Agency Details:

Child Abuse Prevention Center

The Child Abuse Prevention Center is committed to breaking the generational cycles of child abuse, teen pregnancy, and domestic violence in Orange County.

Description:
As a private, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Center provides family centered, culturally sensitive parent education and support to low-income and working poor families and their children. Our highly effective prevention programs address the social, environmental, and medical issues that can contribute to the incidence of child abuse and teen pregnancy such as medical distress, multiple births, teen parenting, children with special needs, poverty, a history of domestic violence, and/or a history of substance abuse.

The Prevention Center’s early intervention programs are unique in that a team of professionals go into clients’ homes to provide intensive parenting education and family support services. Prevention Center programs such as Teen Voices, Teen Choices provide educational and support services to young people throughout Orange County in educational programs and presentations. The goals for our prevention programs are to intervene early in the cycle of abuse, help families to access critical healthcare services, and ensure children are raised in a healthy, nurturing, and safe home environment.

One child at a time, one family at a time, we are improving the health and well being of families, building stronger communities, and preventing child abuse.

History:
Since 1984, the Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Center has been dedicated to breaking the generational cycle of child abuse, family violence, and teen pregnancy in our community. Since its inception, the Prevention Center has served over 190,000 children. Last year alone, nearly 15,000 children, over 3,800 parents, and over 4,300 families received parenting education, teen pregnancy prevention, and/or mentoring services from the Prevention Center, making it the largest child abuse prevention program in Orange County dedicated solely to reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect by improving parent-child relationships.

Contact people:

Elizabeth King, In-Kind & Development Coordinator, (phone), (email) Scott Trotter, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Beth Rubins, Fund Development, (phone), (email)

Main office number: (714) 543-4333
Office fax number: (714) 543-4398

Address:

500 South Main St., Suite 1100 Orange, CA 92868 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.brightfutures4kids.org

Directions:

From the 5 freeway: Exit Main Street, head North the Child Abuse Prevention Center is located on the 11th floor of the Union Bank Building at the intersection of Main and La Veta

Last updated on November 7, 2009