The Children’s Receiving Home is one of three agencies selected to participate in the Residentially Based Services Reform Demonstration Project for Sacramento County. RBS is designed as an 18 month intensive service program that focuses on permanency and provides a comprehensive approach to providing the right services, at the right time and in the right location, for youth who require group home care and their families. Six to nine months of services are provided while the youth is residing at CRH and then an additional nine months of services is provided in the community once the youth returns home or to the care of a non-related extended family member.
The program model includes an arc of care that is provided by one team that follows the youth and family from residential care to the community. The key program components include:
• Extensive family involvement in care planning
• Short term, highly intensive residential care
• Parallel, pre-discharge, community based services with the youth and family
• Permanency services
• Respite services
• Post residential discharge aftercare and support
Who is eligible for RBS at CRH?
• Girls ages 12 -16 years who are currently residing in or at risk of residing in high level group care and referred by Sacramento County Children’s Protective Services
• Youth who have emotional and behavioral needs that cannot be satisfactorily treated in a less restrictive setting
• Youth who have had no more that 1 group home placement
• Youth who have a current connection to a family or non-related extended family member that is a viable resource as a permanency option
• Youth who are not currently receiving wraparound services
"Of all the charities out there, CRH is the most worthwhile. It serves the community in a unique way that just can't be duplicated."
~ Bernard "Bud" Lewis, M.D., Former Pediatrician/Board Member
