Interface takes a family-systems and community-wide approach to intervention and prevention with a range of programs encompassing emergency and crisis response, safe shelter, mental health, education, family resources, and homelessness intervention and prevention.
Learn more about our departments and programs below.
My Body Belongs To Me
A personal safety and child abuse prevention program for preschool and elementary school-aged children and their families. The program educates and empowers children in a non-threatening way so they may be better equipped to avoid abuse.
Teen Dating Violence Prevention
Provides school-based prevention programming to high school students throughout Ventura County. Presentation topics include discussions of the various forms of dating violence, including emotional, verbal, digital, and physical abuse, and encourages teens to develop healthy communication skills and relationships.
Family Violence Response Team
Advocates staff the hotline 24/7 and can provide: crisis counseling, safety planning, referrals, restraining order assistance, and in-person advocate response for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. HOTLINE: 1.800.636.6738.
Safe Journey Transitional Shelter
Transitional, supportive living for survivors of domestic violence who have completed a stay in an emergency shelter. Clients can receive case management and counseling services which aim to assist them in the healing process and encourage growth, independence, and self-sufficiency.
Safe Haven Emergency Shelter
30-day emergency shelter for survivors fleeing domestic violence. Clients who enter our shelter can receive case management, counseling, restraining order assistance, advocacy, and supportive services
Parenting, Art & Support Groups
Free, safe, and supportive groups for survivors and families impacted by domestic violence. Groups include: Triple P, an evidence-based parenting group focused on preventing and addressing behavioral and emotional challenges in children 0-12; A Window Between Worlds, an art-based program centered on trauma-informed approaches to healing and recovery; Support Group, a weekly ongoing psychoeducational group for survivors. Call the 24/7 hotline for additional information 1.800.636.6738.
Community Awareness & Outreach
Community awareness and outreach are provided through presentations, informational booths and resources free of charge on topics related to family violence prevention. Our outreach staff and volunteers speak at schools/universities, faith centers, places of employment, medical facilities, law enforcement agencies, health fairs and community events.
Ventura County Coalition Against Human Trafficking
Interface belongs to a coalition of local agencies and organizations partnering to prevent, prosecute, properly identify victims, and provide victim services to combat the issue of trafficking locally.
Crisis Response
Immediate, in-person response is available when requested by law enforcement or medical providers, to emotionally support adult survivors of sex and/or labor trafficking (both U.S. born and foreign nationals).
Community-Based Advocacy
In-person support and advocacy to help each survivor establish safety, work towards healing from their trauma and achieving self-sufficiency.
Emergency Shelter
A trauma-informed, and confidential shelter for adult survivors of trafficking.
Training and Outreach
Training and technical assistance is available for medical professionals, law enforcement, hospitality providers, and other community agencies.
Triple P: Positive Parenting Program
Evidence-based model for parents of children up to age 12 to enhance parenting skills with challenging child behaviors and improve parent/child relationship. Individual, group, and seminar interventions are offered.
Trauma Responsive Treatment
Specialty mental health services focused on trauma recovery are provided to individuals over the age of 18 who have experienced domestic violence or human trafficking.
Child Abuse Treatment (CHAT)
Therapeutic services are provided to the child up to age 18 focused on recovery from victimization and trauma.
Program to Evaluate and Treat Sexual Abuse (PETSA)
An individual, family, and group treatment model which includes a comprehensive trauma assessment and treatment. Services focus on the child victim of sexual abuse and their non-offending family members.
Child & Youth Emotional Wellness (Infancy-21 years)
Individual and family therapy provided at Interface Community Service Sites throughout Ventura county, schools, and telehealth to improve social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral health.
Youth Justice Prevention and Early Intervention Services
LIFT (Lead. Inspire. Focus. Transform.)
The Youth LIFT Partnership program is aimed at diverting youth from initial or subsequent contact with the juvenile justice system using approaches that are evidence-based, culturally relevant, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate. This program will be used to target underserved communities in the Oxnard area in partnership with the Oxnard Police Department. The goal of the project is to provide diversion and alternative-sanction programs, offer mentoring, mental health services, and case management to support linkage to community resources, academic- and vocational-education services, and behavioral health services.
Early Intervention Diversion (EID)
Interface youth diversion programs are designed to target youth referred by the Ventura County Probation Agency who have received a first-time and/or low-level citation. Staff conduct weekly classes on violence and graffiti prevention, substance abuse, and petty theft with the goal of diverting youth from further juvenile justice involvement. Services include Screening, Intake, Assessment, Case Management- linkage and coordination of care support, and youth-parent education groups.
Transforming Harm to Healing (H2H)
The Transforming Harm to Healing project will provide restorative justice conferencing for first-time and repeat offending youth who commit an eligible misdemeanor or felony offense, as well as youth and transitional age youth facing probation violations through court. Interface will leverage current services and experience to provide Restorative Justice conferencing that a) reduces the number of youths entering the juvenile justice system, b) reduces racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system, and c) addresses the underlying causes of youth misconduct by removing barriers to accessing services.
Reducing Risk for Girls
The Reducing Risk for Girls project in partnership with Ventura County Probation Agency (VCPA), is aimed at providing prevention and early intervention services to girls confined in the Ventura County Juvenile Detention Facility. The juvenile justice system has typically overlooked the unique needs of girls, which retriggers the trauma that prompted choices that led to their incarceration, including family dysfunction, negative thought patterns, substance abuse, sexual exploitation, and/or human trafficking. The project goal is to reduce recidivism through the reduction of risk factors (anger management, mindful management of addiction, avoidance of future exploitation) and the promotion of protective factors (e.g., positive peer group, positive/resilient temperament, problem-solving skills) proven effective for girls involved in the juvenile justice system.
Second Chances Youth Reentry Project
The “Second Chances” Community-Based Youth Reentry Project in partnership with Ventura County Probation Agency (VCPA), proposes a reduction in the number of rearrests among Ventura County at-risk youth. The project fills a critical need for high-quality anti-recidivism programming occurring in the community and in juvenile facilities using an integrated community-based set of services and suite of evidence-based practices. Interface seeks to change the life trajectory for the youth served by Second Chances, assist in the transition youth make from juvenile residential facilities to the community so that the transition is successful and promotes public safety, learn from a rigorous evaluation of their outcomes, and strengthen the community.
Adult Justice-Involved Services
Medically Assisted Treatment Services
Interface Medically Assisted Treatment program provides high-quality, evidence-based, culturally responsive programming to serve high- risk adults and improve overall health outcomes while improving community safety. This program is a collaboration between Interface and the Ventura County Probation Agency. Services include Screening, Intake, Assessment, Case Management, and Transportation. Additional services may include Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), Job Readiness, Seeking Safety, and Staying Quit.
The CORE Connection Partnership
The Core Connection Partnership is a collaborative of community-based agencies with the shared goal of providing necessary and appropriate services to the AB109 population in Ventura County. The mission of the Core Connection Partnership is to remove barriers, increase awareness, and provide community supports for individuals who have been incarcerated to promote successful reintegration and reduce recidivism.
Through a contract with the Ventura County Probation Agency, Interface’s Core Team acts as the “backbone” in the collaborative. The Core Team at Interface Children & Family Services administers contracts with several community-based agencies in Ventura County to provide services to AB109 clients. Services consist of evidence-based practices including Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), field-based Case Management, Family Services, and Parenting, Trauma Treatment, Sober Living beds, and Restorative Justice Groups.
Interface Reentry Services
Interface Reentry Services are provided to Probation-referred adult clients county-wide. This program is the first Pay for Success project in Ventura and is one of three Pay for Success projects supported by the California Board of State and Community Corrections. This project is designed with the objectives of promoting family stability and economic opportunity for those on formal probation while improving public safety and reducing recidivism. Many services are available to both client and immediate family members. Individuals gain access to services that support them in leading healthy and productive lives. All services are free of charge, individualized to meet the client’s needs, and offered at convenient locations throughout Ventura County. (Closing Out Winter 2022)
Serving all of Ventura County (All demographics)
The Medi-Cal Project
Interface Medi-Cal program is a new service offered to all Ventura County residents in need of health care benefits. The program is designed to personally assist Ventura County residents through the Medi-Cal enrollment process through the partnership with the Human Services Agency. All Medi-Cal Navigators are bilingual, and our phone lines are open Monday – Friday from 9am to 5pm. Services include Screening, Intake, Medi-Cal Resource and Assistance Services, and Case Management.
To connect with a Navigator for assistance please call: 1-833-607-2650
Youth Shelter
Temporary shelter for transitional aged youth 12-17 who have been referred and are or at-risk of experiencing homelessness.
Street Outreach Program
SOP works with runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth in Ventura County ages 12-24.
Ventura County Crisis Team
In case of a mental health emergency – a suicidal child or teen; a child or teen who wants to hurt him/herself or hurt others; OR an out of control child or teen. Services are connected via Youth Outreach Line for help with shelter/housing assessments, family mediation, emancipation information, case management, and other youth-specific resource information.
Youth Outreach Line
Interface’s Youth Outreach Line connects youth and teens to services and help with shelter/housing assessments, family mediation, emancipation information, case management, and other youth-specific resource information.
211 Information & Assistance
211 Ventura County is a comprehensive information and referral service for Ventura County that connects over 30,000 Ventura County callers and texters each year to information about health and human services available to them.
Visit 211ventura.org for support online or call 211. Our staff is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide service in more than 150 languages.
