EA Family Services is a private, nonprofit corporation providing a wide range of services to children and adolescents.

Our Mission: To enhance the well being of children, individuals, families and communities. Youth for Change is a non-profit, public benefit organization licensed by the State of California to provide comprehensive treatment, education and support services in our community. Established in 1991, the Youth for Change team has continually developed community partnerships for the purpose of championing the well-being of children and families. Our programs are dynamic and respond flexibly to community and family needs. Youth for Change began its work with three residential treatment facilities for 18 severely emotionally disturbed children. Our services now include: - 4 residential treatment facilities - a Foster Family Agency - a network of Family Resource Centers - “Wraparound Services” - an array of Foster Care services support for the Homeless Youth services - a full spectrum of mental health services The wide array of services we provide demonstrates our commitment to helping families become more resilient. By doing so, it is our intention to increase the health and security of our community’s children.

Work Training Center, Inc. was founded in 1960 to provide job and life skills support for adults with developmental disabilities. While our mission remains the same, the jobs we provide have us grow, from training four clients in a small workshop environment, to a $12 million corporation training 400 actively engaged client employees, and supported by 250 staff employees. Our six commercial divisions, which operate throughout Butte County, provide wood and soft goods manufacturing, light assembly and mailing services, recycling, janitorial, and landscape services. We grow much of our landscape stock on-site and offer them for sale in our nursery. Additionally, we offer retail experience in our two retail gift stores. Our own buses travel over 2,000 miles per day transporting our clients to their work. Certified in clinical and occupational social work, our staff continue to provide life skills support to over 300 clients in the form of group recreation therapy, independent living programs, and daytime respite care. Work Training Center is actively seeking highly qualified people to work alongside us.

Valley Oak Children’s Services is a dynamic organization focusing on healthy children, families, and a thriving community. We have a wide variety of services developed based on the needs of our community. Valley Oak Children’s Services was founded in 1980 as a private, non-profit organization, serving children and families in Butte County.

Vision & Mission At Butte County CAA we provide hope to people struggling with poverty to become more self-sustaining by meeting tangible needs in the areas of energy savings, affordable food, and housing. At Butte County CAA our mission is to serve as a catalyst to reduce poverty and its symptoms through: Providing quality services Developing resources Collaborating with others Advocating on behalf of the economically & socially disadvantaged Empowering individuals Improving the conditions in which people live, learn and work Vision We envision communities whose members feel secure and are self-sufficient. We have a federal mandate to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty by whatever means necessary in our community. Currently we do this by: Helping people on fixed incomes weatherize their homes so they can spend less on PG&E Managing the North State Food Bank, providing lower cost food options for fixed income families. Providing transitional housing to those who might otherwise end up homeless Providing affordable housing options to low income families Butte County is rich in natural beauty, recreation, education and small industry, but is economically depressed. The poverty rate in Butte County from 2009-2013 was 20.4% with a much higher rate in Oroville (38.6%) than Chico (25.9%) or Paradise (15.4%). While incomes have improved for many, a large and growing percentage of the population has not experienced income gains sufficient to escape poverty. Unemployment is typically higher than the State average, which was 15.9% in the same time period. Since 1967, Butte County CAA has been serving the needs of the region in alignment with the charter of the National Community Action Agencies overarching goal. The stated goal of all Community Action Agencies in the United States is defined as follows: To alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty by whatever means necessary in your community. Through the years Butte County CAA has provided a number of pro

Lassen Family Services, Inc. is local non-profit that is committed to ending abuse in our community through Prevention, Healing, Advocacy, Safety and Education, compassionate intervention, and effective partnerships with local community and social service agencies that will support the victim’s journey to empowerment.