CAARE Diagnostic and Treatment Center
Counseling for victims of crime
The CAARE Center provides mental health services for children who have experienced a crime, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, exposure to community violence, parental substance abuse, and neglect. Services focus on reducing the emotional and behavioral symptoms that can occur following a traumatic event. The CAARE Center offers free (grant funded) counseling services to eligible clients and their non-offending caregivers.
These services may include:
- Short-term crisis intervention
- Individual counseling for children and adolescents
- Community referrals and collaboration with community organizations
- Parent education and support
- School advocacy
- Assistance in establishing a funding source to transition into long-term counseling services, if indicated
- Services for individuals with disabilities and interpreting services
For children with a history of abuse and who exhibit the following symptoms:
- Nightmares
- Flashbacks
- Irritability
- Depression/sadness
- Poor self-image
- Toileting accidents (e.g. nighttime, wetting, daytime soiling)
- Anxiety/fears
- Sexualized behaviors
- Outbursts of anger/aggression
- Difficulties in school
- Problems with siblings
- Suicidal thoughts or self-harm behaviors
- Passive or withdrawn
- Fire setting
- Drug or alcohol use
Child Sexual Abuse Treatment (CSAT) program
The Child Sexual Abuse Treatment (CSAT) program provides Trauma-Focused Cognitive behavioral Therapy to children who have been sexually abused at the time of they are identified by law enforcement agencies and Child Protective Services. Non-offending parents and caregivers will receive support services designed to help them to respond to their children in a manner that will support their recovery and long-term emotional well being.
Contact information
If your child exhibits any of these symptoms, please contact:
Jenny Landini, LCSW
Phone: 916-291-7980
Email: jllandini@ucdavis.edu
