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Provides a quick way to find low-cost and no-cost health and
human services in Butte County.
Website: www.helpcentral.org
Phone: 211
Website: www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary
Provides preventative and intervention services to families with children in Butte County.
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Phone: (877) 410-8803
Butte County Adoptions facilitates adoptions of children in foster care.
Website: Click Here
Phone: (530) 538-5119
Butte County Behavioral Health provides mental health and substance use treatment to Medi-Cal beneficiaries, and provides crisis interventions to the community, regardless of insurance status.
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Phone: (530) 891-2810 or (800) 334-6622
An online video library of parenting and parenting advice. It contains over 8,000 videos from 450 experts.
Website: http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/
A national project of the US Children’s Bureau that provides tools and resources to support child welfare systems and connects children in foster care with families.
Website: http://www.adoptuskids.org/
Provides resources for foster parents, relative/kinship caregivers.
Website: http://www.childwelfare.gov/fostercaremonth/resources/caregivers/
A website that provides resources and a forum for child welfare professionals, foster, kinship, and adoptive parents.
Website: http://fosteringperspectives.org/
Provide useful resources and advices for parents, including foster parents, of children with disabilities.
A national network for young people in foster care. You will find stories shared by foster youths, supportive adult message board, and more.
Website: http://www.fosterclub.com/
A support group for foster parents to ask questions, share experiences, and to meet other foster parents.
Though not created specifically for foster parents, this is a resourceful website that provides information on various mental illnesses, from ADHD to bipolar disorder to schizophrenia. It details warning signs of mental illnesses, conditions of different illnesses, medications and treatments.
Website: http://www.nami.org/
Website: http://www.jbaforyouth.org/