Creative Solutions for Kids & Families Foster Family Agency

April showers bring May flowers—and CSKF is pleased to share highlights from our recent event, Planting Seeds for Healing: Ready, Set, Bloom. 🌱🌸
Building on the success of last year, this meaningful activity brought children and families together once again to explore the therapeutic benefits of planting, nurturing, and growth. Through hands-on engagement, participants experienced how simple, shared moments with nature can foster connection, resilience, and emotional well-being.
We are grateful to our dedicated behavioral health team and resource parents for creating an environment that supports healing and family connection. This event served as a timely reminder of the importance of mental wellness and community—especially as we recognize Mental Health Awareness Month. 💚

🌟 We’re Hiring! Join the CSKF Team 🌟

Creative Solutions for Kids & Families (CSKF) is excited to announce we have open positions and are looking for passionate, dedicated professionals to join our mission of empowering children and families.

📌 Now Hiring:

***Social Worker
***Clinical Therapist

✨ What We Offer:

Hybrid work flexibility
Opportunity to obtain required supervision hours
Supportive team environment
Meaningful work that makes an impact on children and families

📞 Interested? Contact Us!
We’d love to connect with you.
Please reach out to [email protected] or call (951) 900‑7379 for more details.

Today, our Behavioral Health clients and their caregivers enjoyed a creative and uplifting Junk Journal activity!

For those wondering, a Junk Journal is similar to a scrapbook, using magazines, stickers, textured paper, and other fun materials to hold memories, express feelings, or simply spark creativity.
There’s no right or wrong way to make one — everyone was encouraged to silence their “inner critic” and freely express themselves. Several participants even shared their journals with the group, with a beautiful common theme of music woven throughout their pages.

Our Behavioral Health team and caregivers helped create a supportive space where clients felt confident trying something new and connecting with others. We wrapped up the event with a delicious meal generously donated by Wild Wings Moreno Valley. Buffalo Wild Wings

It was truly heartwarming to see clients and caregivers bond, create, and enjoy this meaningful experience together.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this event a success! 💛📚🎨

🎄 Spreading Joy This Christmas 🎄

Yesterday, we had the privilege of delivering Christmas gifts to our kiddos. These moments remind us that the true value of the season isn’t in the presents themselves, but in the love, care, and sense of belonging we provide.

Every child deserves to feel special, supported, and cherished—not just during the holidays, but every day. At CSKF, we believe that investing in their well-being is the greatest gift of all.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Together, we are creating brighter futures and stronger families. 💙

🎄 Giving Recognition to the Work of our Resource Families in Building and Empowering Foster Youth 🎄

We want to take a moment to thank our incredible Resource Families for the love, care, and support they share in performing their services to the youth and children we serve.

Your commitment helps children and families thrive, and we are deeply appreciative of the role they perform in building resilience and productive children and youth. 💙

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We kicked off the session with a gentle reminder to “be still” and embrace calm during the busy holiday season.
✨ What we celebrated:

Welcoming newly approved families into our community
Fun gift card raffles to spread some cheer

📚 Training Focus:
Regulations Refresher covering:

Timely Reporting
Home & Pool Safety
Clothing and Other Personal Belongings

Thank you to everyone who joined us and continues to make a difference for children and families! 💙

Creative Solutions for Kids and Families - Behavioral Health would like to start featuring our Art Interventions of the Month. 🎨 This intervention of the month is DIY slime. Thank you to all our awesome therapists and behavioral specialists for having their own "slime party" with our youth and families. Our team had so much fun showing our kiddos and their families how to make their own DIY slime with items they may already have at home. This art intervention can help youth by providing a fun sensory activity, serving as a grounding tool for emotional regulation, improving focus and motor skills, and reducing stress and anxiety.

Special shoutout to our sponsors Enterprise Mobility🥰😍 who helped fund all the materials needed for our "Slime Party."

Stay tuned for next month’s Art Intervention! 💡

🎓✨ Congratulations to the CSKF Class of 2025! ✨🎓
We are incredibly proud of our graduates — your strength, perseverance, and accomplishments are truly inspiring. This is just the beginning, and we’re excited to see all that you’ll achieve!💙 A huge thank you to our amazing resource parents for your constant support and guidance.
💼 Shoutout to our dedicated Agency social workers who walk alongside our youth every step of the way.
Thank you to Wild Wings Moreno Valley those wings were a hit!💻 As a special send-off, each graduate received a brand-new laptop to help support their next chapter —thank you sponsor.
To our grads: We are so proud of you. Keep shining, keep striving, and know that CSKF will always be rooting for you.

🥰🎃 Happy Halloween from your CSKF Family! 🎃

The Halloween spirit is still going strong here, especially after an incredible Therapeutic Pumpkin Decorating event! Check out the creative pumpkins we decorated together.

Shoutout to our amazing behavioral health clinical therapists and behavioral health specialists for all your work, always. 🧡🎨✨