Programs & Services
Clinical Services
- Child Abuse Treatment Services — Individual, family, and group counseling services and special programs for sexually abused and sexually reactive children and teens and their non-offending parents
- Child and Family Assessment Center — Comprehensive mental health and developmental evaluations emphasizing children in the child protective services system
- Child Trauma Treatment Center — Mental health services for children who have been abused or neglected, and/or exposed to violence in the home, school or community
- Children’s Mental Health — Addresses the mental health needs of children through individual, group and family treatment in a variety of specialized settings, including outpatient mental health clinics, schools, and at clients’ homes
- Family Preservation — Collaborates with community agencies to help stabilize and empower families referred by the child-protective services system, to prevent out-of-home placement of children
- Gang Reduction and Youth Development — In collaboration with El Centro Del Pueblo and other community organizations, CII provides gang prevention programs to youth between 10 to 15 years old to discourage initial involvement with street gangs
- Intensive In-Home Mental Health Services Program — Community-based program that provides children and families with strength-based, individualized mental health services in their homes
- Multidisciplinary Assessment Team — A joint DMH and DCFS initiative aimed at providing educational, developmental and psychological assessment for children in foster care
- Parent-Child Interactive Therapy — Designed to strengthen positive relationships between children and their caregivers by providing on-the-spot parental counseling
- Partner’s Foster Care — Quality care and assistance to children birth to 18 years old in the foster care system to help them achieve placement stability and permanency
- Project ABC — A family-driven, culturally responsive system of mental health services for children birth to 5 years old and their families
- Project ERIN — In collaboration with the Los Angeles Police Department, provides emergency response and follow up services for victims of domestic violence and their children
- Project Stable Home — In-home services and center-based groups to support family stability and positive child development in high-risk families, especially children birth to 5 years old who are at risk of abandonment or abuse
- Support Program for Abuse Reactive Kids — Group therapy session for families whose child 4 to 10 years old has begun to molest other children
- Up-Front Assessment — CII therapists work with the DCFS Emergency Response Command Post to provide after-hours assessments when DCFS is called out to investigate cases of abuse and neglect
- Wellness on Wheels — Customized with parent-child interactive therapy treatment and observation rooms, the WOW mobile clinic brings mental health services into communities with the highest need
- Wraparound — Individualized, comprehensive, community-based services and support to children and adolescents with serious emotional and/or behavioral disturbances to help them reunite and/or remain with their families and communities
Early Childhood Services
- Early Care and Education — Half-day, full-year early education and child care services in center-based care or in contracted licensed family childcare homes to promote optimal child development
- Early Head Start — Comprehensive child development program that provides individualized care and services to children birth to 3 years old and their families
- Preschool Day Treatment — A behavioral intervention program for children ages 3 to 5 with severe emotional and behavioral problems
- School Readiness — A comprehensive family support program to ensure children enter kindergarten healthy, prepared and ready to learn
Family Support
- Alcohol and Other Drugs — Treatment and support services for adolescent and transitional age youth with substance abuse and mental health difficulties
- California Youth Authority Parenting program — A parenting and support program for youths in California Youth Authority facilities
- Family Connections — Minimize child abuse and neglect for children birth to 3 years old and their families through in-home parent education and counseling support, advocacy and referrals to community resources for services such as childcare, housing assistance and medical care
- Financial Literacy — Strengthens families by building parents’ basic financial skills, such as bank account management, household budgeting and tax education
- Grandma’s House — Kinship support services for relative caregivers and children
- Job Development — Job preparation and assistance program to help parents obtain steady employment
- Nutrition classes — Educates children and their families about healthy foods and the importance of good eating habits; planting vegetable gardens; planning and cooking nutritional meals; and other activities that engage children in the process of healthful living
- Parenting Education — Psycho-educational groups for parents and caregivers addressing basic child development principles, communication skills, anger management and alternatives to corporal punishment
- Project Fatherhood — Parenting and support group services which address the critical issue of father absence and encourage men to become more active in the rearing of their children
Child Enrichment
- Art program — Structured and walk-in classes in the visual arts for children age 4 and up
- Computer Learning — Hands-on training for children of all ages through age-appropriate games, schoolwork and Web research
- Filmmaking — Geared for teens, teaches all facets of the filmmaking process including scriptwriting, storyboarding, shooting and post-production
- Music program — For children 8 to 10 years old, who learn how to read music and play band instruments
- Performing Arts — Builds children’s self-esteem and confidence through song, dance and theater, culminating in a final performance before a live audience
- Stories Abroad — Encourages children to learn about different world cultures through reading, music and related activities
- Superstart — Basic learning skills program to reinforce academic skills and encourage learning for children in kindergarten to second grade who are experiencing difficulty in school
- Tutoring — Tutoring service for children and teens, 10 to 14 years old, who need additional academic support
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