Strengthening Families, Building Futures

Kern County Network for Children serves many functions benefiting children and families in Kern County. We are currently responsible for the following key projects:

  • Administrative and fiscal agent for Kern County's Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) program, including the development of Differential Response in specific Family Resource Centers.

  • Administrative and fiscal agent for Kern County's Child Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment (CAPIT) program.

  • Administrative and fiscal agent for Kern County's Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) grant and the county's Children's Trust Fund.

  • Contracted provider of training and evaluation services in Kern County for Strategies, the California Endowment, and Kern Community Foundation.

  • Administrative home of Kern's Foster Youth Services program and AB490 liaison activities.

  • Provider of oversight, coordination, and technical assistance to Kern County's system of Accredited Local Community Collaboratives.

  • Development and coordination body responsible for Kern's Social Conditions GIS Mapping project.

  • Host of Kern County's Leadership Development program.

  • Coordination body of intra-agency projects, including Kern's Wraparound Services program for youth.

  • Training provider for county agencies, schools, and community-based organizations.

  • Administrative home of Get Moving Kern, a project funded by The California Endowment to address obesity prevention in Kern County.

  • Lead coordination body of integrated services to children and families of Kern County. Improved service integration is the primary goal of all KCNC's policy-related activities including:
      greyarrow: Administrators and Coordinators Team (ACT)
      greyarrow: Administrative Technical Assistance Committee (ATAC)
      greyarrow: Foster Youth Services Advisory Committee (FYSAC)
      greyarrow: Group Home Coalition
      greyarrow: Intensive Placement Services Team (IPST)
      greyarrow: Kern County Collaborative
      greyarrow: Kern County GIS Task Force
      greyarrow: Special Multidisciplinary Assessment and Referral Team (SMART)

    Additional Information

  • Our Mission
  • Historical Overview of KCNC
  • KCNC Governing Board
  • Evaluation of KCNC and Kern's Collaboratives & Family Resource Centers, Nov 2000 PDF:
  • Contact Information


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