Dinuba Children's Services provides mental health services to children and families in Dinuba, California. It has a team-based structure including program directors, therapists, and crisis staff. The agency works with schools, health clinics, and other community organizations to serve at-risk children facing issues like abuse, neglect, poverty, and trauma. Its services include therapy, psychiatric evaluations, crisis intervention, and rehabilitation groups focused on social skills, anger management, and parenting support.

1. DINUBA CHILDREN'S SERVICES
144 SOUTH L. STREET
DINUBA CA. 93618
(559) 591-6680
PRESENTED BY
VIRGINIA RODRIGUEZ

2. SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES
Children face higher risks in developing mental
health problems, when they are faced with certain
dysfunctional issues. Some factors could be
emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse.
Neglect, discrimination, poverty, trauma, and
exposure to violence in the home, could also cause
mental health problems.

3. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
•program director
•assistance program director
•team leaders
•therapist
•rehab workers
•crisis team
•staff

4. COMMUNITY CONTEXT OF THE AGENCY
Dinuba children services works with many other
community agencies.
•Turning Point /Drug and alcohol
•Foster family agencies
•Court order clients
• School districts
•Law enforcement/probation
•Health clinic physicians
•Child welfare services

5. POPULATION AT RISK
Mentally I'll children
•children that are not treated with there mental
illness have higher difficulties while coping within
there environment
•It could intervene in their daily lives, at school, with
their families, legal systems, and communities.
•If children are treated with their mental illness they
could live a better life.
•Treating their mental illness could make their lives
easier and they could be able to cope better within,
their environment.

6. MISSION STATEMENT
Tulare county mental health develops, implements
and promotes mental health services in a
collaborative manner with consumers and family
members through program that foster the
consumers wellness and recovery process and that
are provided in a caring and culturally respectful
manner.

7. DINUBA CHILDREN SERVICES
•DCS establishes mental health services to be
provided to qualifying children, adolescents and
adults who are residents of Tulare county.
•DCS is a contracted service of the Tulare county
health and human services agency.
•DCS provides services to medical and healthy
families recipients residing in Northern Tulare
county.
•DCS is an agency that works with families in the
home, school and other agencies in the community .

8. AGENCYS PRACTICE
•Family Therapy/ Counseling
•Individual Therapy/counseling
•Crisis intervention
•Psychiatric evaluations
•Linkage services
• Rehabilitation groups
-Social skills
-Anger management
-Girls self- esteem
-Parenting support

9. SOCIAL WORK VALUES
National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics
•social justice
•dignity and worth of the person
•cultural competence
•integrity
DCS respects clients/ self discrimination
Informed consent, confidentiality , HIPPA

10. DINUBA CHILDREN SERVICES
DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of
mental disorders, fourth edition)
• The DSM-IV is an important tool that Dinuba
Children Services needs an order to diagnose a child.
• DSM-IV is an official Manuel of mental health
problems developed by the American Psychiatric
Association.