Child Abuse Listening Mediation
1236 Chapala St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-965-2376
CALM’s vision is a world where child abuse no longer exists.
CALM’s mission is to prevent, assess, and treat child abuse in Santa Barbara County by providing comprehensive, culturally competent services for children, adults and families.
In 1969, Claire Miles, a local nurse, learned that an overworked and emotionally stressed father had, in a moment of desperation, shaken his infant son to death. Claire took immediate action, put a phone in her living room, then took out classified ads in the Santa Barbara News-Press urging parents in need to call for help.
The phone rang almost 40 times that first month. She and her friends took turns answering the calls, with the hope of helping stressed parents before they hurt their children.
For the past 45 years, CALM has been on the cutting edge of the child abuse treatment and prevention field. CALM has led the nonprofit community in adopting evidence-based practices in our treatment and prevention models and using assessment and data to evaluate our effectiveness and improve our work.
