Moms In Motion : Connecting Moms Through Fitness

Mission & Cause

Taken from the Casa Pacifica website
Casa Pacifica opened its doors to abused, neglected and severely emotionally disturbed children in the summer of 1994. During the first two years of operation, efforts focused on program implementation and on sorting out the roles of all participants in this unique public/private partnership. In 1996 the non-public school opened its doors to day students- most of whom were graduates of the residential treatment program but who still required a self-contained, special education school environment. In 1998 the "day school" program was expanded to incorporate an after-school component, in-home services, and family interventions including a parent support group. Meanwhile, the crisis care program (emergency shelter) was reconfigured to better segregate and supervise children by gender and age. Capital construction costs to accomplish this goal were almost $1 million. Today, Casa Pacifica's programs and services continue to expand. Children in the residential treatment program are placed by several Southern California counties, day students come from school districts throughout Ventura County, we have opened offices in two locations in Santa Barbara County to provide in-home therapeutic behavioral services, community based services combined now comprise one-third of Casa Pacifica's annual budget, and we have become a training center for professionals from around the region who wish to keep abreast of the latest interventions and therapeutic techniques.

Help

We will be donating our time to have a fun physical activity day with the children. Time and date TBA.