Special Outreach

Individuals and families are referred to CIP from multiple community sources who rely on the agency to provide the mental health component in the service continuum for their low-income and at-risk clients. These include Marin Community Clinic, Marin Maternity Services, Marin Suicide Prevention, Marin Abused Women's Services, and other social service agencies. Referrals come from a variety of public and private sources, including Child Protective Services, Marin public schools, hospital crisis centers, and Community Mental Health. In turn, CIP staff provide needed referrals to help clients obtain the additional services they need, such as affordable medical treatment, child care, safe housing, vocational training, education, and so forth.

On-Site

• Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse Program
• Adult Therapy Groups
• Canal Alliance Youth Counseling
• Couples Program
• Domestic Violence Treatment and Prevention Program
• Eating Disorders Therapy Program
• Elders Program
• Helen Vine Detox Project
• Help for Disadvantaged Families at Risk
• MYC Afterschool Program
• Psychological Testing
• Support for Single Parents and Their Children

Off-Site

• EmBODY Power Program
• Homeward Bound of Marin Therapy Groups
• Ritter House Program
• The Schools Project for Disadvantaged Students at Risk

  Often access to critical mental health services is limited or unavailable to very low income people, because of prohibitive costs. CIP has leveled the playing field so that homeless people can also benefit from its healing resources.

  - Mary Kay Sweeney, Executive Director, Homeward Bound