Mental Health Tag

A Crittenton Client’s Hope for a Drug-Free Future

For so many of our teen clients either in our residential services program or community based programs the problem is not that of "violent offender" but rather the issue of "addiction". Oftentimes, we the adults in the community fail to see that behavioral issues might be a sign of not a "bad kid" but instead a "kid in a bad situation". In commemoration of both #RecoveryMonth and...

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Crittenton's Day of Beauty 2015
Crittenton’s Day of Beauty 2015

When You Look Good You Feel Good As I’m driving into Orange County nothing seems familiar. Suddenly my heart feels heavy-I begin to recognize the area. I’m heading towards my old group home and I’m captured by feelings of nostalgia. I remember running down the street, stopping at the gas station, and picking up the payphone as a van abruptly stops in front of me. The...

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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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The Muckenthaler to Expand its Rehabilitative Arts Program to Help Crittenton Youth

June 17, 2015 Contact: Allison Town, Director of Marketing Phone: 714-773-1311 Email: Allison@TheMuck.org   FULLERTON, Calif. ­­– The California Arts Council announced the Muckenthaler Cultural Center will receive an award of $30,400 as part of its JUMP StArts grant program and $86,176 for two new Arts-in-Corrections program contracts. Now in its second year, JUMP StArts supports high-quality arts education and artist-in-residence programs for the target population of at-risk youth—youth within the...

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

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...

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Crittenton Joins Various Cities for Child Abuse Prevention Month Awareness

April 1, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families Martha Jasso, Director of Communications (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org   SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) is pleased to join the cities of Compton, Pomona, Fullerton, San Bernardino, and Long Beach in acknowledging the plight of children whose lives are being shattered by child abuse, and is calling on the local community for continued support in stopping...

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Crittenton at 39th Annual Conference on Forensic Mental Health

March 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"...

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