San Joaquin County residents
Family Strengthening
Family Intervention Program: A Case management style program offering parenting support, effective discipline strategies, connections to intentional resources and community based advocacy.
Parent Café: Since January 2012, CAPC has hosted Parent Cafes throughout San Joaquin County – including our most rural areas. Parent Cafes are free parent support groups that serve as a guide for parents to have their own conversations about keeping their families strong based on the Strengthening Families
Framework: The 6 Protective Factors. This program also serves as a mechanism for the emergence and training of neighborhood/parent leaders who can continue the Parent Café after the CAPC has laid the groundwork.
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program: A program that recruits, trains and manages volunteers who mentor and advocate for children in the foster care system during the dependency court process. CASA’s act as fact-finders for judges and ensure that foster children are not forgotten, but rather are afforded every opportunity to have a healthy and happy life.
Family Finding Program: The primary goal of this program is to make connections for children referred to the CASA program with the intent of identifying people who are willing to offer a lifelong home and/or an unconditional commitment to being a part of a lifetime support to children in the foster care system.
Home Visitation Services: provides services to children 0-3 and their families with the aim of increasing access to early education resources and improving the child’s overall health and development. Services are offered at the family’s home, utilizing the Parents as Teachers (PAT) curriculum.
FamilyWORKS: This project provides home visitation services to California Work Opportunity and Responsibility for Kids (CalWORKs) families with children ages 0 to 5 (must be enrolled into the program prior to age 3) utilizing the Parents as Teachers curriculum. Families in this program receive assistance with resume writing, proper application completion and submission, interview skills, life skills training, and job retention. s Questionnaires; and access to Parent Education Workshops. Must be Cal-Works (Welfare to work eligible or exempt).
Journey WORKS: Supports CalWORKs families with children ages 0-5 who are facing, have faced, or are at risk of experiencing challenges related to alcohol, drug use, and/or mental health issues.
Project HOME: Family Advocate delivers consistent street outreach to unhouse families living in encampments and tent cities, focused on relationship & rapport building.
