Meet Our Partners

The CAPC has extensive coordination and collaborative relationships with agencies throughout Sacramento. Also, the Council is involved in regional and state networks of child abuse prevention councils. On a monthly basis, the Council has established meetings that include representatives from over 100 local agencies. The Council has existing MOU's with over 60 different agencies for a range of programs and collaborations. The organizations listed below represent the major constituencies with whom the Council has an ongoing relationship.

County Board of Supervisors/Public: By law, the Council is charged with providing the County Board of Supervisors information and recommendations on the operation of the child protective system, prevention and treatment programs, and emerging issues and trends.

Child Protective Systems/Child Support Systems: The Council serves both as a monitor of the systems designed to protect and serve children and also as a conveyor to bring together the multiple disciplines and divergent agencies to work more effectively and cooperatively.

Multidisciplinary Teams/Collaboratives: The Council provides a forum for inter-agency and multidisciplinary teams through staff support and by establishing a neutral setting for problem solving. Teams include: Child Protective System, Social Agencies, Health Agencies, Medical Community, Law Enforcement, and others.

Mandated Reporters: The Council provides, at no cost to the trainees, a range of child abuse and neglect training geared to the specific needs of the individuals and agencies. Some of those agencies are: Teachers, Aides and School Administrators, Health Care Providers, Social Workers, Law Enforcement Officers and other concerned groups.

Schools/Healthy Starts: The Council provides on-site prevention services to students and families in selected schools in most high risk areas. Further, the CAPC assists Healthy Starts and schools with funding strategies, child abuse and abduction curriculum, brochures and materials, training and other technical assistance.

Resource Centers: The Council assists in the development of new resource centers and provides ongoing technical assistance, staff support and training to existing resource centers which integrate multiple services and family support strategies.

Funding Entities: The Council maintains regular contact with all its funding entities providing comprehensive reports and evaluations of impacts and results.

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