The CAARE Center provides patient care, teaching, research, and prevention initiatives for children and youth identified as high-risk.
The CAARE (Child and Adolescent Abuse Resource and Evaluation) Diagnostic and Treatment Center is recognized nationally as a model program for the evaluation and treatment of child maltreatment as well as training of mental health providers in empirically-based treatments. Our mission is to provide patient care, teaching, research and prevention initiatives on behalf of abused and neglected children and children and youth identified as high risk.
Our services and programs are funded through contracts, grants, fee-for-services patient care revenue, charitable events, and the United Way Employee Giving Program. Support the CAARE Center general fund.
U.S. News & World Report recently ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital among the nation’s best for for 2024–25 in five pediatric specialties, including pediatric and adolescent behavioral health. Being ranked in the magazine’s annual survey is a distinction given to only the top children’s hospitals in the United States.
The CAARE Center is an EPSDT (Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment) Medi-Cal provider. Eligible children can be referred through the Sacramento County ACCESS Team at 916-875-1055.
For expedited and walk-in appointments, please contact Ms. Gloria Sisneros at 916-732-8972.
Trauma Recovery Services are provided via a grant from the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES). Call us at 916-734-8396.
3671 Business Drive
Sacramento, CA 95820
