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Childrens Mental Health Matters
Children’s Mental Health Matters: Challenge Grant Helping Girls Cope with Trauma

Children's Mental Health Matters: Challenge Grant Helping Girls Cope with Trauma At a time when there are talks of deep budget cuts to health and human services at the federal level, organizations like Crittenton Services need your support more than ever. For those supporters that care and strongly advocate for accessible and affordable children's mental health, for example, please remember that mental health, in general, is not necessarily talked about...

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Crittenton Reaches 50 Year Milestone of Healing Childhood Trauma

Crittenton's 50th Anniversary Celebration As a non-profit whose primary goals are to deliver trauma-informed mental health services and help rebuild resiliency in system-involved children, youth and families we are proud to continue this long standing legacy as we now enter our 50th year of service. This serves as a perfect moment to also mention that as we continue to celebrate Crittenton's golden anniversary their is still much...

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Crittenton Celebrates 50 Years of Serving Children, Youth and Families

Celebrating 50 Years of Serving Children, Youth and Families in Southern California Crittenton Services Reaches Half-Century Milestone of Healing Childhood Trauma   Fullerton, CA – Crittenton Services for Children and Families will be hosting a luncheon at the Summit House Restaurant in Fullerton, Calif. on June 3, 2016 from 11:30 a.m to 2:00 p.m in order celebrate the non-profit’s long running legacy of providing comprehensive mental health, social...

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Crittenton’s Mystery Night 2016 Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Celebration

It was the most attended Mystery Night event in Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) history! Nearly 200 guests attended this year’s Mystery Night an event that is one of Crittenton’s most engaging fundraisers. Even the Crittenton staff managing the Mystery Night set-up was pleasantly surprised of our final attendance rate and the interest we got in attending the fundraiser from the local community. “Despite the...

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Crittenton Sponsors the 2016 Youth Exploitation Safety Symposium

Healthy relationships are the best prevention. Time and time again Crittenton Services for Children and Families has documented that when a young person has no advocate or caring family member to protect them that is when abuse can happen. So, it is with pleasure that Crittenton is supporting the 2016 Youth Exploitation Safety Symposium and looking forward to seeing our very own Dr. Barbara Hernandez, Vice President, of Community Based...

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Crittenton Fundraiser to Help Young Victims of Trafficking

January 25, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families (714) 680-9000 ext. 6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org FULLERTON, Calif – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) is hosting its annual Mystery Night dinner and auction fundraiser to fund the non-profit’s efforts in helping teen girls placed in Crittenton’s care that are victims of abuse, neglect and exploitation. This year’s Mystery Night event will be Sunday, March 13, 2016 and...

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Southwest Conference Against Trafficking 2016 Arrives in Ontario, Calif.

January 5, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: National Women’s Coalition Against Violence & Exploitation (NWCAVE) Cell: (626) 644-3472
Office: (360) 852-8019 Email: michelle@nwcave.org   Southwest Conference Against Trafficking 2016 (SWCAT2016) San Bernardino County Community to Host Human Trafficking Awareness Event   Ontario, Calif. - We have a goal...

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Fullerton Senior Citizens Club Donates Funding to Crittenton and WTLC

August 20, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Crittenton Services for Children and Families (714) 680-6008 mjasso@crittentonsocal.org [caption id="attachment_3289" align="alignleft" width="300"] Fullerton Senior Citizens Club present donations to Crittenton Services and WTLC.[/caption] Fullerton, Calif. – Two Fullerton based non-profits, Crittenton Services for Children and Families and WTLC, are awarded a generous donation from the Fullerton Senior Citizens Club during the club’s monthly meeting on August 20, 2015. Each non-profit organization received a $1,000...

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Crittenton Partner Blog: CSEC as a Gender-Based Violence Issue

The commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) or sex trafficking of minors has garnered more attention from the criminal justice agencies as well as communities in these past years. From safe harbor laws (that protect minors being sex trafficked as victims instead of treating them as criminals) to higher penalties for traffickers and those who purchase sex from minors, the criminal justice-framed response echoes the...

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Crittenton’s Nexus with Women’s History Month

Visionary Leader within America's Child Welfare Legacy: Recently, the National Crittenton Foundation released an email blast that paid homage to one our founder’s, who in her own right, was a trailblazer in not just America’s child welfare movement but the women’s rights movement as well. For those that have studied social work, social services, or human services perhaps you might have discovered someone by the name of...

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