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California Children's Services program assists families when they are unable to pay for their child’s medical needs and if they have a qualifying medical condition.

The Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) program provides no-cost health checkups to children and youth from low-income families.

Assists families in providing preventive services when health and safety issues occur. CWS is dedicated to helping families achieve safety and stability, making sure children are protected from abusive and potentially harmful situations, and ensuring families in our system receive the services they need.

The Child Welfare Services (CWS) Family Advocate provides assistance to families involved in the CWS system. This may include birth parents, children, relatives, and resource families.

The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program works to prevent the damaging effects of lead poisoning. We can provide home visits, environmental home inspections, and nutritional assessments to families of children with severe lead poisoning.

The Children of Promise project helps middle and high school-aged children overcome these challenges and get their lives on track for success.

The Tulare County Mental Health Department (TCMH) is committed to providing high- quality health care services in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local rules and regulations.

Tulare County’s Mental Health Plan is dedicated to promoting and delivering cultural and linguistic competency activities across the Tulare County Mental Health System of Care.

As a child or youth in foster care, you may experience many challenges; here are some resources to help you tackle them.

Tulare County Mental Health provides a continuum of supportive housing that focuses on transitional, semi-independent, and permanent independent living throughout Tulare County.

To help Tulare County parents make sure their children get all the immunizations (shots) they need and at the right ages, the Immunization Program provides vaccines to children whose parents or guardians cannot afford them.

In the convenience and privacy of your own home, or at your local Family Resource Center, you can learn more about how to cope when problems arise and how to deal with a child’s disruptive behaviors before they become problems.

The Local Oral Health Program's (LOHP) mission is to improve the oral health of all Californians through prevention, education, and organized community efforts.

To make a report, a mandated reporter must contact the appropriate local law enforcement or county child welfare agency, listed on this page. 

The program provides courts with resources to improve participants’ social functioning and link them to employment, housing, treatment, and support services.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy emphasizes the relationship between you and your child. You will learn skills that will help you provide the type of support, guidance, and the nurturing your child requires.

Cal-Learn is a statewide program aimed to assist pregnant and parenting teens who receive CalWORKs in completing their high school diplomas or equivalent.

A “presumptive transfer” establishes a prompt transfer of responsibility for arranging specialty mental health services from the county of original jurisdiction to the county in which a foster child resides.