Children's Receiving Home of Sacramento

As a result of our services, children and youth are more apt to live in a permanent family and become successful members of our community.

CRH blends innovative programing and best practices to address complex needs. CRH integrates clinical expertise, client values and the best research evidence into the decision making for client care. Our staff stay current on their skills and training in order to make a positive impact on the lives of our children.

Interventions That Work
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT): This therapy model is used for children and youth ages three to eighteen who have experienced one or more significant traumatic life events. It a short term therapy that involves individual sessions with the child and parent/caregiver respectively.

Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI): Our residential staff receive TCI training which is a positive, therapeutic, practical, and proven method for managing young people in crisis.

Functional Family Therapy (FFT): FFT is a well researched and highly successful family intervention program for at risk youth who are 11-18 years old. Families work with a practitioner to progress through 3 phases: Engagement and Motivation, Behavior Change, and Generalization in order to build health relationships.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a therapy designed for people who present with patterns of behavior that are not effective, such as self-harm, suicidal thinking and substance abuse. The model consists of four modules: Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance.

Aggression Replacement Training (ART) is cognitive behavioral intervention focused on adolescents, training them to cope with their aggressive and violent behaviors. The program has three components; Social skills, Anger Control Training and Moral Reasoning.

My Life, My Choice (MLMC): This prevention program is a nationally recognized curriculum designed to reach adolescent female youth most vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation.

Incredible Years: The Incredible Years parent training intervention is a series focused on strengthening parenting competencies (monitoring, positive discipline, confidence) and fostering parents' involvement in order to promote children's academic, social and emotional competencies and reduce conduct problems.

SOS- Signs of Suicide Prevention Program is a class that teaches youth to identify signs of depression, and utilize the peer-to-peer help-seeking model known as ACT® (Acknowledge-Care-Tell).

In the past 10 years, CRH has implemented several new programs to better serve children and youth with diverse needs. In addition to 24-hour emergency shelter care, CRH now provides: comprehensive assessments; medical assistance; counseling and social-work services; on-site and community-based mental health programs; residentially-based services that reunites youth and families; a unique team approach designed to serve adolescents who have experienced, or are at risk of, multiple placement changes due to emotional and/or behavioral issues; recreation and activities programs; and a child/family visitation center. It is not one individual program that makes us successful, but the combination of all services that make our care to children and families effective.

Through the years, CRH has continued to fine-tune our services by interviewing participants and updating our programs to stay relevant. The addition of Sprouts, our trauma-informed care preschool, as well as the Partial Hospitalization program are examples of how we adjust to meet the needs of traumatized children in our communities. In 2019 we became one of five state-licensed Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Programs in the region.