in getting a free copy of a California birth certificate. 

See details about process and eligibility at these web pages (a homeless service provider* must be involved):Please note that Housing California does not issue birth certificates. It provides information on how to obtain them at the links above.

* What is a “homeless service provider?”
  • i.) A governmental or nonprofit agency receiving federal, state, or county or municipal funding to provide services to a “homeless person” or “homeless child or youth,” or that is otherwise sanctioned to provide those services by a local homeless continuum of care or…
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FIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE, YOUTH FIRESETTER PROGRAM

FIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE, YOUTH FIRESETTER PROGRAM #65630940


location_on E
  • 3101 Stockton Boulevard
    Sacramento, Sacramento
local_phone
  • Phone 1
    916-739-8525

If your child has experimented with fire, sign him or her up for the Firefighters Burn Institute Youth Firesetter Program. Call their toll free number 1 (888) 452-SAFE (7233) or email them from the Contact Tab above. Their program provides staff for pre-academy interviews with the child involved in firesetting and his/her family, a fire safety academy completed in two sessions is also provided. As part of the academy, children will learn:

-Fire safety education
-Fire hazard recognition
-Home escape planning
-Responsibility
-Problem solving skills
-Natural & legal consequences
-Communication
-Thinking errors
-Peer pressure
-Leadership skills
-Dealing with and sharing feelings.

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

GENDER SPECTRUM #65630952


location_on F
  • 1271 Washington Ave. #834
    San Leandro, Alameda

LGBTQ+
  • Trainings
  • Professional Development
  • No-cost Resources
  • Gender Support Plan

Gender Spectrum helps to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens through providing an array of services to help youth, families, organizations and institutions understand and address concepts of Gender identity and Gender expression, including how societal, cultural, organizational and community definitions of gender can be detrimental to any young person that does not fit neatly into these categories.

Gender Spectrum offers resources to empower your relationships, work, and interactions with youth and children. Gender Spectrum provides you with the tools necessary to create gender inclusive environments in your homes, offices, and communities.

Gender Spectrum provides:
  • How-to guides
  • Online Consultations
  • Online Groups
  • Research
  • Sample training materials

Websites:
PROGRAMS - FWV

FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE #70646253


location_on G
  • Main Office: Futures Without Violence
    San Francisco, San Francisco

Futures Without Violence is a health and social justice nonprofit with a simple mission: to heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and to create healthy families and communities free of violence tomorrow.
 
Futures Without Violence's programs, policy development, and public action campaigns are designed to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world in areas such as (but not limited to): [read more]
NATIONAL BULLYING PREVENTION CENTER - PACER

PACER #79586352


location_on H
  • PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center - Los Angeles area office
    Thousand Oaks, Ventura

Founded in 2006, PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center actively leads social change to prevent childhood bullying, so that all youth are safe and supported in their schools, communities, and online. https://www.pacer.org/bullying/

The center offers many online resources for bullying prevention including: [read more]
FREE CALIFORNIA PHOTO ID FOR UNHOUSED PEOPLE - HC

HOUSING CALIFORNIA #82875839


Housing California has information about how homeless services providers can assist people experiencing homelessness in getting a free California photo ID. 

See details about process and eligibility at these web pages (a homeless service provider* must be involved):Please note that Housing California does not issue photo IDs. It provides information on how to obtain them at the links above.

* What is a “homeless service provider?”
  • i.) A governmental or nonprofit agency receiving federal, state, or county or municipal funding to provide services to a “homeless person” or “homeless child or youth,” or that is otherwise sanctioned to provide those services by a local homeless continuum of care organization.
  • ii.) An attorney licensed to practice law i…
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POSITIVE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES - HOPE

HEALTHY OUTCOMES FROM POSITIVE EXPERIENCES (HOPE) #76983393


Positive experiences can ease toxic stress and help children and youth grow into more resilient, healthier adults. Positive experiences can help counteract the affects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) identifies ways that our communities and systems of care can better ensure that all children have more positive experiences and that all families have support to nurture and celebrate their strengths.

The Four Building Blocks of HOPE are composed of key positive childhood experiences (PCEs). The sources of those experiences and opportunities are the foundation for healthy childhood development. 

Four Building Blocks of HOPE (Positive Childhood Experiences) - https://positiveexperience.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/4BBs-Poster.pdf
  • Relationships within the family and with other children and adults through interpersonal activities.
  • Safe, equitable, stable environments for living, playing, learning at home and in sc…
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