Dear Support Base, Crittenton is asking for you to help us tell Johns and Traffickers that our children are not for sale. Senator Bob Huff has introduced SB 982 to increase penalties for predators who solicit minors for sex, and your support is vital to ensuring that we are successful in ending the demand that is the lifeblood of domestic minor sex trafficking. It's time for...
Read MoreMarch 10, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families Martha Jasso, Director of Communications (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org MONTEREY, Calif. – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) is proud to announce that Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President of Community Based Services, CSCF is an invited guest speaker at the 39th Annual Conference on Forensic Mental Health: The Joining of Art and Science on March 20, 2014. [caption id="attachment_2100" align="alignleft"...
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families Martha Jasso, Director of Communications (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org COSTA MESA, Calif. – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) is proud to announce that Chief Executive Officer, Joyce Capelle, has been invited to participate as a panelist at this year’s Ensure Justice Conference hosted by the Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University. [caption id="attachment_2193" align="alignleft" width="199"] Joyce...
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I’m honored to be working with Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe and a committed group of lawmakers on a bipartisan effort to end child sex trafficking in California. The legislative effort involves the work and cooperation of. Sen. Ted Lieu, Sen. Holly Mitchell, Sen. Jerry Hill, Sen. Marty Block, Assemblymember Susan Talamantes Eggman and the human-rights group California Against Slavery. Some of this legislation –...
Read MoreFebruary 3, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families Martha Jasso, Director of Communications (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org DOWNEY, Calif. – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) is proud to announce that Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President of Community Based Services, for CSCF, is an invited keynote speaker presenting on the topic of commercially sexually exploited children at the Thirty-Third District PTA’s Mid-Winter Conference on February 6, 2014. [caption...
Read MoreJanuary 27, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families Martha Jasso, Director of Communications (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org Fullerton, Calif – After nearly five decades of providing services and assistance to Southern California youth that have experienced neglect, violence, and sexual exploitation Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) will be recognized by local leaders in a small and private ceremony on January 30, 2014. [caption id="attachment_2058" align="alignleft" width="300"] Artwork...
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The work Crittenton’s staff does on behalf of commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC) is a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week effort. But in January, National Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Month, we single out the final week to have a special celebration for survivors on our campus and honor the memory of those lost to “the life,” while sending a message of support...
Read MoreNovember 27, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families Martha Jasso, Director of Communications (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) applauds the selection of Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President of Community Based Services, CSCF and Wendy Curtis, Wraparound Clinical Director, CSCF as presenters at next year’s Southwest Conference against Trafficking (SWCAT 2014) to be held from January 17 to 19, 2014 at...
Read MoreOctober 04, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families Martha Jasso, Director of Communications (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org FULLERTON, Calif. – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) applauds the selection of Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President of Community Based Services, CSCF to the California Statewide Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) Action Group. [caption id="attachment_1474" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President of Community Based Services, CSCF[/caption] The nomination was made...
Read MoreJune 24, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families Martha Jasso, Director of Communications (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org LONG BEACH, Calif. – Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President of Community Services, for Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) has recently been published in the Q2 2013 edition of Silhouettes EJournal. [caption id="attachment_1474" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President of Community Services, CSCF[/caption] Dr. Hernandez's article entitled, "Identification and Treatment of Domestic Minor...
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