All children and teens deserve to be safe, healthy and cared for.

To ensure the safety and well-being of all Sonoma County children and teens, the Family, Youth and Children's Division (FYC) partners with local families, community members and professionals who work with youth.

Programs and Services

• Child Protection Services staff investigate reports from the community of child abuse, neglect or abandonment.
• Day or night, through the 24-hour Child Protection hotline, staff respond to emergency reports and community concerns about a child's well-being at home.
• When needed to keep a child safe, we move the child into emergency foster care with trained and licensed foster parents, the emergency shelter at Valley of the Moon Children's Home or a group home.
• To provide a safe haven for children, FYC staff recruit, train and support local adults and families who open their hearts and homes to become foster parents.
• We also work with other local foster care agencies who recruit, train and support foster parents.
• A child or teen who cannot be returned home safely may be placed with foster parents for guardianship or adoption.
• Trainers teach community members and mandated reporters in how to prevent and report concerns about a child or youth.

Due to the pandemic, the lobby of the Family, Youth and Children’s Division, 1202 Apollo Way, Santa Rosa, is open 8 a.m.-noon, Monday-Friday. Entry is limited to three visitors at a time for in-person reporting of child abuse or neglect or to pick-up or drop-off paperwork for social workers. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work together to keep our communities healthy and safe.

2755 Mendocino Avenue, Suite 204, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
(707) 565-6360 • FAX (707) 565-8621

P.O. Box 1539, Santa Rosa, CA 95402-1539
(707) 565-6350 • FAX (707) 565-6352

Children who are no longer safe with their parents or guardians and need immediate, temporary shelter may stay at the Valley of the Moon Children's Home until a community foster home is arranged. Staffed by caring child welfare professionals, the shelter is a peaceful, stable, supportive and nurturing group environment where children receive medical, dental and mental health care and other healing services.

Volunteers Needed
Help children and youth with homework, lead art, exercise, garden or music programs, sort donated clothes, toys and other items for foster children and youth, or plan and organize special events. Contact the non-profit Valley of the Moon Children's Foundation or email Children's Home staff.

PO Box 11671, Santa Rosa, CA 95406
vomchildrensfoundation.org

This private, nonprofit, community foundation generously raises funds to support foster children and foster families in Sonoma County. In partnership with the Board of Supervisors and the community, the Foundation led the capital campaign to build the emergency shelter, the Valley of the Moon Children's Home.

Charitable donations and volunteers support:

• the needs of children and teens at Valley of the Moon Children's Home,
• children and teens in community foster care homes and their foster parents,
• emancipated foster children, including help with education, housing and employment guidance,
• and community efforts to prevent child abuse.