About Us - The Crittenton Family of Agencies
Crittenton Center – Sioux City, Iowa
The Crittenton Center was founded in May 1895 as the Babies Home Society, a home for unwed mothers and their babies. The home provided medical care, adoption services, and life skills education. The Society was renamed the Florence Crittenton Home upon its affiliation with the national Florence Crittenton organization in 1904. Services provided at the Florence Crittenton Home from 1904 through the 1970s included maternity care and adoption, services for neglected children, residential maternity care, labor and delivery services, and nurses’ training. As programming expanded, services diversified, and to reflect the changing societal views and needs, the organization adopted the name Crittenton Center in 1992.
Crittenton Center is located in Sioux City, Iowa, where the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers converge. The two rivers form the borders for Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska in an area commonly referred to as the Tri-State Area. The Tri-State Area has a diverse workforce that supports meat processing, light manufacturing, telecommunications, and agricultural industries. The combined Tri-State population has grown to 110,000 residents, with minority populations increasing at a pace that exceeds Iowa’s growth rate.
Current programming addresses needs such as early childhood development and child care, prenatal and postpartum care for women and adolescents, adoptions, adoption searches, child and family assessment services, development of stronger, healthier family relationships, mentoring and redirecting at-risk youth, and providing a safe, stable environment for children experiencing crisis. Currently, the Crittenton Center reaches out to the Sioux City community through 15,000 contacts each year.
Programs and Services
Adoption—Comprehensive services, including special needs adoption, home studies, background reports for children and counseling for children and families.
Family Assessment—Evaluation of the strengths and needs of children and families.
Foster Care—Help for children and foster families in adjusting to a new environment while working toward reunification with biological families as appropriate.
Parent/Teen Survival Program—Intensive in-home therapy designed to meet the specific needs for a family in crisis.
Community Team Facilitation—Intense mediation, bringing the family together to create a support system to develop a plan for success.
Emergency Youth Shelter—Providing shelter, crisis intervention, family visitation, aftercare case coordination, medical care, and support services.
The Stella Sanford Child Development Center—Providing child development and early childhood education services to low-income families with children age 2-10.
Independent Living—Providing youth with the opportunity to learn to live independently with minimal supervision.
COAR (Crisis On-call Assessment and Response)—24-hour emergency on-call response to family crisis situations.
Project Life—Teaching independent-living skills to homeless youth “aging out” of foster care, juvenile probation, or emergency shelter at age 18.
TAPS (Transitions and Practical Solutions)—Intensive services in a "no eject, no reject" community setting for the purpose of keeping the family intact.
Maternal Health Care—Prenatal care for high-risk women and their babies.
HOPES-HFI (Healthy Opportunities for Parents to Experience Success/Healthy Families Iowa)–Providing parents with a continuum of preventative care services.
Westside Resource Center–Providing diverse resource and referral services to more than 5,000 residents each year.
For detailed information about this agency see:
www.crittentoncenter.org
