January 2015 - Crittenton | Services for Children and Families

29 Jan

Crittenton Supports Current Anti-Human Trafficking Focused Legislation

On behalf of Crittenton, we are extremely encouraged by the recent progress of 12 human-trafficking focused bills in congress. Our leaders in the house are setting an important tone and building a platform on which we can all better address the needs of children who have been, or are vulnerable to, trafficking. As a member of Congressman Royce’s Congressional Task Force on Human Trafficking, and...

Crittenton's Public Policy and Advocacy Program

23 Jan

Crittenton Responds: LA County Adopts Plan to Progress Consolidation of Department of Mental Health

in Crittenton Services BLOG

It’s only three weeks into 2015, and already this is shaping up to be the year of mental health. The continued implementation of the Affordable Care Act and requirements for parity under the new law, specialty mental health services under the “carve-out” as well as shifts in contracting for mental health services for our clients have set the tone for us this year, and it’s...

16 Jan

Crittenton Wraparound Services: Foster Mom is Shining Example of Exceptional Parenting for LA County Foster Youth

in Crittenton Services BLOG

Earcylene Beavers is no ordinary Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) advocate. She like so many of our supporters wears a number of hats that we respect and appreciate. To clarify, she is not a direct Crittenton client, nor is she a Crittenton foster parent. Who is she you ask? Well, she just happens to be the foster mom to current and former clients in...

09 Jan

Off the Track; Where to Call Home

in Crittenton in the News

Contributing writer, Brittany Patterson, for the Chronicle of Social Change recently covered the realities of housing options for commercially sexually exploited youth (CSEC) in the State of California. Despite the strict regulations, lack of funding and lack of public support for residential treatment centers due mostly to cost Ms. Patterson profiled one group home in Northern California that is doing an exceptional job in advocating...

07 Jan

Long Beach Task Force to Offer Symposium on Protecting Youth From Human Trafficking

in Crittenton News Release

January 12, 2015 CONTACT: Martha Jasso, Crittenton Services: 909-763-0244 Jeanette Cheng, Long Beach Human Trafficking Task Force: 949-444-8025 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org Long Beach, Calif - The Long Beach Human Trafficking Task Force (LBHTTF) is joining with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) and the Long Beach PTA to offer the first annual Youth Exploitation Safety Symposium (YESS 2015) – a gathering of more than 80 organizations, workshops and speakers aimed at...

07 Jan

Rebecca Epstein: Trafficking Victims Face Long Road to Recovery

in Crittenton in the News

Rebecca Epstein, Executive Director, of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality has written an opinion editorial for the December 23, 2014 OC Register edition on turning our new awareness of trafficking into stronger action against it. By addressing girls’ history of trauma and the compounding serial-rape horror of trafficking itself. And the effort to do so must be as multidimensional as the problem itself. Ms. Epstein...

07 Jan

Angels at Morningside Retirement Community Wrap 200 Gifts for Crittenton Kids

in Crittenton in the News

Recent FullertonStories.com article published the generosity Crittenton Services for Children and Families donors, volunteers, and supporters recently demonstrated in the Annual Crittenton Angel Tree Program. This yearly gift drive is designed to connect donors to the needs of our clients in the form of a holiday gift....

07 Jan

Ed Royce: The Fight Against Human Trafficking

in Crittenton in the News

US Congressman Ed Royce writes an opinion editorial for OC Register for their current human trafficking in Orange County, Calif. series where he discusses the current work being accomplished in his Human Trafficking Congressional Advisory Committee. Crittenton Services for Children and Families is mentioned and praised for serving children who have been commercially sexually exploited in Southern California. ...

07 Jan

Money Talks in Fight Against Sexual Exploitation of Children

in Crittenton in the News

Brittany Patterson, Contributing Writer, of the Chronicle of Social Change reaches out to Crittenton's CEO, Joyce Cappelle on the topic of the recent infusion of interest and funding in the state of California to create a comprehensive plan to better serve commercially sexually exploited children....

07 Jan

Letters: To Stop Human Trafficking, End Demand

in Crittenton in the News

Crittenton's CEO, Joyce Capelle, letter to the editor in the December 12, 2014 edition of the OC Register thanks the editors for their current series of opinion editorials addressing of human trafficking in Orange County, Calif....