The TAPP Program provides case management services, advocacy and support, resources and referrals, and other services to pregnant and parenting teens who live in Placer County.

The program's goals are to promote positive pregnancy outcomes and effective parenting, and to help young parents obtain social and economic independence.

The Placer County Office of Education (PCOE) in collaboration with Child Advocates of Placer County, provides the Independent Living Program (ILP) for Placer County. ILP provides training, services, and benefits to assist current and former foster youth in achieving self-sufficiency prior to, and after leaving, the foster care system.

The Placer County Independent Living Program (ILP) delivers high quality services in the community where foster youth are living and learning. Our mission is to promote self-sufficiency among transition-aged youth related to:

• Personal development and resiliency
• Employment readiness
• Job placement assistance
• Financial independence
• Education
• Housing
• Health care

Staff approach all youth work with a lens of trauma-informed care, continually striving to provide environments that are safe, positive, predictable, consistent, and equitable.

The Crisis Resolution Center provides solution-focused, trauma-informed, and person focus family intervention; which resolves family crises and establishes reunification of children ages 12-17 with their families. The Crisis Resolution Center, located in Loomis California, is a six-bed (co-ed) facility with counseling services, fully licensed and professionally staffed to provide short-term out-client family services and short-term residential care.

Our team (composed of well-trained house parents, child care workers, and a CRC Case Manager) offers the highest quality of:

• Relationship counseling
• Conflict resolution
• Parent-child training
• Referral services

Short-term residential placement for teenagers ages 12-17 (average stay is approximately one to two weeks).Youth at the Crisis Resolution Center experience a stable, well-supervised schedule that follows a three-phase process:

1. Orientation and Crisis De-escalation
2. Counseling and Outreach
3. Reunification and After Care

24-Hour-a-Day Sup… [read more]

Destiny Community Center is a place for families and individuals to learn, grow, and heal. Our mission is to empower families & unite communities.

Services:

• Art and family classes
• Education
• Mental Health workshops
• School outreach
  • School Field Trips
  • After-school clubs
    • A free kids program at local schools promoting creativity, fitness, science, and math through interactive sessions.
  • ​On-Campus Tutoring
    • Homework assistance
    • Free educational assistance at Destiny Community Center
• Foster Care Initiative
  • Monthly Foster Family Nights provide activities for kids, connection and mentorship for teens, and training and encouragement for parents and caregivers – free to foster and adopted families
  • Families looking to foster or adopt are invited to our quarterly Q/A nights where panels of foster/adopt families and agencies are available to answer questions in addition to walking through the licensing process together
  • Contac…

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Lord’s Gym is a sports outreach center designed to give young people an outlet and alternative in today’s world.

Lord’s Gym provides:

• Mentoring
• Weight training
• Cardiovascular training
• Boxing
• Cardio classes
• Hip Hop break-dancing
• 2 indoor basketball courts
• Game consoles
• Pool tables
• and more...

Lord's Gym is an outreach ministry of Abundant Life Church.

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]

The STEPP PROGRAM was established in 1998.

STEPP is a district program for pregnant and parenting teens.

STEPP offers a quality child development program with an Infant/Toddler center on site at Sierra High School.

Students enrolled in the STEPP Program participate in parenting and life-skill classes after their academic day. We offer an infant and toddler childcare center on-site at Sierra High School for district students and their children. We have free childcare for these students while they are attending school and pursuing the goal of graduation.

In the afternoon of the program the students are required to attend parenting and life skill classes to help assist them in becoming good parents and being able to take care of themselves and their children.

The Nevada County Public Health Department in Truckee offers confidential reproductive health services to teens including abstinence education, birth control education and supplies, decision-making counseling and support, pregnancy testing and referrals, emergency contraception supplies, STD testing and referrals, Hepatitis A and B vaccinations, HPV vaccinations, mental health counseling and support, and referrals to community services.

Visit the walk-in clinic every Wednesdays from 1-4pm or make an appointment on other clinic days. Appointments and all services are FREE, CONFIDENTIAL, and provided in a SAFE and WELCOMING teen space.
 
For more information or to schedule an appointment:
Call (530) 582-7814
https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/2346/Truckee-Teen-Clinic
Use flag pole entrance of the Joseph Government Center, second floor, 10075 Levon Avenue, Suite 202, Truckee, CA 96161

ReachOut USA (DBA of Inspire USA Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for teens and young adults that meets youth where they are to deliver peer support and mental health information in a safe and supportive online space.

ReachOut does not provide online counseling, but provides an anonymous and supportive space where young people can find the information that they need and can voice their opinions and thoughts without fear of being judged or being different.

Provides education, outreach, and implements strategies to support youth and prevent suicides.