6767 Green Valley Road, Placerville, California 95667, United States
Assisting Families for Over 20 years
Strengthening Families is not “another initiative” that adds to the workload of a program or agency. It is an approach that can be applied to any interaction with children and families. Implementing strengthening families is about small but significant changes in everyday practice. Families gain what they need to be successful when key protective factors
are robust in their lives and communities. Here are some everyday actions you can share with a struggling family:
Parental Resilience: Managing stress and functioning well when faced with challenges, adversity, and trauma.
- Demonstrate in multiple ways that parents are valued
- Encourage parents to manage stress effectively
- Help parents understand how to buffer their child during stressful times
Social Connections: Positive relationships that provide emotional, informational, instrumental, and spiritual support.
- Help families value, build, sustain, and use social connections
- Create an inclusive environment
Concrete Support in Times of Needs: Access to concrete support and services that address a family’s needs and help minimize stress caused by challenges.
- Provide information and connections to services in the community
- Help families to develop the skills and tools they need to identify their needs and connect to supports
Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development: Understanding child development and parenting strategies that support physical, cognitive, language, social, and emotional development.
- Provide information and resources on parenting and child development
- Encourage parents to observe, ask questions, explore parenting issues, and try out new strategies
Social and Emotional Competence of Children: Family and child interactions help children develop the ability to communicate, recognize and regulate their emotions, and establish and maintain relationships.
- Help children develop a positive cultural identity and interact in a diverse society
- Respond proactively when social or emotional development needs extra support
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH: EVENTS
Take note of the major events happening in the community to support Child Abuse Prevention Month!
Wear Blue for Kids - Every Friday in April
Did you know that blue is the color that represents child abuse prevention across the country. Get your prevention wear together and join leaders, neighbors, child welfare professionals and the Child Abuse Prevention Council in raising awareness that child abuse can be prevented!
#pinwheels4prevention
Pinwheels represent the carefree, fun childhood every child deserves. Plant a garden of hope at your home or business during the month of April!
Get your pinwheels today, plant them and send us photos. Better yet, hold a Pledges for Prevention event with your friends and family.
Covid-19 Information Check out "Community News" tab for more!
FYI From WIC El Dorado County
WIC is available by phone!
During this time of limited social contact, WIC is not seeing appointments in person through the month of April. In addition, we WILL NOT be traveling to our remote sites:
Georgetown, Pioneer Park,
El Dorado Hills and Pollock Pines.
We will be contacting our already scheduled appointments. The State will automatically issue April benefits on April 1st to all eligible participants. For those needing recertification or enrollment, we will conduct your appointment by phone and issue benefits remotely.
If you have friends or family who need WIC
please give them our number.
We are happy to enroll new families by phone!
(530) 621-6176 English (530) 621-6171 Spanish
Families grow healthy with WIC!
Our Focus
The Child Abuse Prevention Council is a community council whose primary purpose is to coordinate the community’s efforts to prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect. It is comprised of 15 members of the community, each appointed by the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. The Council acts as an independent entity and is coordinated through a contract between the El Dorado County Department of Human Services and the El Dorado County Office of Education. The Child Abuse Prevention Council functions include:
· Acts as the Children’s Trust Fund Commission
· Provides a forum for interagency communication and coordination
· Facilitates the training and education for professionals in the detection and treatment of child abuse and neglect
· Recommends improvements in services to families and victims
· Promotes public awareness of abuse and neglect of children and the resources available for intervention and treatment.
Community Hubs
Community Hubs offer classes, groups, and activities for expectant parents and families with children ages 0-18, staffed by a team of family engagement, literacy and health specialists. Click me to find your HUB!
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up.
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
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