Program areas at CFLC
Board and care: cflc allows time and opportunities for healing through a treatment program that utilizes the "power of a normal environment", counseling, education, and independent living skill development. Caring staff members 'parent' the youth throughout the daily routine of chores, meals, school, outings, gardening, and care for pets and livestock. The youth homes provided residential treatment for 32 at risk female adolescents at 3 facilities in hemet.
Foster families: foster families play an active role in the foster child's education and emotional and physical health. Foster kids need advocacy at school and help with their homework, regular medical and dental checkups, many will be in counseling, and most will have frequent supervised visits with their natural parents. Children may need to be a part of a Family for a few weeks, or a few years, depending on the courts' evaluation of their parent's rehabilitation. The organization placed 186 abused and neglected children in foster homes this year.
Youth employment training: cflc's youth opportunity centers in hemet, lake elsinore, and rubidoux help identify career aptitudes for young job seekers ages 16-21, teach interview skills and customer service, arrange paid internships and employment in the business community and connect them to higher education. An experienced youth development specialist tracks each participant's progress, guiding, encouraging, coaching (and sometimes parenting) them for a full two years. The centers enrolled 700 at risk youth in job training and education programs during the year.
Chaplaincy- the kin care programs, support relatives raising children in their extended Family, served 299 families in this reporting period.