ADVOCACY & LEGAL
EMPOWER YOLO
SEXUAL ASSAULT HOTLINE & SHELTER
24-hour crisis intervention, emergency shelter, confidential counseling, training, legal assistance, and other services for individuals and families affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and child abuse and resource centers for community services to improve the health, social, educational and economic outcomes.
Main line:
(530) 661-6339
Crisis line:
(530) 662-1133
175 Walnut St
Woodland, CA 95695
LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN SERVICES
(916) 376-8910
Ombudsman Services provides advocacy services to residents in long-term care facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities and Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly). Ombudsmen identify, receive, investigate, and resolve problems on behalf of residents. The ombudsman program also provides community education and training, consultations and information, maintains a presence in long-term care facilities, and witnesses advanced health care directives for residents who reside in Skilled Nursing Facilities.
401 El Camino Ave.
Sacramento, CA 95815
PUBLIC GUARDIAN
(530) 666-8100
Public Guardian is the court-appointed conservator for adults who are gravely disabled due to a mental illness and disable adults with deficits of mental functioning who cannot provide for their personal care needs for physical health, medical care, food, clothing, shelter or cannot resist undue influence. The Public Guardian is appointed conservator when there are no reasonable alternatives to conservatorship and no family or friends willing and able to serve as the conservator. The Public Guardian acts in the conservatee’s best interest, arranges medical/psychiatric care, housing/placement and other services, manages the conservatee’s benefits and assets, and is the substituted decision maker for most aspects of the conservatee’s life.
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California Courts Self Help/Conservatorship page: http://www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp-conservatorship.htm and Handbook for Conservators: http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/handbook.pdf
25 N. Cottonwood St.
Woodland, CA 95695
YOLO COUNTY ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Yolo County Adult Protective Services provides resources, information and referral services to the elderly (65 and older) and to dependent adults (18- 64) who are suffering or at risk of abuse, exploitation or self-neglect. Adult Protective Services investigates allegations of abuse and links clients to the appropriate resources.
(530) 661-2727
25 N Cottonwood St
Woodland, CA 95695