Wayfinder Family Services has four programs serving Placer County. Three are direct referrals and one requires a call to the Placer County Mental Health Access line.

Kinship Support Services Program – call directly for referral. Wayfinder’s Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP) supports grandparents, extended family members or close family friends who step up to raise children so they avoid the trauma of separation from their birth family. KSSP is free of charge to families.

Home to Stay – can call directly or be referred by a provider. Home to Stay offers counseling and support services to kinship and birth families who are at high risk for out of home placement in Placer County. Wayfinder provides short-term in home counseling and parent education to enhance parenting skills, building supports and mitigating behavioral health risks to youth and families. For more information, call 530-722-2233 or email [email protected].

Be WELL Program – can call directly or be referre…

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The Firefighters Burn Institute Youth Firesetter Program provides staff for pre-academy interviews with children involved in fire-setting. A fire safety academy completed in two sessions is also provided. As part of the academy, children learn:

• Fire safety education
• Fire hazard recognition
• Home escape planning
  
  

Placement for families who need counseling services is also part of the program.

Koinonia Family Services provides foster and adoption services throughout California and Nevada. While foster care and adoption accounts for the largest part of their organization, they also have programs to treat, support, and improve the lives of foster children, adoptive children, group home children, and at-risk youth and families.

Koinonia is also represents the interests and rights of children and young people in "the system" through regulatory and legislative advocacy.

Becoming a professional Foster Parent consists of:

• A Monthly reserve/stipend
• Mileage reimbursement to schools out of district
• Ongoing training
• Weekly in-home support
• 24 hour support
• Paid vacation time
• Respite care
• Discounts through IFoster.org
• CPR/First Aid
• CPI training
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://www.kfh.org/
• About Us - https://www.kfh.org/about/about-us/
• Locations - https://www.kfh.org/locations/

LGBTQ+

• Trainings
• Professional Development
• No-cost Resources
• Gender Support Plan

Gender Spectrum helps to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens through providing an array of services to help youth, families, organizations and institutions understand and address concepts of Gender identity and Gender expression, including how societal, cultural, organizational and community definitions of gender can be detrimental to any young person that does not fit neatly into these categories.

Gender Spectrum offers resources to empower your relationships, work, and interactions with youth and children. Gender Spectrum provides you with the tools necessary to create gender inclusive environments in your homes, offices, and communities.

Gender Spectrum provides:

• How-to guides
• Online Consultations
• Online Groups
• Research
• Sample training materials

Granite Wellness Centers (GWC), formerly known as Community Recovery Resources or CoRR, provides comprehensive services to promote wellness for individuals and families with a focus on addressing substance use disorders.

GWC is a source of naloxone, a medication used to rapidly reverse opioid overdose.

Granite Wellness offers residential and outpatient substance use disorder treatment services for adults and youth with personalized treatment plans including group and individual counseling and other services.

Granite Wellness also provides transitional housing up to six months for adult men, women, and women with young children for people enrolled in outpatient services. Other services include educational groups for parenting, anger management, DUI services, Resilient Child program, Family Educational Series, and more.

Services include:

• Inpatient treatment
• Outpatient treatment
• Medical services, including Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
• Detoxification services
• DUI classes
• Recovery resid…

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Victor Community Support Services offers programs providing a wide variety of mental health and social support services to children, youth, young adults, and families.

Victor partners with behavioral health, child welfare, schools, and juvenile justice departments across California. To receive services, people must be referred by Nevada County Children's Behavioral Health or Child Welfare Services. Referrals from schools or the probation department must be funneled through behavioral health or child welfare.

Victor serves the youth and families of Nevada County through offices in

• Grass Valley - 900 East Main St, Suite 201, Grass Valley, CA 95945
• Truckee - 11209 Brockway Rd, Suite C306, Truckee, CA 96161 (moved from Levon Ave)

Below is a list of programs offered in Nevada County. Please visit the services page for more information.

• Wraparound Programs
• Child and Family Teaming
• Community Based Mental Health
• School Based Mental Health
• Adult Case Management

Web pages

• Home - https://www.victor.…

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Victor Community Support Services offers programs providing a wide variety of mental health and social support services to children, youth, young adults, and families, including psychiatric services for children, youth, and adults. Victor partners with behavioral health, child welfare, and juvenile justice departments across California, tailoring services to meet each family’s needs.

Victor serves the youth and families of Placer County through its partnership with Placer County’s Coordinated System of Care. The office is in Roseville (moved from Rocklin). Below is a list of programs offered in Placer County. Please visit the services page or call 916-759-1168 for more information.

• Children and Youth Mental Health Services
• Adult Mental Health Services in North Lake Tahoe

Web pages

• Home - https://www.victor.org/
• Locations - https://www.victor.org/locations/
• Services - https://www.victor.org/services/

Victor Community Support Services offers programs providing a wide variety of mental health and social support services to children, youth, young adults, and families, including psychiatric services for children, youth, and adults. Victor partners with behavioral health, child welfare, and juvenile justice departments across California, tailoring services to meet each family’s needs. Children and Youth Mental Health Services Adult Mental Health Services in North Lake Tahoe Web pages Home - https://www.victor.org/ Locations - https://www.victor.org/locations/ Services - https://www.victor.org/services/

The Place County Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) Program is a statewide health program whose goal is to assure that all children and youth of families with limited income in California stay healthy by providing complete health exams, preventive services and immunizations to eligible children.

CHDP provides care coordination to assist families with medical appointment scheduling, transportation and access to prompt diagnostic and treatment services to prevent or greatly reduce the severity of suspected problems.

The CHDP program also provides a "gateway" to ongoing health care for children by linking families to health insurance and a medical home.

To participate in CHDP you must be a Placer County resident, and you must meet one of the two following requirements:

• Age 0 to 19 with low to moderate family income and no health insurance coverage for health exams
• Age 0 to 21 with limited or share-of-cost Medi-Cal

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The Placer Sheriff’s Activities League is engaged in activities and events after school three days a week for local youth.

The events include mentoring, leadership and promote good decision making through sports and/or presentations. The program also implements a drug and gang prevention environment. Look under programs tab on website for specific details of each program.

The Placer Sheriff’s Activities League is facilitated at Parkside Church in Auburn and is hosted by a Placer County Sheriff’s Deputies, Placer County Probation, Children System of Care, Latino Leadership Counsel and KidsFirst.

The Placer Sheriff’s Activities League is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

The Placer Sheriff’s Activities League, along with its partnerships, will work and provide youth with valuable life skills benefiting themselves and the community. Strives to prevent youth involvement of gangs as well as drug use.

Web pages

• Home - http://www.placersal.com/