Child Parent Institute, formerly California Parenting Institute, is a parent education and children’s mental health agency serving families throughout Sonoma County since 1978. Our continuum of care includes child therapy, family resource assistance, parent education, facilitated supervised visitation and a non-public school (New Directions) providing adolescent special education/mental health services. We advocate for policies that support families and protect children.

PPSC is much more than a collection of 90 human services programs based on best practice research with measurable outcomes. We are a community of caregivers existing within the larger community whose sole purpose is to help make people’s lives better. We strive to do this one child, one adult, and one senior at a time. Last year we served over 42,000 people through our programs. The hands-on, face-to-face support that individuals receive from PPSC is wide ranging; counseling, economic sustainability, youth programing, daily hot meals, rides to the doctor, case management, homelessness prevention, and access to fresh food.

We support clients who are working to address their immediate basic human needs, enhance their life, and become self-sufficient by providing them with information, referrals, case management, and financial assistance.