Programs
River Oak employs and trains staff to be both culturally competent and culturally responsive and to consider the impact of prejudicial incidents on ethnic minority individuals, families and their communities. Understanding and dismantling racism, mitigating unconscious bias and rectifying discrimination and stigma are central to this effort. Furthermore, we recognize that racism, historical events and population demographics have a disproportional impact on the physical and behavioral health of people of color, including depression, anxiety and other serious, sometimes debilitating conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders.
Providing high quality, trauma-informed, culturally responsive care
Programs
Serves individuals (ages 0-21) with a collaborative approach to care planning allowing clinicians the flexibility to assess the level and type of services needed. As needs vary over time, services are tailored to fit needs without interruption. A wide array of treatment interventions, including specialty practices, are used to meet the identified needs.
JJDTP is a Full Service Partnership for youth involved with the juvenile justice system or displaying behavior that could lead to involvement with the juvenile justice system. JJDTP is designed to enable youth with a behavior challenge to remain in their homes, schools, and communities by providing a comprehensive array of mental health services and supports to them and their families.
High-Fidelity Wraparound is a natural approach to care planning designed to support youth with complex needs and their families. Services are delivered in four phases following the ten principles of Wraparound. Wraparound serves children and youth from 0 to 21 to enhance placement stability for those who may be at risk of losing placement.
An intensive 3-4 month program provided to youth needing immediate assistance for stabilization. Working closely with caregivers, skills are developed to replace high-risk behaviors.
Tailors program services for children, age birth to 3, and pregnant women to improve outcomes in cognitive, language and social-emotional development through weekly home visits.
Provides services and activities that educate, develop skills and connect families to community resources. The FRC located in Sacramento’s Oak Park community offers parenting workshops, home visitation, school readiness and crisis intervention services. Expecting parents, children and youth through age 17 are welcome.
Practices
The Incredible Years® evidence based parenting programs focus on strengthening parenting competencies and improving attachment and interactions with their child. The target ages for our parent group is ages 6-12. We also have a skill building group for ages 6-9 that clients of River Oak Center for Children attend while their parents/caregiver attend group. The interventions taught in these programs are suitable to treat aggressive behavior problems, and ADHD. This program is evidenced based to prevent conduct problems, delinquency, violence, and drug abuse.
MI is a client-centered counseling style that helps a person identify and change a behavior that is not consistent with their personal values or goals. The person identifies the problems, consequences, risks and benefits of the behavior as they move through change.
TIP assists transition aged youth bridge the gap from adolescence to young adulthood through gaining skills and engaging in their own futures planning.
This research-based program works to equip youth aged 13-18 years with developing social, anger management and moral reasoning skills in a group setting. Parents/caregivers are encouraged to attend the 10 week workshop with their youth.
Is a cognitive-behavioral treatment for ages 8-17 to treat anxiety disorders.
PC-CARE is a 6 session program where therapists teach and coach caregivers to increase their positive parenting skills and to find the behavior management strategies that are most effective for their child.
A cognitive behavioral treatment approach using a problem solving focus belnded with acceptance-based strategies for use with youth with emotional dysregulation and co-occuring disorders.
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Model is a comprehensive home-visiting, parent education model. The model provides services to families with children from prenatal through kindergarten.
Evidence based treatment program that is designed to help both parents and children. The PCIT program works with parents and children together to improve the quality of the parent-child relationship and to teach parents the skills necessary to manage their child’s challenging behavior problems.
Designed for adolescent and young adult individuals who are misusing substances to raise consciousness, inspire hope, and motivate informed, internally driven, sincere decisions to changes. Once such decisions are made, we teach the tools and provide the support that ensures success.
Designed to help children and youth overcome the negative effects of traumatic events such as physical or sexual abuse, traumatic loss of a loved one or violence. It targets symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and behavior problems.
Services offered to complement treatment programs
Consulting psychiatrists provide psychiatric evaluation, medication monitoring and consultation. These services are available by referral in most clinical programs.
Staff psychologists provide assessment and consultation to ensure the highest quality of service and outcome.
Available to all youth and families served by the agency, youth and families are empowered through support and information to access resources needed to manage the treatment process and have their voices heard.
Skills Trainers teach and coach social skills and life skills to youth ages 5 through 25. This approach is grounded in evidence-based methods like Skillstreaming, which uses modeling, rehearsal, feedback, and roleplay to teach these skills.