Crittenton in the News

Long Beach Press Telegram quoted Crittenton's Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President of Community Services, and  this year's co-chair of the Youth Exploitation and Safety Symposium 2015 event. Dr. Hernandez spoke to the importance of the community to get involved with local schools and organizations the serve youth in order to help stop the recruitment of children into a life of human trafficking....

Crittenton's Communications Director, Martha Jasso, quoted by the Long Beach Grunion Gazette about the Youth Exploitation and Safety Symposium 2015 event. This year's event was made possible by host partners the Long Beach Trafficking Task Force, Long Beach Unified School District, and the Long Beach PTA. Crittenton served as a co-chair of this year's event....

Contributing writer, Brittany Patterson, for the Chronicle of Social Change recently covered the realities of housing options for commercially sexually exploited youth (CSEC) in the State of California. Despite the strict regulations, lack of funding and lack of public support for residential treatment centers due mostly to cost Ms. Patterson profiled one group home in Northern California that is doing an exceptional job in advocating...

Rebecca Epstein, Executive Director, of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality has written an opinion editorial for the December 23, 2014 OC Register edition on turning our new awareness of trafficking into stronger action against it. By addressing girls’ history of trauma and the compounding serial-rape horror of trafficking itself. And the effort to do so must be as multidimensional as the problem itself. Ms. Epstein...

Recent FullertonStories.com article published the generosity Crittenton Services for Children and Families donors, volunteers, and supporters recently demonstrated in the Annual Crittenton Angel Tree Program. This yearly gift drive is designed to connect donors to the needs of our clients in the form of a holiday gift....

US Congressman Ed Royce writes an opinion editorial for OC Register for their current human trafficking in Orange County, Calif. series where he discusses the current work being accomplished in his Human Trafficking Congressional Advisory Committee. Crittenton Services for Children and Families is mentioned and praised for serving children who have been commercially sexually exploited in Southern California. ...

Brittany Patterson, Contributing Writer, of the Chronicle of Social Change reaches out to Crittenton's CEO, Joyce Cappelle on the topic of the recent infusion of interest and funding in the state of California to create a comprehensive plan to better serve commercially sexually exploited children....

Crittenton's CEO, Joyce Capelle, letter to the editor in the December 12, 2014 edition of the OC Register thanks the editors for their current series of opinion editorials addressing of human trafficking in Orange County, Calif....

Behind the Badge OC covers the recent partnership between Crittenton Services for Children and Families and the Fullerton Police Department on how to train officers on how to engage with and help young minor victims of sex trafficking should they ever come across a victim while on patrol....

Lucero Noyola was a former Crittenton youth placed in Crittenton's Residential Treatment Center. Today, she is a University of Southern California student who recently was selected for their Guardian Scholars Program, based on her academic achievement. The scholarship program is designed to assist former foster youth with their higher education dreams. Lucero is now a senior at USC, an undergraduate research assistant, and a honors...