Ken Berrick appeared on KQED's Forum program again, this time the topic was mental health issues in the Juvenile Justice system.
Download the program here (format: mp3/size: 23.8Mb) (Windows: right-click and choose "Save Target As." Mac: hold Ctrl, click link, and choose "Save As.")
Download the program here (format: mp3/size: 23.7Mb) (Windows: right-click and choose "Save Target As." Mac: hold Ctrl, click link, and choose "Save As.")
For more information, go to the KQED website: click here.
Dr. George Stewart from Seneca Center presented at the Cebu Youth Trauma Therapy Conference in the Phillipines in February 2008. To read an article about this conference from the Cebu Daily News, please click on the link below.
SAUSALITO, CA, April 26, 2008 – More than 200 children will participate in The Art of Transformation, the second annual art exhibition which honors the extraordinary creations of children who receive treatment from Edgewood Center for Children and Families, Lincoln Child Center, Sand Paths Academy, Seneca Center, and Sunny Hills Services. The collective agencies are non-profit organizations that provide mental health services to the Bay Area’s at-risk children and families. Last year’s exhibition was a wonderful success, bringing together supporters of all the agencies to celebrate children and the arts.
More than 77,000 foster children live in California, more than in any other state. For decades, members of this largely invisible population have been moved from home to home until they were "emancipated" at age 18 and cut off from services.
But the safety net for these youths might be expanding soon. ...
What is the look, the smell and taste, the feeling and sound of Peace? Local artists participate in Sensing Peace, a collaborative art benefit that explores the connection between the ways in which we sense the world and creating a more peaceful world. ...
Last year, nearly 400 teenagers in Alameda County were treated for a serious emotional disorder and then released back to their homes. While there probably were more who could have been reached ...
Martin Ricard, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area Article
02/04/2007
Seneca to implement a new therapy program to work with youths in the Alameda County probation system, and their families, slated to help keep youths at home, in school and out of juvenile hall. ...
On August 28th, Seneca Center will be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the opening of its Community Treatment Facility for adolescents in Contra Costa, California with an open house party. ...