SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL
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Mission Statement
The Child Abuse Prevention Council is committed to protecting the children of our community, strengthening families, and giving hope to those seeking to break the sometimes generational bonds of physical, verbal, sexual, and emotional abuse. CAPC is a place where parents can learn to be better parents, children can heal from the wounds of abuse and neglect, and where families can improve their quality of life.
About This Cause
For more than 45 years, the CAPC has worked with parents who are ready to make the sometimes-difficult changes necessary to provide a safe and nurturing home for their children. While the CAPC is committed to responding to crises to ensure the safety of children, we are not in the business of offering temporary band-aids that don't address the core issues that bring families to that point of crisis. Many of the families we serve face multiple barriers to their success: substance abuse, domestic violence, unemployment, lack of education and life skills, and/or homelessness. Our programs are free, confidential, outcome-driven, and always delivered with compassion. Services are available in English and Spanish and with the help of translation services, we are able to provide services in any other language as well. Services are available to anyone in crisis regardless of income, age, gender, ethnicity, physical or mental challenges, religion, citizenship status, or sexual orientation. The Child Abuse Prevention Council endeavors to achieve our goal of protecting children and strengthening families by employing four primary strategies: Early Education services, Family Strengthening services, Clinical Services, and Community Awareness and Education Our approach to addressing family challenges is multi-disciplinary, cooperative, and collaborative, and ensures that all services are delivered from a trauma-informed perspective, are relationship-centered, and always strengths-based. This work cannot be done for families, but rather CAPC staff work with families to make the necessary life changes through these available direct services: 1. Early Education: CAPC recognizes that critical and formative brain development happens between birth and the age five years old. The critical attachment period during these stages of development is proven to shape a child’s outlook, understanding, and navigation of relationships throughout their lifetime. CAPC creates a context for healthy attachments to occur throughout the critical systems supporting children’s development: home, school, and community, through a range of early childhood education services that are trauma-informed, relationship-centered, and strengths-based. From a child welfare perspective, CAPC recognizes that children 0-5 years old are the most vulnerable to abuse and neglect by a trusted parent or caregiver. Access to high-quality early learning programs can be cost-prohibitive to most working families, forcing parents to make the difficult choice between not working at all or placing their children in sub-par care environments while they work. CAPC’s state-subsidized and Head Start programs create equitable opportunities for all children to experience high-quality, nurturing, and safe environments that ensure children’s safety, reduces the achievement gap, and promotes necessary brain development for successful learning throughout the child’s lifetime. Preschool: Offering both state-subsidized and Head Start programs, the CAPC provides early education services in licensed facilities to more than 1000, 3-5-year olds throughout San Joaquin County, including 6 unique sites in Stockton. Programs include both part-day and full-day options for families based on their needs, family size, and income. Priority is given to families with children at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or who are homeless. The classroom curriculum includes developmentally appropriate goals and objectives for children within four main categories of interest: social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Infant & Toddler Care: Provided at 4 licensed facilities located throughout San Joaquin County, serving children 0-2 years old. The curriculum focuses on healthy attachment development through intentional & and responsive care and is designed to focus on routines and experiences – allowing the unique demands of each individual child to be successfully met. Home-Based Child Development Programs: This program offers in-home education services to 51 families with children between the ages of 0-3 and uses the Parents as Teachers (PAT) curriculum to support parents in becoming their child’s first teacher.. Behavior Modification Services: Child Development Consultants provide behavioral support services to at-risk children ages 0-5 years old and their families, resulting in improved behaviors, parenting techniques and decreased need for intervention. These staff also offer Kindermusik classes for parents and children to enjoy together, focusing on healthy attachment and brain development through shared music experiences. Crisis/Respite Care: No-cost crisis care and respite care for children birth through 12 years old. Our Respite Care program is the only one of its kind in San Joaquin County and funding for these services is very limited. This program provides quality care for children of families (regardless of income) who are not eligible for subsidized child care, but are either required to participate in a treatment, care plan, or parent education class or are facing an immediate short-term emergency and have no other resource to turn to for child care. CAPC also has a dedicated childcare space at the Family Justice Center for any family accessing services there to ensure their children have a safe, nurturing environment while their guardians access supportive services to address their immediate needs/crisis. Services are also provided at the San Joaquin County Courthouse for families engaging in official court business or accessing the self-help center. 2. Family Strengthening Family Intervention Program: A Case management style program offering parenting support, effective discipline strategies, connections to intentional resources and community based advocacy. This program is focused on keeping children safe and keeping families out of the child welfare system by building up the protective factors that ensure they are strong and resilient. A similar program, Safety Net, is a case management program provided for families engaged in the child welfare system, but who do not meet the threshold for Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement. Parent Café: Since January 2012, CAPC has hosted Parent Cafes throughout San Joaquin County – including our most rural areas. Parent Cafes are free parent support groups that serve as a guide for parents to have their own conversations about keeping their families strong based on the Strengthening Families Framework: The 6 Protective Factors. This program also serves as a mechanism for the emergence and training of neighborhood/parent leaders who can continue the Parent Café after the CAPC has laid the groundwork. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program: A program that recruits, trains and manages volunteers who mentor and advocate for children in the foster care system during the dependency court process. CASA’s act as fact-finders for judges and ensure that foster children are not forgotten, but rather are afforded every opportunity to have a healthy and happy life. The CASA program is an opportunity to intervene in a child’s life when they are most vulnerable and can decrease incidences of juvenile justice offenses and reentry into the juvenile justice system. Studies show that youth in foster care who are connected to a CASA report significantly higher levels of hope; which is ultimately linked to improved academic success, overall well-being, increases in self-control, positive social relationships, and optimism. Further, studies indicate that children with a CASA have higher graduation rates and are less likely to experience homelessness. Home Visitation Services: provides services to children 0-3 and their families with the aim of increasing access to early education resources and improving the child’s overall health and development. Services are offered at the family’s home. Project HOME: Family Advocate delivers consistent street outreach to unhouse families living in encampments and tent cities, focused on relationship & rapport building. Through family-centered support, encouragement, and a strengths-based approach, the CAPC Family Advocate will work diligently to assess family needs and link them to necessary resources in the community, while identifying strategies to stay connected with families who move frequently to mitigate the likelihood of “losing” children. The goal of the program is to stabilize families’ needs & equip them with the skills, resources, and networks that can sustain that stabilization. 3. Clinical Services Children’s Outpatient Mental Health Services: Provided to children and youth (0-18 years old) medi-cal beneficiaries, through Individual and family-based services. School-Based Mental Health: Identifying barriers and factors putting K-12 students at risk of poor academic performance and/or suspensions and expulsions. Mentoring for Transitional Age Youth: Mentoring and supportive services are provided to youth ages 16 to 25 with emotional and behavioral difficulties and who do not meet the criteria for specialty mental health care services. Suicide Prevention: Works with high school youth in a variety of school districts and school sites throughout San Joaquin County to bring awareness of suicide prevention and education utilizing the Yellow Ribbon Campaign. 4. Community Awareness and Education Awareness Campaigns: Multiple times throughout the year, CAPC runs a variety of multi-media awareness campaigns aimed at increasing positive parenting messages, informing the community of available resources, and bringing awareness to our agency program and needs. The Lisa Project: A multi-sensory exhibit that immerses the visitor into an abused child’s life. This award-winning, innovative approach to awareness-raising has grown to be a multi-state program. Pinwheels for Prevention (P4P): an education and awareness campaign for preschool through elementary school children that appropriately focuses on child abuse and helping children identify safe adults and strategies to safely ask for help.