Child Parent Institute

Founded in 1978, the California Parenting Institute (CPI) has served thousands of Sonoma County families with parent education and mental health services to both prevent and treat child abuse. In that time, CPI has expanded enormously to meet an increasing demand for services to high-risk families. This expansion, which has included a merger in 2005 with the county’s leading provider of therapy to

child victims of abuse, has created the need for a central family resource center, the G.K. Hardt Center located in Southwest Santa Rosa, where clients can receive a broad continuum of services at a centrally-located, accessible facility. CPI has a well-respected tenure of success, developing and implementing programs and services available to all families. Additionally, CPI is dedicated to providing services that meet the needs of Sonoma County's diverse communities and has developed a staff and Board of Directors that mirror the demographics and unique characteristics of the region. CPI provides leadership in community education and advocacy for children by coordinating the Prevent Child Abuse-Sonoma County (PCA-SC) as well as serving on the Greater Bay Area Coalition of Child Abuse Prevention Councils, the Child Death Review Team, the Maternal Child Adolescent Health Committee, the Perinatal Mental Health Partnership, Family Violence Prevention Committee and the Santa Rosa Mayor’s Gang Task Force.