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Child Parent Institute - Santa Rosa (Family Resource Center and New Directions School)

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  • Location Address: 3642 Standish Avenue | Santa Rosa, CA 95407
  • reviews Rating: 4.46 (48 reviews)
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About Child Parent Institute - Santa Rosa (Family Resource Center and New Directions School)

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, therapeutic and recreational creative arts programming, and a non-public school (New Directions) providing adolescent special education/mental health services. We advocate for policies that support families and protect children.

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  • person icon Gary Lucas - Owner

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  • Education badge E. John Evans, Board President

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  • English

3642 Standish Avenue, CA, 95407

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  • orange phone icon (707) 585-6108
  • orange mail icon cpi@calparents.org

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4.46
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google review

Amazing place with free services. They help you through therapy that truly has made a positive impact on my daughters life and mine. They even helped me with a one time rental assistance program that saved me from eviction. I have received gas cards and cards for food when things got really hard for me financially. I recommend anyone that needs support as a parent reach out and get on a wait list to get support. The wait list takes a long time so I recommend doing it sooner than later. So grateful to this institute. Thank you.

Isabel Rowley
28 April 2024
google review

The instructor was very helpful. Some confusion between identifying the school and the clinic. Location pick was of the clinic. No one answered the door to tell me that classes were given across the parking lot. Definitely noticed some others confused about the same detail.

Jeremiah Schmidt
28 April 2024
google review

Great parentingfostering and adoption classesAmazing instructors

Jose “Ruben” Diaz
28 July 2023
google review

Havent gotten a response from the diaper project in over 2 months are they still going on or not And does anyone know the phone number specifically to the diaper project they dont have the prompt for it when you call the phone number that they give you on Google

Matthew Dudley
28 April 2021
google review

Love this place. They helped me get diapers when its hard to find the right size.

Maria Widmer
28 April 2021
google review

Very helpful community resource. They serve many parents in need.

Eva Granahan
28 April 2021
google review

They are doing a great job for the community. Thank you so much for giving free diapers for people in need.

Udave Vasquez
28 April 2020
yelp review

I took my daughter there this month to see her mother who is assigned to Supervised Visits. CPIs job is to monitor the children to keep them safe. During...

Dave C.
21 July 2019
google review

Nice friendly staff. My instructor was polite and caring and had lots of good insight aside from the actuall class itself. She was more than willing to hang around and answer questions and give advice and resources. I was told that they were working on making it easier to go onto the website and find classes and upcoming course schedules.

Trae Martin
28 April 2019
yelp review

If I could leave no stars I sure would they have the worst secretary and worst counselors who were a pain in my rear end. I have since gone elsewhere and...

Jennifer S.
30 May 2018
google review

This Agency does so much in so many ways to benefit the families of Sonoma County I almost dont know where to begin. I guess from my personal experience as the director of the YWCAs A Special Place therapeutic preschool program from 1989 until 1999approx. is a good place to start. Parenting help for our parents and so many others in the community was unique at the time and saved so many parents often single moms who were struggling to do this important job for which we had little to no education at the time. This agency continues to be a Shining Light for parents and children to this day and is continuing to be innovative as well. Check out the Website to better understand the amazing work the talented professionals who work at CPI do .

Penny Wolfsohn
28 April 2015
google review

I have had TWO HORRIBLE experiences with California Parenting Institute They are discriminatory they allowed my daughters father to RUN their show when I complained they were more concerned I was going to do this out their business than correct the problem and retaliated against me Violating my first amendment freedom of speech and Californias Anti-SLAPP laws They will not tell the courts they are 15 months out on a waiting list and therefore help break California Legislation for close and continuing contact. This place is parasitic and feeds off the courts disfunction and aids and abets child kidnapping because they are not honest on what they write which can be used against you later in court.I would encourage everyone to do everything via email so you have proof of what they are doing. They allowed my ex to mess around with the court order for weeks when a spot came open and he didnt comply as Usual I asked for enough time for a ex parte motion this place is making so much money they told me too bad we cant hold this spot even though I was on a waiting list for that time slot. If it aint easy money they dont want you as a client. They would not give me mother a week to get the court order needed to see my daughter and its because of them and their unwillingness to work with me they have helped father withhold and abduct my daughter. This is the SECOND TIMEThey refused me service because they didnt want me to complain about the discrimination between bending over for fathers rights vs. being equal and giving me the same amount of time to get things straightened out with the court. So in retaliation they have refused me service giving father carte blanche to withhold our daughter. This place is only interested in Money Money Money not the best interest of families dont be fooled your just a number with a price tag attached to your back

Barbara Monroe
28 April 2015
yelp review

Great classes. Teachers know how to help co-parentingThey give instruction to learning to deal with new conflicts and manage relationships so that the...

Jason Z.
11 June 2014

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