Business Details
48 Years
experience
Your Trusted Family Support Partner in Santa Rosa
Founded in 1978, Child Parent Institute has been a trusted leader in family support and children's mental health services throughout Sonoma County. Our organization provides a comprehensive continuum of care, including child therapy, parent education programs, family resource assistance, and supervised visitation services. With over four decades of experience, we combine deep expertise in trauma-informed care and child development to address behavioral challenges, life transitions, and intergenerational trauma.As advocates for family-centered policies and child abuse prevention, we maintain strong partnerships with local schools and community organizations to strengthen family resilience. Our team of licensed professionals and certified educators delivers evidence-based programs that empower caregivers while fostering safe, nurturing environments for children to thrive.
Services
Parenting Classes
Child Therapy
Foster Parent Training
School-Based Services
Parent Mentor Program
Supervised Visitation
Family Counseling
Non-Public School
Advocacy Support
Community Education
Details
- Year established: 1978
Highlights and features
- We offer over 45 years of experience in family-centered mental health services
- Our team includes licensed therapists and certified parenting educators
- We provide multilingual (English/Spanish) services across Sonoma County
- We integrate evidence-based practices with trauma-informed care approaches
- Our advocacy work advances child welfare policies at the community level
Associations and certifications
- IRS 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
Services
Parenting Classes
Our comprehensive parenting programs help caregivers develop effective strategies for raising children. We offer evidence-based curricula like Triple P and specialized courses covering behavior management, trauma-informed care, and special needs parenting. All programs are available in both English and Spanish to serve diverse families across Sonoma County.
Child Therapy
Our licensed therapists provide individual and family therapy for children facing behavioral challenges, developmental transitions, and trauma exposure. Using trauma-informed approaches, we address anxiety, attachment issues, and behavioral disorders while helping families build stronger relationships and coping mechanisms through both in-person and virtual sessions.
School-Based Services
We deliver specialized mental health support through schools via our Non-Public School and counseling programs. Services include academic interventions, behavioral support, and mental health counseling for at-risk youth. Our school-based teams collaborate with educators to create safe learning environments and implement prevention programs for students across Sonoma County.
Foster Parent Training
Our foster parent programs provide essential training on trauma-informed care, special needs parenting, and navigating child welfare systems. We offer both initial certification and ongoing continuing education to support foster families, with specialized courses addressing autism, neurodivergence, and complex trauma in child welfare placements.
Parent Mentor Program
This program connects families with experienced parent mentors who provide guidance through challenging situations. Mentors share practical strategies from personal and professional experience while offering emotional support. The program focuses on building parenting confidence and problem-solving skills through one-on-one mentoring relationships.
Questions
What age groups do your services cover?
We serve families with children from infancy through adolescence. Our programs address developmentally appropriate needs for all stages from early childhood to young adulthood.
Are services available in languages besides English?
Yes, most of our parenting classes and support programs are available in both English and Spanish to better serve Sonoma County's diverse communities.
Do you offer online counseling options?
We provide hybrid services including virtual therapy sessions and online parenting classes through secure platforms to ensure accessibility for all families.
How can I get involved as a volunteer?
We welcome volunteers through our community partners network. Contact our main office to learn about current opportunities supporting our parenting programs and outreach initiatives.
What makes your approach different from other family services?
Our integrated model combines clinical expertise with community advocacy, focusing on both immediate family needs and systemic changes to support child welfare policies.
How do you measure program effectiveness?
We track outcomes through pre/post assessments showing significant improvements in parenting confidence, child behavior, and family resilience across our service areas.
Reviews (4)
Matthew Dudley
Aug 07, 2020
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Haven't gotten a response from the diaper project in over 2 months are they still going on or not And does anyone know the phone number specifically to the diaper project they don't have the prompt for it when you call the phone number that they give you on Google
Udave Vasquez
Jul 25, 2019
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They are doing a great job for the community. Thank you so much for giving free diapers for people in need.
Trae Martin
Aug 17, 2018
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Nice friendly staff. My instructor was polite and caring and had lots of good insight aside from the actuall class itself. She was more than willing to hang around and answer questions and give advice and resources. I was told that they were working on making it easier to go onto the website and find classes and upcoming course schedules.
Penny Wolfsohn
Jul 18, 2014
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This Agency does so much in so many ways to benefit the families of Sonoma County, I almost dont know where to begin. I guess, from my personal experience as the director of the YWCAs "A Special Place, therapeutic preschool program, from 1989 until 1999,approx. is a good place to start. Parenting help for our parents and so many others in the community was unique at the time, and saved so many parents, often single moms, who were struggling to do this important job, for which we had little to no education, at the time. This agency continues to be a Shining Light for parents and children
