SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME

The Sacramento Children's Home operates 3 Family Resource Centers thoughout Sacramento. The Family Resource Centers provide parents education about the physical, emotional, developmental and educational need of their children through parental classes, workshops and support groups. The Family Resource Centers also provide crisis support services and an in-home visitation program for families that have been identified as at-risk for child abuse or neglect.

The SCH Counseling Center offers innovative counseling techniques to help children heal from traum and improve the parent-child relationship

The Sacramento Crisis Nursery Program is a family strengthening program of the Sacramento Children’s Home. The Crisis Nursery Program helps SCH achieve our mission by providing parents a safe place to leave their children during times of crisis. The ultimate goal of the program is to keep families together and reduce the number of young children who enter into the foster care system. The only program of its kind in the Sacramento area, the Crisis Nursery Program is voluntary, confidential, and free to families with children, newborn to age 5. With two locations in North and South Sacramento, the Crisis Nursery Program offers emergency childcare and overnight respite care to families in need throughout Sacramento 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Children may stay at the Crisis Nursery for only a few hours, or for up to 30 days depending on the situation.

The SCH Education Program offers a variety of after school and enrichment activities to make learning fun and help residents get the most from their education.

eVIBE helps students and their families avoid violence and develop safe relationship at school and at home.

Wraparound provides individualized support to families to ensure that youth in residential care return to a safe, stable community home. Through family and community engagement, the Wraparound Program strives to find a permanent family for the children in our program. Our Wraparound Program values the child and family in a manner that shifts from a child-centered, problem-focused view to building on strengths to improve the well-being of the entire family.

The Source is a Foster Family urgent response program, administered by the Sacramento Children's Home. The Source aims to provide support to foster families and current or former foster youth during times of crisis and struggle. The program features urgent crisis support, which includes a free hotline for youth and families, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Source is also available via text message, live online chat, and through social media. Resource Families will be provided with case management, mental health services, referrals, and respite activities when applicable.