For Families: Other Resources

Overview

Website Links to Outside Resources

Strong Families Yolo

Strong Families Yolo is a new website that encourages everyone to play a part in caring for Yolo children and strengthening Yolo families. Whatever our role in the community – friend, educator, business owner, parent, person of faith – there are ways we can support children and families in Yolo County.

Visit www.StrongFamiliesYolo.org today to find out how you can help make Yolo families stronger!

For Yolo County resources, call 2-1-1 or visit www.211yolocounty.com

For more information about Yolo County resources in the following areas, call 2-1-1 or visit www.211yolocounty.org.

Basic Needs

  • Crisis Services
  • Disaster Response
  • Employment & Finance
  • Housing
  • Public Assistance & Benefit Programs
  • Utilities
  • Household & Hygiene (including clothing)
  • Food
  • Farmers’ Markets (Freshtext & Markettext)
  • Transportation
  • Children & Family
    • Children & Family (including Family Resource Centers and parenting classes)
    • Youth & Young Adults
    • Education

Health

  • Healthcare
  • Mental Health
  • Maternal Wellness
  • Substance Abuse Assistance
  • Legal Services
    • Legal Aid
    • Vital records and certificates

Special populations

  • Individuals with Disabilities
  • Seniors
  • Veterans
  • Animals

Resource Lists for Parents

The Yolo Family Strengthening Network (YFSN) Resource Lists for Parents have local and national resources related to parenting and child development to support you and your child. The five resource lists are organized by the Strengthening Families Framework Protective Factors. The lists are updated versions of Yolo Maternal Mental Health Collaborative Resource Lists.

Pregnancy and Postpartum

  • Baby Center provides pregnancy information, such as pregnancy aches and pains, weight gain and nutrition, what’s safe during pregnancy and what’s not, pregnancy stages, labor and delivery. 
  • The Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) Program provides supplemental food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and links with community resources. It serves low- to moderate-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk. Call 530-666-8445 (Woodland) or 916-375-6390 (West Sacramento).
  • Postpartum Support International (PSI) provides information and resources about pregnancy and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, including depression. It also has a warm-line, or toll-free telephone number, anyone can call to get basic information, support and resources. Warm-line messages are returned every day of the week, and they have a confidential voicemail.  Call (800) 944-4773.
    * Note this is not a crisis hotline and does not handle emergencies. If you are in crisis, please call your physician, 911, or one of the suicide crisis hotlines listed below.

Caring for Children

Hotlines and Local Help

  • National Parent Helpline at 1-855-4A PARENT (1-855-427-2736) provides parents and caregivers with emotional support and refers them to services if necessary. 
  • Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453). Available 24/7 and in 200 languages, the hotline offers crisis intervention, information, literature, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls are confidential.
  • Children’s Home Society provides referrals to local childcare and provides assistance paying for childcare for income qualifying families. Call (530) 723-5225.
  • The Yolo Crisis Nursery provides safe, temporary care for children up through age 5 when parents need a place for their children while they are dealing with emergencies, or even just so that they can deal with a medical issue, an unexpected job situation, or just need a break. Services are voluntary and free. Call (530) 758-6680.
  • The Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) Program provides supplemental food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and links with community resources. It serves low- to moderate-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk. Call (530) 666-8445 (Woodland) or (916) 375-6390 (West Sacramento).

Information

Injury Prevention

Hotlines and Car Seat Checks

  • Nationwide Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-122 offers free, confidential, expert medical advice 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 
  • Child Car Seat Inspection Station Locator can help you find a child car seat inspection station nearest you. Certified technicians will inspect your child car seat, in most cases, free of charge – and show you how to correctly install and use it. 

Information

Bullying

  • Stopbullying.gov provides information about what bullying is and what it is not, the warning signs of bullying, and steps to take for preventing and responding to bullying, including how to talk to children about bullying, prevention in schools and communities, and how to support children involved.

Child Abuse and Neglect

Hotlines

  • Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) is available 24/7 and in 200 languages, the hotline offers crisis intervention, information, literature, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls are confidential. 
  • Call Yolo County Child Welfare Services at 530-669-2345 or 1-888-400-0022 if you suspect that a child is being abused or neglected.

Information

Child Sexual Abuse

Hotline

  • Empower Yolo Crisis Line provides crisis support for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking. Trained advocates are available 24/7 to provide crisis intervention, emotional support, advocacy, information and referrals. Call (530) 662-1133 or (916) 371-1907.
  • Call Yolo County Child Welfare Services at (530) 669-2345 or 1-888-400-0022 if you suspect that a child is being abused or neglected.

Information

  • Stop It Now! works to prevent child sexual abuse from occurring. It provides information about sexual abuse, normal and concerning adult and child behaviors, tips on how to talk about sexual abuse, resources, and an email and phone helpline. For warning signs of possible sexual abuse, visit: http://www.stopitnow.org/ohc-content/tip-sheet-7  
  • The Enough Abuse Campaign provides information and resources to help stop child sexual abuse. The website includes prevention messages, conversation starters, red flags, what to do if you suspect sexual abuse, and actions individuals, including parents, can take to prevent child sexual abuse.

Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence

Hotlines and information

  • Empower Yolo provides free and confidential support to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and child abuse. In addition to walk-in crisis support, emergency shelter, counseling and legal services, Empower Yolo also has a Crisis Line where trained advocates are available 24/7 to provide crisis intervention, emotional support, advocacy, information and referrals. Call (530) 662-1133 or
    (916) 371-1907.
  • RAINN is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. It has information on sexual assault, safe and prevention, after sexual assault, and public policy and action. It also has a free, confidential National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE and offers chatting on the website as well. 

Mental Health

Mental Health in Children

  • Mentalhealth.gov provides information for parents and caregivers about warning signs of mental health struggles in children, what to do if there are concerns, and how to talk about mental health with children. 
  • The Children’s Mental Health website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains childhood mental health disorders, symptoms, and treatments, and has information about data and research.  
  • Emotional Wellness from the American Academy of Pediatrics has articles about various topics related to children’s mental health. Subjects include how to talk to children about conflict, disasters, terrorism, and school shootings; the benefits of music and yoga; and tips on how to help children handle stress.  
  • 60 Digital Resources for Mental Health from Social Work License Map is a comprehensive list of resources for anyone seeking information about and/or help for a range of mental health issues.

Suicide

Hotlines and information

  • Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services of Yolo County has a 24-hour Yolo Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-888-233-0228 where you can get confidential, anonymous telephone counseling and referral information by trained crisis volunteers. It also as an ASK Teen Crisis Line, and School Safety Tip Lines. It also provides a Survivors of Suicide Support Group. 
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24/7 skilled, trained counseling at a crisis center in your area (for Yolo County, it’s the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services of Yolo County). It also provides information about mental health (therapy, safety plan, coping, tragedies) and prevention (risk factors and warning signs). Call 1-800-273-8255 (in 150 languages) or talk to someone in Spanish at 1-888-628-9454.

Information

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information about the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and its implications. 
  • ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people. 
  • Resilient Yolo is a Yolo County group committed to educating people in Yolo County about ACEs, resilience, and trauma-informed and resilience-building practices.