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2019-2020 Annual Report
To supporT Those affecTed by and cAsA dE AmPARO’s
aT risk of child abuse and neglecT,
sNAPshOT fOR Through a range of programs and hisTORy
fy 2019-2020 services ThaT promoTe healing,
growTh, and healThy relaTionships.
ExEcUTivE diREcTOR
Tamara Fleck-Myers, LMFT Established in 1978, Casa de Amparo is APRiL 2012
recognized as a leader in treating and
LOcATiONs preventing child abuse and neglect in San Residential Services relocated from
Oceanside to the Casa Kids Campus
Diego County and beyond, with locations
San Marcos in Oceanside and San Marcos. The in San Marcos, California on 11.4
• Residential Services nonprofit organization annually serves acres of land, providing three cozy,
over 525 Casa Kids, from prenatal to 25
home-like cottages and expansive
• Family Visitation years old, as well as over 395 families outdoor areas for play.
Oceanside through integrated programs that promote
• New Directions healing, growth, and healthy relationships. APRiL 2014
• Family Visitation
AUgUsT 1978 Residential Services began housing
PROgRAms Casa de Amparo was founded pregnant and parenting girls in
foster care and their infants. Casa
• Residential Services by a small group of local women de Amparo is currently the only
concerned about domestic violence
• New Directions and the welfare of children. Led licensed residential treatment center
• Family Visitation by the Women’s Resource Center in San Diego County to provide these
services.
and supported by local police, this
cLiENTs sERvEd team pushed for a home for children JUNE 2016
• Casa Kids: 525 affected by or at risk of child abuse. It Opened new Counseling Wing and
was at this point that Casa de Amparo
• Families: 395 opened its doors. expanded the Pregnant and Parenting
Cottage at the Casa Kids Campus in
EmPLOyEEs AUgUsT 1980 San Marcos. The expansion allows
services for additional clients and new
• Full-Time: 124 Casa de Amparo expanded state-of-the-art therapeutic practices.
its services to include the Child
• Part-Time: 12 Development Center in Oceanside,
providing therapeutic childcare, mAy 2018
vOLUNTEERs preschool, and a family support Initiated the Transition Preperation
• Total Individuals: 216 center for children 18 months to 5 Program for Residential Services
years old who are at risk of abuse or
• Total Donated Hours: neglect. Casa de Amparo continued participants. This program allows
2,439 to operate the CDC for 38 years until progressing residents to start learning
the center closed in June 2018. all the elements of independent living.
JULy 2001 JANUARy 2019
Casa de Amparo began its Family
Visitation Program, which provides Residential Services received
a neutral, supervised setting for licensure as a Short-Term Residential
children who have been separated Therapeutic Program (STRTP). As
from their parents as a result of an STRTP, Residential Services
abuse or neglect, enabling regular continues to serve youth in foster care
visits, positive interactions, and with the highest level of behavioral
reunification, if appropriate. and mental health concerns who
require intensive trauma treatment in
JUNE 2008 a residential setting.
Casa de Amparo began serving
18 to 24 year old youth formerly
in foster care, providing fully
furnished apartments, career and
education planning, and life skills
training through the New Directions
transitional housing program. 3
