Crittenton’s Mental Health Programs Tag

Volunteers and Donors at the Heart of the Crittenton Services Mission

Volunteers and Donors at the Heart of the Crittenton Services Mission Every year in April, nonprofits, celebrate the importance and positive outcomes that volunteers contribute to community causes. Whether you're fighting the good fight for children's causes, homelessness, or the environment a nonprofit's mission would be unable to reach its peak of performance without someone like 'you' willing to contribute energy and talents to a social issue...

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Golfers at Crittenton's Charity Golf Tournament
Golfers Needed to Help Crittenton’s 50-Year-Old Mission

Golfers Needed to Help Crittenton’s 50-Year-Old Mission We cordially invite you to the Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) Annual ‘Community for Kids’ Golf Tournament, Dinner, and Auction being held at the picturesque Yorba Linda Country Club on Monday, September 19, 2016. Come join our support base, volunteers, and longtime friends as we golf in support of making trauma-informed mental health programming available to Crittenton youth in...

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Fullerton Senior Citizens Club Donates Funding to Crittenton and WTLC

August 20, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org [caption id="attachment_3289" align="alignleft" width="300"] Fullerton Senior Citizens Club present donations to Crittenton Services and WTLC.[/caption] Fullerton, Calif. – Two Fullerton based non-profits, Crittenton Services for Children and Families and WTLC, are awarded a generous donation from the Fullerton Senior Citizens Club during the club’s monthly meeting on August 20, 2015. Each non-profit organization received a $1,000...

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Joyce Capelle, CEO, Crittenton Services for Children and Families
A Message from Crittenton’s CEO: Crittenton Welcomes California’s Continuum of Care Reform

Crittenton is committed of not only maintaining our accreditation but at the same time continuously supporting quality improvement measures throughout our agency. Ensuring that Crittenton meets the highest standards of accreditation, licensing, as well as all of our contract terms is not only a priority under California’s Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) mandate, but most importantly it is the right thing to do on behalf...

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Crittenton Honored at the CSU Fullerton 2015 Community Engagement Awards

May 11, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org [caption id="attachment_2993" align="alignleft" width="300"] 2015 CSUF Social Work Graduate Students interning at Crittenton Services.[/caption] Fullerton, Calif. – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) is proud to announce the agency’s nomination and selection as this year’s recipient of the Most Committed Partner award by both the CSUF Social Work Department and the CSUF Center for...

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Crittenton Employees at the 17th Annual BRAVO Awards
Crittenton’s 17th Annual Employee BRAVO Awards

Acknowledging Crittenton Employees: For 17 years Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) has made a commitment to honor the agency’s employees for their commitment in helping to treat childhood trauma, and actively curtailing the cycles of child abuse and neglect within the Southern California communities we serve. At the end of April the agency provided a free sit-down breakfast or lunch for all full-time, part-time, and...

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Crittenton Partner Blog: CSEC as a Gender-Based Violence Issue

The commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) or sex trafficking of minors has garnered more attention from the criminal justice agencies as well as communities in these past years. From safe harbor laws (that protect minors being sex trafficked as victims instead of treating them as criminals) to higher penalties for traffickers and those who purchase sex from minors, the criminal justice-framed response echoes the...

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Crittenton’s Nexus with Women’s History Month

Visionary Leader within America's Child Welfare Legacy: Recently, the National Crittenton Foundation released an email blast that paid homage to one our founder’s, who in her own right, was a trailblazer in not just America’s child welfare movement but the women’s rights movement as well. For those that have studied social work, social services, or human services perhaps you might have discovered someone by the name of...

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Crittenton's Public Policy and Advocacy Program
Crittenton Responds: LA County Adopts Plan to Progress Consolidation of Department of Mental Health

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...

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