Crittenton's Volunteer Program Archives - Crittenton | Services for Children and Families

31 May

Children’s Mental Health Matters: Challenge Grant Helping Girls Cope with Trauma

Children's Mental Health Matters: Challenge Grant Helping Girls Cope with Trauma At a time when there are talks of deep budget cuts to health and human services at the federal level, organizations like Crittenton Services need your support more than ever. For those supporters that care and strongly advocate for accessible and affordable children's mental health, for example, please remember that mental health, in general, is not necessarily talked about...

31 May

Meet the New Therapists Helping Teen’s Cope with Trauma

in Crittenton Services BLOG

Meet the New Therapists Helping Teen's Cope with Trauma Many of the teen girls using the services of our short-term residential center have felt unloved and abandoned. They don't get the average teen experiences of sleepovers with their best friends or get to hang out at the mall with their buds. Most don't get hugs from their mothers when they are feeling sick or a kiss on their...

Joyce Capelle, CEO, Crittenton Services for Children and Families

21 Jun

Message from Crittenton’s CEO: 50th Anniversary Edition

in Crittenton Services BLOG

Message From Crittenton's CEO: 50th Anniversary Edition I’ve been reflecting on the history of this agency. Fifty years. Many of those years have been spent navigating the numerous reforms and revolutions of child welfare, restorative justice, and mental health. Sometimes anticipating and being ahead of the curve, sometimes just going with the flow, sometimes forging our own unique path. And more often than not, getting it...

26 Apr

Celebrating National Volunteer Month at Crittenton

in Crittenton Services BLOG

Volunteerism can serve a purpose to many people. For some, volunteering is a call of duty in order to help make the community a better place to live; for others volunteerism is an act of kindness and a way to help personally enrich one’s life; yet, for others volunteerism is how someone practices their faith by living a life of purpose. However one defines volunteerism what...

03 Mar

Community Partners Give Big During Crittenton’s 50th Anniversary Year

in Crittenton Services BLOG

Only one word can really describe the feeling we got when it was announced late last year that our longtime partners, National Charity League Inc., Yorba Linda Chapter, had selected Crittenton Services for Children and Families to be their charity of choice during their 2016 Fashion Show. And that word was – Wow! Nearly 600 people from around Orange County, Calif. attended this February’s charity fashion...

28 Dec

Local School Choir Visits Crittenton

in Crittenton Services BLOG

As the holidays wind down we are eternally grateful to all Crittenton Services for Children and Families volunteers, donors and partners for helping us make the holiday magic happen throughout our agency. It is because of you that our youth and families got to experience a hopeful Christmas. Living in shelter situation or going through a mental health crisis is never a pleasant experience. In particular...

27 Mar

Crittenton’s Nexus with Women’s History Month

in Crittenton Services BLOG

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...

06 Feb

Crittenton Donors and Volunteers Network Give Big

in Crittenton Services BLOG

It’s official…you like us…you really like us! So, this past December the Crittenton Services for Children and Families volunteers, donors, community partners and staff were busy keeping up with the holidays. They answered a call-to-action that made the holidays a little more enjoyable for children and youth that seldom see compassion. “I’m always amazed of the generosity our entire support base has consistently shown the youth and...

12 Nov

Golfers and Donors Support Crittenton’s Education Program

in Crittenton Services BLOG

Even in 100-degree heat the golfers that participated in our 17th Annual Community for Kids Golf Tournament and Winner Dinner managed to heat up the golf course all on their own, and most importantly all for a good cause. For 47 years Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) has implemented nationally accredited and fully licensed programming that provides safe temporary housing for youth in residential...

18 Sep

Volunteers Help Make a Beautiful Day at Crittenton

in Crittenton Services BLOG

Volunteers, community partners and staff come together at the Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) Residential Treatment Center for the Annual Day of Beauty on September, 5, 2014. “It’s a yearly event that requires months of coordination between all parties involved to essentially create an opportunity for the local community and Crittenton youth to get to know each other and most importantly to learn from...

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