About Us

Facts About C.A.L.M. The Only Non-Profit Social Services Agency in the County Dedicated to the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect Child Abuse Listening and Mediation Also Available in Spanish Through The Los Consejeros Program
1236 Chapala Street,Santa Barbara, California 93101 Telephone 805 965-2376
Prevention
	C.A.L.M.'s School Based Prevention Program teaches pre-schoolers, Head Start students, Kindergarteners, 4th and 7th Graders how to prevent abduction and abuse. Healthy Families prevent child abuse and neglect from ever occuring by identifying families at risk of abuse when a child is born into the family. A home visitor provides an individual prevention, education and support plan. Parent Education Classes teach parents about what to expect from their children at various age levels. In addition,how to respond with love and praise rather than rage and criticism.
Treatment
	Therapy For Children helps children develop trust and express their emotions. This creates a meaningful outlook for the innocent lives shattered by abuse and neglect. FamilyTherapy provides support for siblings and parents of abused children. Families are helped to understand what allowed the abuse to happen and how to create safe and supportive environments. Adult Survivor Therapy helps adults who were molested as children to make good decisions for themselves, develop healthy relationships, and protect their own children from abuse. Therapy For Offenders teaches perpetrators to accept responsibility for their behaviors and how to keep themselves from reoffending.
Intervention
	Calm's Volunteer Family Aides give children and parents the opportunity to relate to a caring adult who offers child care, transportation to CALM, and support for a family in crisis. Crisis Intervention is provided through CALM's 24 hour telephone hot-line, which has saved hundreds of children from physical and sexual abuse because help was just a phone call away. CALM's Interview Specialists are forensically trained to interview children who have reported abuse ,so reliable evidence can be collected. Traumatizing multi-agency interviews are avoided so that the healing process may begin.