Prevent Child Abuse California

Foster youth initiative: pcaca's foster youth initiative (fyi) program seeks to better prepare foster youth for a healthy productive adulthood by enrolling americorps members to serve as foster youth mentors who provide academic support, teach life skill competencies, and improve financial literacy.

Strategies technical assistance: pcaca and the children's bureau of southern california expanded its implementation of strategies technical assistance (ta) to provide support to california counties in the development of a comprehensive sustainable unified county child abuse prevention plan developed by a county-wide mulit-disciplinary collaborative dedicated to meeting the needs of at-risk children and families. Strategies provides ta support to 21 california counties conducting needs assessments, providing collaborative facilitation support, assisting with data and information gathering, coaching county leadership, and hosting webinars with national subject matter experts.

Prevent abuse through home visitation: prevent abuse through home visitation (path), in partnership with county first 5 commissions and community based service sites, enrolled americorps members to provide parenting education through evidence-based home visitation models. Path provided family strengthening services in areas such as food securty and health education to ensure they had concrete supports in times of need. First 5 service corps: first 5 service corps partnered with county first 5 commissions and community based service sites to improve the social, emotional, literacy, and math skills of economically disadvantaged children during their first five years of life. The primary outcome is to prepare children to be ready to learn when they enter school. Services include child development skills building through home visits, family resource center groups, and classrooms. Prevent child abuse california serves as the intermediary under contract to the california children & families foundation. Training: prevent child abuse california trained americorps members serving in the first 5 service corps, foster youth initiative, and prevent abuse through home visitation programs. The required trainings ensure members acquire the skills and competencies necessary to effectively serve parents, children, youth, and families and foster a commitment to national service. Trainings include, but are not limited to, mandated child abuse reporting, boundaries and confidentiality, casey life skills, academic support, nurturing parenting, protective factors, early literacy, math and financial literacy, social-cognitive skills and child/youth development.