What We Do

calm‘s continuum of care is guided by our mission to prevent childhood trauma, heal children and families, and build resilient communities.

Our Work

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Preventing Childhood Trauma

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Healing Children and Families

Preventing Childhood Trauma

Promoting safe and healthy child development

Prevention & Early Intervention

A continuum of services are delivered in the home, community setting, or clinic to support caregiver mental health, enhance attachment, increase positive parenting, and reduce the impact of toxic stress. These programs serve families with children prenatally through age nine.

By embedding services in natural settings where children learn and grow, we increase access to mental health services, overcome stigma, and build trauma-informed communities.

Programs:

  • Parent Child Treatment: Helping families strengthen relationships and manage concerns early for long-term well-being.
  • Home Visitation: Support and guidance for families in their natural environments, enhancing overall family well-being.
  • PMAD Treatment: Screening, preventive services, and therapy for caregivers experiencing Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder.
  • NICU Telehealth: Evidence-based tele-therapy supporting parents with infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
  • Parent Education & Support: Tools and guidance for caregivers to reduce stress and create a nurturing environment.
  • Growing Together: On-site consultation in early care settings to support healthy child development.
  • Community Training: Helping professionals, caregivers, and children build capacity & resiliency to prevent trauma.

Learn more about specific types of treatment below.

Learn how Home Visitation helped a mother and baby learn to bond at home after a challenging NICU stay.
Learn how treatment at calm helped a young child and his mother heal through grief and find renewed hope together.
Learn more about calm‘s partnerships in early childhood settings.

Healing Children and Families

Nurturing recovery and fostering resilience, safety, and stability

Trauma Treatment

calm supports children and families impacted by toxic stress and complex trauma, including abuse, neglect, multigenerational adversity, or violence within their family or community. Services focus on recovery, resilience, and stabilization through individual and family-centered treatment delivered in the home, clinic, or community-based settings. Many families served have histories involving substance abuse, criminal justice, or child welfare systems.

Programs:

  • Childhood Trauma Treatment: Individual and family therapy to support recovery after traumatic experiences.
  • Parent Treatment Program: Therapy for parents and caregivers experiencing mental health symptoms to support their capacity to parent.
  • Community Based Access: Evaluation, crisis support, and care coordination to quickly connect youth with the right care.
  • Intensive In-Home Therapy: Support in the home or community setting for children and youth with moderate to severe mental health needs.
  • Youth Resiliency Program: Services for children and teens referred by pediatricians to prevent concerns from escalating.
  • Intensive Family Services: Strengthening family functioning to prevent separation or promote reunification.
  • Sexual Assault Response Team: Sensitive, trauma-informed child forensic interviews for justice system advocacy.

Learn more about specific types of treatment below.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) helps clients reframe their trauma in an empowering way so they can move forward.

Evidence-based treatment at calm

calm offers a broad range of mental health services, using nearly 20 proven types of treatment tailored to each client’s needs. These are a few that we use often:

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – adults
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – children & teens
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Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
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Parent-Child Care (PC-CARE)
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Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
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Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
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State funding enabled calm to bring Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) to Santa Barbara County. Learn more about this service for children 0-5 years old and their caregivers.