Center for Innovation and Resources, Inc.

11/17/2025

FREE office furniture! These items all need to find a new home ASAP!
Pickup in Moorpark (near Target).
If you or anyone you know might be interested, please share!
(cross posted, first come, first served)

10/27/2025

10/23/2025

If your organization is located in the Ventura County / Los Angeles County area, we have furniture available (FREE). Pick-up in Moorpark. Please reach out if you're interested.

09/18/2025

What a great day with the Child Abuse Prevention Councils in Sacramento! We can’t wait to unveil our statewide prevention message for child abuse prevention month. Stay tuned…Strategies Technical Assistance The Child Abuse Prevention Center Office of Child Abuse Prevention

09/16/2025

Awareness is only the beginning. Change happens when we take what we know and transform it into action.

Join us on Thursday, September 25, 2025, for Beyond Awareness: Turning Insight into Impact for Homeless and Foster Youth. This FREE training will help child and family-serving professionals move from conversation to transformation with trauma-informed, culturally responsive strategies that support homeless and foster youth. CEs are available.

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PT
Where: Online via Zoom
Presented by: Dr. Dretona T. Maddox, DSW, MSW, BSN, RN-PHN, LCSW, Executive Director, Purposely Chosen.
Register here: www.cirinc.org/events/event-pages/beyond-awareness.html

We hope to see you there!

07/21/2025

Calling all child abuse response professionals!

Join us for a FREE in-person MDT Training in Sacramento, CA on July 28, 2025 presented by Jessica Waterford, Rhia Grotke, and Lara Drino.

This dynamic training is designed for multidisciplinary teams working on child abuse investigations. Learn practical strategies, build cross-agency collaboration, and strengthen your response to child abuse cases.

POST, MCLE, and CE credits will be available.

Register now:
https://cirinc.org/events/event-pages/mdt-response-to-chlid-abuse-investigations.html

04/14/2025

The Center for Innovation and Resources, Inc. (CIR) and the Greater Bay Area Child Abuse Prevention Council Coalition invite you to our 2025 CATTA Statewide event, Strengthening Tribal Families Through Collaboration Across Systems on April 24th! Register for free today at: https://cirinc.org/events/event-pages/strengthening-tribal-families.html

This free two-part training session is centered on best practices for working with tribal systems in California for child and family wellbeing, and will feature panelists Season Goodpasture, Kimberly Cluff, and Twyla Dolan, MSW, as well as our presenter Lenny Hayes, MA. Attendees will also have the opportunity to enter our free book giveaway!

Follow this link to learn more: https://cirinc.org/events/event-pages/strengthening-tribal-families.html

02/28/2025

Dear Friends of CIR,

I have a bittersweet announcement to share with you all. I am embarking on a new opportunity, and today is my last day at CIR. I am fortunate to have worked alongside the most amazing and passionate professionals who remind me every day that there are good people in the world. They inspire me to focus on ways that we can stop abuse and trauma from occurring or re-occurring in most of the cases that we work with.

I am filled with so many emotions as I think about leaving my CIR family. However, I am most filled with gratitude to have met and formed such great relationships with our trainers and to the service providers who are dedicated to ending child abuse. Thank you for your dedication to the work, your passion is contagious and has truly inspired me to continue to seek new and innovative ways to provide training across the state. I feel honored to have worked alongside of you for these past 12 years.

Thank you for all that you do for children and families. Our world is a better place because of you.

All my best,
Crystal Cardenas

02/03/2025

We were honored to conduct the Forensic Interview Professionals Forum at the International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment in San Diego last week! Grateful for the opportunity to connect with so many passionate and dedicated professionals doing impactful work in this field. We got to reunite with some of our incredible trainers as well! 😊

01/23/2025

Exciting news!! 🎉 One of our Child Forensic Interview trainers, Monica Borunda .borunda.1 from the Mobile Child Interviewing Lab , and our Associate Director, Crystal Cardenas , will be presenting at the 40th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child & Family Maltreatment! 🙌

Don't miss out on the Forensic Interview Professionals Forum!!

01/08/2025

🎉 We officially wrapped up Season 2 of the RWYH podcast! 🎉

In the season finale, host Crystal Cardenas chats with producer Emma Zornes about the editing process and their favorite episodes with plenty of laughs.

Tune in and enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at the podcast to close out this incredible season and kick off 2025!

www.cirinc.org/podcast

01/06/2025

CIR is seeking passionate and dynamic presenters to join our team in empowering professionals who work with survivors of abuse. If you have practical experience, a strong educational background, and the ability to inspire others, we want to hear from you!

As a CIR presenter, you'll be part of a community dedicated to advancing trauma-informed care and supporting those who need it most.

👉 Submit your proposal today through our website at www.cirinc.org or use this link: https://cirinc.wufoo.com/forms/cir-call-for-presenters-2025/

This is your chance to share your expertise and create meaningful change! 🌟