Let's Eat Healthy!(a local name for CalFresh Healthy Living, UC Placer/Nevada Counties) provides comprehensive, hands-on nutrition education as well as produce tastings, gardening, physical activity, and cooking activities to qualifying schools, youth organizations, and adult groups. The vision of Let’s Eat Healthy! is to help CalFresh-eligible children and families in Placer and Nevada Counties to maintain healthy lifestyles through wise food choices and physical activity. 

Each school year theLet's Eat Healthy! program staff serves over 2,800 children by teaching nutrition lessons and providing evidence-based nutrition curricula, trainings, and materials to teachers in qualifying schools and area educators at no cost. We reach hundreds of CalFresh-eligible adults through workshops and newsletters as well as family events. Please view our  program fact sheet for more information.

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Children's System Of Care (CSOC) has a Crisis/Child Welfare Services (CWS) Report Line to meet the special needs of children and youth who may be at risk, and their families, in Placer County.

CHILDREN EMERGENCY SERVICES - Placer County Crisis & Emergency Services
If your life is in danger or you need to report an emergency situation, call 911.

A telephone call can bring help in a crisis. For at-risk children in emergencies and crisis situations, a special 24-hour, 7-day a week, response program is available by calling Family and Children's Services: 916-872-6549 or toll free 866-293-1940.

CSOC Services

• 24-hour response for minors at risk of abuse or neglect
• Adoptions and Foster Home placement and licensing
• Behavioral and Mental Health Services - https://www.placer.ca.gov/2052/Childrens-Mental-Health-Services
• Child Welfare services
• Foster youth educational assistance (Placer County Office of Education) - https://www.placercoe.org/Pages/PCOE/Home.aspx
• Placer County …

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In Placer County, Lilliput provides a variety of services to children and families touched by foster care, adoption and kinship care.

We welcome community referrals and look for opportunities to partner with other service providers to better meet the needs of the community.

Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP): A kinship family is formed when an extended family member, such as a grandparent, aunt/uncle or sibling, steps in to raise a child when the birth parent(s) are unable or unavailable.

Families served do not have to be formally connected to the foster care system.

Services provided:

• Family Finding and Engagement
• In-home Support
• Counseling
• Support Groups
• Information & Referrals
• Advocacy
• Assistance with Basic Needs
• Legal Referrals
• Children’s activities and supports Foster-Adoption Program

Lilliput’s child-focused foster family and adoption program has the goal of placing foster children into homes that are well trained and supported to facilitate a child’s return home to birth fa… [read more]

Sprouts is a Trauma Informed Care Preschool Program under the umbrella of the Children's Receiving Home of Sacramento.

The Children's Receiving Home of Sacramento is committed to positively impacting the lives of children, youth and families affected by abuse, neglect,and trauma in California.

The Sprouts program offers a warm and playful atmosphere with a variety of therapeutic services for the very youngest survivors of abuse, neglect and other childhood traumas; ages 2-5 years.

Our services include but are not limited to: a therapeutic preschool, developmental assessments, mental health assessments, individual and group therapy, behavioral interventions, family education and support.

Sprouts aims to support children who have a difficult time maintaining traditional preschool or daycare placements due to a mental health diagnosis, social, emotional and behavioral challenges.

The Sprouts program aims to increase placement stability and increase health and wellness of young children and th… [read more]

California Alliance of Caregivers…

• serves foster, kinship, guardian and adoptive families
• provides 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 is primarily targeted to parents and caregivers of children in or from foster care; and children with mental health needs.

https://www.cacaregivers.org/info/

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):

• Information for Providers - https://www.housingca.org/resources/community/providers/help-someone-get-ca-birthcert/?highlight=birth%20certificate
• Information for Individuals - https://www.housingca.org/resources/community/individuals/get-ca-birthcert/

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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The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians opened the Shingle Springs Tribal TANF Program June 1st, 2010 and now provides TANF assistance and related support services to eligible Native Americans and their families residing in El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento Counties in California.

The Shingle Springs Tribal TANF Program incorporates culture and traditions into all aspects of the program in order to strengthen and solidify the Native families and assist in addressing and resolving issues which create barriers to self sufficiency.

The Shingle Springs Tribal TANF Program provides important tools and skills which empower Native families in becoming self-sufficient, so they can support and nurture themselves, their children, families, and community.

Some of the types of assistance and supportive services which the Shingle Springs Tribal TANF Program provides to eligible Native families include:
- Monthly Assistance
- Educational Development
- Career Development
- Vocational T… [read more]

Info about bus fares and passes for Nevada County Connects, the public bus system in Western Nevada County is at https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/2259/Fares-and-Passes

Discounted bus fares are available for qualified seniors, people with disabilities, and youth passengers - children 5 years and younger ride free. 

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.

Offers diagnostic and treatment services, medical case management, and therapy for child and youth up to age 21.

California Children Services (CCS) is a statewide program that treats children with certain physical limitations and chronic conditions or diseases. Most physically handicapping conditions are eligible for benefits under the CCS program. The CCS Program is funded by the state, county and federal tax money, along with some fees paid by the parents. This tax supported program authorizes and pays for specific medical services and rehabilitation for children by CCS approved specialists and has a Medical Therapy Program (MTU).