River Oak Center For Children

BIRTH AND BEYOND (BIRTH - 5)

A home-visitation program, Birth & Beyond is administered through the Dunlap Family Resource Center which serves to identify those families and children experiencing serious emotional and behavioral problems. A variety of skilled and highly trained professionals are part of multi-disciplinary teams offering a range of services based on family need. Child Development specialists, family advocates, nurses, alcohol/drug mental health and child abuse treatment specialists, and other related professionals make up the multi-disciplinary teams. Additional family services are provided, including housing and financial assistance, mental health counseling, and opportunities for educational advancement.

BUILDING BLOCKS (BIRTH - 6)

This program targets infants and toddlers suffering from developmental and behavioral problems, psychological trauma, or attachment disorders and who may be at risk of being removed from their home. Through coaching and mentoring, parents learn how to understand their child’s cues and behaviors and then improve their ability to respond, ultimately helping to develop the child’s relationship-building and life skills, and minimizing the occurrence of child abuse and neglect.

BUILDING BLOCKS FOSTER SUPPORT (BIRTH - 6)

In the program, foster parents are trained and supported to act as therapeutic partners of the intervention team, which develops and carries out an individualized treatment plan supporting the child’s stabilization, positive growth, and chances to succeed in life. Better reunification rates are expected for those infants and toddlers who are returned to their homes and higher rates of permanent placements are observed among those who are not reunited.

• Birth to Five
• Intensive In-home
• Outpatient Services
• Professional Services

5030 El Camino Avenue, Carmichael, CA 95608, (916) 609-5100, fax (916) 609-5160
info@riveroak.org
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