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
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Discounted bus fares are available for qualified seniors, people with disabilities, and youth passengers - children 5 years and younger ride free. https://mynevadacounty.com/2259/Fares-and-Passes

4 Elements Earth Education offers programs that introduce Earth Skills, which are a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness. Our curriculum and experienced instructors give children, teens and adults first-hand experience of how to 'read' the landscape as stewards of the Earth. Through our programs, a re-thinking of our relationship to nature begins to occur. 

Programs

• Fox Walkers Youth Programs, Nevada City, CA - https://www.4eee.org/foxwalkers.html
• Coyote Tracks Youth Programs, Pennsylvania & New Jersey - https://www.4eee.org/coyotetracks.html
• Family and Teen Programs, CA & NJ - https://www.4eee.org/teens--families.html
• ​Adult Programs, NJ - https://www.4eee.org/adults.html
• Scholarships - https://www.4eee.org/scholarships.html

Excel Roseville serves families in the neighborhood and is proud to sustain a healthy, stable environment and enrich the quality of life in the North Roseville neighborhood.

Excel Roseville helps create a positive impact on at-risk children’s lives with programs that are free to all participants.

Excel’s priorities are Education and Academic Support, Life skill training, as well as encouraging Creative outlets. They believe in giving youth chances to experience different opportunities that they would not otherwise have.

For children ages 4-19 the Excel Roseville after school program focuses on tutoring, one on one reading, art history, life skills, recreation and sports.

For teens ages 13-18 the Excel Roseville has a teen leadership program, with tutors available upon request.

Websites:

• Excel Roseville - https://excelroseville.net
• Community Impact - https://excelroseville.net/community-impact

Offers bilingual parenting education classes, ESL classes, bilingual peer counseling, therapy groups for children, and youth programs. Families receive assistance meeting basic needs through referrals and assistance with for housing, medical and dental services, food, and clothing.

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.

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:

• Gender Spectrum - https://www.genderspectrum.org/

Granite Wellness Centers (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.

In case of a medical emergency call 911 immediately. Granite Wellness Centers is a source of naloxone. Naloxone is a medication used to rapidly reverse opioid overdose. It can reverse and block the effects of opioids such as such as heroin, fentanyl, morphine, codeine, and oxycodone. Administered when a patient is showing signs of opioid overdose, naloxone’s overdose reversal is a temporary treatment and its effects do not last long. So call 911 immediately after administering/receiving naloxone (NARCAN is a brand of naloxone). Naloxone is easy to learn to administer and is an important drug safety resource.

Granite Wellness offers residential and outpatient substance use disorder treatment services for adults and youth with personalized treatment plans including group … [read more]

Each year the Community Support Network collaborates on the Halloween Book Giveaway youth literacy event with a number of other local organizations.

Halloween 2021 Book Giveaway - Drive Up event
WHAT: Spooky Booky Giveaway for ages 0-18 while supplies last
WHEN: Friday, October 29, 2021 from 3-5pm
WHERE: Drive-Thru at the Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way, Nevada City, CA 95959
SAFETY: This event will follow all relevant COVID-19 protocols and guidance.
INFO: csnnc.org
SPONSORS INCLUDE: Community Support Network of Nevada County, First 5 Nevada County, Nevada County Community Library, Nevada County Public Health

This is one of many possible First 5 Nevada County Ready to Grow (R2G) program resources. Ready to Grow resources are those that support the well-being of children ages 0-5.

The K9's 4 Kids​ program gives children who are experiencing trauma a chance to love and be loved by a trained therapy dog and experience normalcy in a stressful environment. A dog facilitates an acceptable emotional connection for youth who have a hard time connecting with others.

A therapy dog team includes a dog, a handler, and a companion volunteer – typically a CASA volunteer.

Child Advocates of Placer County's teams visit:

• Juvenile Detention Facility (for probation youth) every Friday afternoon 
• Koinonia Emergency Placement homes (for kids who have recently been detained from their families due to abuse or neglect) every Tuesday

In order to expand the K9's 4 Kids program to transitional housing programs and other sites, Child Advocates of Placer County is looking for people who have a trained dog to join. If you are interested in participating in the K9’s 4 Kids program, follow the steps listed here: https://casaplacer.org/k9s-4-kids/

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