July 11, 2025
Join us in our Back-to-School Drive to help 250 children start the year strong and ready to learn.
Our Impact
July 10, 2025
Two free apps have been launched in California to support the mental health of families with children aged 0 to 25. Learn more about each of them.
Resources for Parents
July 9, 2025
Learn more about this longstanding program enabling families to collect a freshly cooked dinner so that they can enjoy an evening free from the stresses of meal preparation.
Our Impact
June 27, 2025
There are so many different opportunities for you to join us this summer. We’ve been working hard to create different workshops to suit your needs, so come and learn something new and build your community.
Resources for Parents
June 26, 2025
Each of the five Protective Factors has its own super power helping youth and families to be strong. Pixie Stardust shows kids that they can be rockstars when they talk about their feelings.
Resources for Parents
June 25, 2025
Please join us to celebrate and fundraise at our 28th Annual Blue Ribbon Celebration and help us build brighter futures for our families and community!
Events & Fundraising
June 24, 2025
Safe & Sound believes every family deserves safety, support, and the opportunity to build a brighter future for all children.
Our Impact
June 10, 2025
Following the successful conclusion of our three-year federally funded TASIE project, the Center for Youth Wellness team is working on a new one-year initiative in partnership with the University of California ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN).
Policy & Advocacy
June 5, 2025
A coalition of Bay Area service providers organized a Street Outreach Convening (SOC), bringing together youth with lived experience, street outreach teams, public agencies, community-based organizations (CBOs), and legal advocates to chart a path forward. Read the resulting recommendations.
Policy & Advocacy
June 4, 2025
The 5 Protective Factors are areas of family functioning that help support youth and families to be strong. Each Protective Factor has its own super power! Plantdad represents Parental Resilience - managing stress and using your strengths to get through challenges and hard times.
Resources for Parents
June 2, 2025
We hosted a live storytelling event with The Moth - relive the evening by watching the video of the stories shared.
Events & Fundraising | Our Impact
May 27, 2025
You might have heard Safe & Sound refer to ‘strengthening protective factors’ but what are they, and why do they matter?
Resources for Parents
May 15, 2025
The taskforce is a citywide collective representing more than 400 organizations that aims to strengthen the voice of San Francisco’s nonprofits serving youth, children and families. This advocacy work is an important part of Safe & Sound’s mission, seeking to advance laws, policies, and practices that put children and families first.
Policy & Advocacy
May 14, 2025
In this first Lunch & Learn of the 2025 series our panel of national and local experts discussed proven practices for building trust from within a community.
Events & Fundraising
May 12, 2025
Safe & Sound’s Center for Youth Wellness program has published a peer-reviewed article outlining the learnings from its Trauma-Informed ACEs Screening and Intervention Evaluation (TASIE) project.
Policy & Advocacy | Safe & Sound News
May 7, 2025
This program helps children discuss their feelings and teaches tools to cope with parental separation, while family members learn new ways to support their children and manage their new life circumstances.
Our Impact | Resources for Parents
May 1, 2025
The end of April marks the end of Child Abuse Prevention Month 2025. We hope that you were able to take part in a way that was meaningful to you. April may be over but our mission to create a world in which every child and family can thrive continues.
Safe & Sound News
April 24, 2025
Here are our picks for some resources you can use to help your child develop and learn, at all ages.
Resources for Parents
April 24, 2025
Local news station KRON4 has recognized Child Abuse Prevention Month with a segment featuring Safe & Sound’s CEO Dr. Pegah Faed and a client, Alexis, sharing her story.
Our Impact | Safe & Sound News
April 22, 2025
If a child has been sexually abused, they may display some specific traits. Learn what to look out for and what to do next.
Resources for Parents
April 17, 2025
Talk to your child about strangers and teach them simple rules for staying safe…
Resources for Parents
April 16, 2025
Last year, a local family faced an unimaginable challenge when Child Protective Services (CPS) removed their six-year-old son from their care due to a misunderstanding. With Safe & Sound’s support, the family have worked hard to regain stability and have been reunited with their child. Read their story.
Our Impact
April 15, 2025
Safe & Sound has launched our 2024 Economics of Child Abuse report and website, which provides a detailed analysis of the cost of child abuse and neglect across the state. According to our research, child abuse and neglect cost California over $16 billion in 2024.
Policy & Advocacy
April 14, 2025
Throughout this month, we invite you to join us in raising awareness and taking action. Explore our event calendar, filled with activities hosted by community partners across the region.
Policy & Advocacy | Resources for Parents
April 14, 2025
Here are some tips to help you parent positively.
Resources for Parents
April 9, 2025
Being a parent is the most important job you’ll ever have, but also one of the hardest. The next time everyday pressures build up so you feel like lashing out, try some of these.
Resources for Parents
April 8, 2025
Safe & Sound’s CEO, Dr. Pegah Faed, has co-written a piece with Robin Bowen, MHSA, Executive Director of the Child Parent Institute, published in the Marin Independent Journal. It explains how lived experience can offer unique insights that should be at the heart of welfare reform.
Policy & Advocacy
April 1, 2025
This is an opportunity to take stock and celebrate “blue ribbon” individuals, organizations, and communities who have done so much to prevent child abuse and neglect, and to look forward to what can still be achieved. Join us in raising awareness during April.
Events & Fundraising | Safe & Sound News
March 19, 2025
We are hosting a free event for families that includes fun games, activities and crafts. Come join us for an afternoon of fun that the whole family can enjoy!
Events & Fundraising | Resources for Parents
March 17, 2025
Pegah and the podcast host had a wide ranging discussion about Safe & Sound’s work and touched upon our priority activities for the coming years.
Safe & Sound News
March 14, 2025
While your kids are excited that it is a week of endless possibilities, we understand that as a parent - taking care of logistics can be hard. Here are some suggestions for you to try.
Resources for Parents
March 10, 2025
We’ve partnered with The Moth to offer an exclusive storytelling workshop and coaching opportunity for our clients and supporters to tell their own stories…
Safe & Sound News
February 27, 2025
Safe & Sound senior adviser and former CEO, Katie Albright, has co-authored a powerful piece in the latest issue of Family Justice Journal setting out a guide for building pathways for supporting children and families in their own communities.
Policy & Advocacy
February 25, 2025
Our Community Education Program teaches children how to keep themselves safe, how to respond to different types of pressure from others, and to talk to a trusted adult about their experiences.
Our Impact
February 13, 2025
Safe & Sound’s TALK Line provides 24/7 support for parents and caregivers in a moment of need. Just one call to the TALK Line can change a family's life forever. …
Our Impact
February 4, 2025
As lead of the SF Child Abuse Prevention Council and a tri-chair of the Family Violence Council, Safe & Sound brings its expertise in child abuse prevention to this broader mission.
Policy & Advocacy
January 7, 2025
We are pleased to share a new publication co-written by TONIC, a cross-sectional workgroup dedicated to preventing and treating toxic stress in San Francisco’s children. The paper demonstrates the value of TONIC’s approach of breaking down silos and bringing together leaders.
Policy & Advocacy
December 16, 2024
This annual initiative has been in effect for many years and grows year over year. Having received generous donations from individuals and businesses, we built a magical toy store within the Safe & Sound office in Bayview, with toys, books and clothes for children of different ages.
Our Impact
December 13, 2024
The San Francisco Family Services Alliance (FSA), supported by Safe & Sound, successfully co-hosted the Bay Area California Family Resource Association (CFRA) Town Hall Meeting to discuss local advocacy priorities and shape statewide policy efforts that help families and communities thrive.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
December 12, 2024
The San Francisco Examiner has published an article covering our critical work to support families, and how we hope to minimize their stress this holiday season…
Events & Fundraising | Safe & Sound News
December 10, 2024
Safe & Sound brought together 300 guests to the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco on Saturday 7 December for their annual Blue Ribbon Celebration event. Guests were invited to ‘light up the night’ to recognize the importance of Safe & Sound’s critical mission and raise funds so they can build and expand on their work in the community.
Events & Fundraising | Safe & Sound News
November 26, 2024
Together, we discussed how to effectively and systematically integrate the valuable insights of lived experts into program development and system reform, to bridge the gap between the intention and the impact of programs on the people they are designed to serve.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
November 7, 2024
When I first came to Safe & Sound, I felt overwhelmed as the sole provider for my family, caring for three children and my wife, who requires extra support. Safe & Sound provided me with the support I needed. Read Ramon’s story…
Our Impact
October 28, 2024
We brought together San Francisco’s top mayoral candidates to address critical issues affecting the city’s families, children, and youth, in a one-of-a kind event.
Policy & Advocacy
October 23, 2024
Having completed the 36-month Trauma-Informed ACEs Screening and Intervention Evaluation (TASIE) Project in May, the data has now been analyzed to understand lessons to be learned for future implementation.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
October 17, 2024
Safe & Sound was chosen as the first organization featured in Beyond the Fog’s series highlighting San Francisco nonprofits. Listen to the episode online.
Safe & Sound News
October 8, 2024
Read Sharon’s story to understand how parents can benefit from Safe & Sound’s services.
Our Impact
August 27, 2024
Kid’s Turn equips parents experiencing a relationship breakdown with the skills to collaborate and heal alongside their child.
Our Impact
August 14, 2024
In this second event in the 2024 series about moving from lived experience to lived expertise, we had a robust discussion about transforming systems and programs in partnership with individuals who have actual experience with how those systems and programs could work better for them, their families, and their communities.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
July 30, 2024
It is with heavy hearts that we share the sad news of the passing of one of Safe & Sound’s founding members, Maria Eitz. Maria was a remarkable person, truly giving and selfless, who dedicated her life to supporting families in our community.
Safe & Sound News
June 24, 2024
Spotlight on Neglect webinar goal was to raise awareness about the high correlation of poverty and allegations of neglect and the fact that providing families with the resources and supports they need can keep families safely together without unnecessary child welfare involvement.
Policy & Advocacy
June 10, 2024
Join Safe & Sound's annual Back-to-School Drive and help provide essential school supplies to children in need. Last year, we made a difference for Mia and her family, giving her the hope and confidence to start the school year on equal footing with her peers. Your support can bring smiles and hope to many more children this year.
Our Impact
May 22, 2024
Please join us to celebrate and fundraise for the families we serve at Safe & Sound! For more than 50 years, we have been at the forefront of providing programs that keep children safe and families strong. Support our mission at our 27th Annual “Blue Ribbon Celebration” and help us build brighter futures for our families and community!
Events & Fundraising
May 14, 2024
Safe & Sound is proud to announce the CYW’s successful completion of a groundbreaking program aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of ACEs screening…
Policy & Advocacy
April 18, 2024
We kicked off the year joined by Dr. Diana Ramos, Surgeon General of California and Jahmal Miller, Chief Administrative Officer of Mercy Medical Group to discuss trauma the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on brain development and toxic stress.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
February 23, 2024
The TALK Line is Safe & sound’s “front door” that many families use for our direct, supportive, wrap-around services…
Our Impact
December 29, 2023
Workers and volunteers with Safe and Sound — a San Francisco nonprofit focused on preventing and reducing the impact of childhood abuse, neglect and trauma throughout California — began the year with cause for celebration.
Our Impact
December 1, 2023
Joyous sounds fill Safe & Sound’s Therapeutic Children’s Playroom as children giggle and play. The Playroom, always buzzing with activities…
Our Impact
November 15, 2023
What does a community pathway really mean for families, and how can organizations listen to those families to understand what they want and need, and navigate the hurdles to providing that support?
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
August 24, 2023
In this discussion we considered how much progress has been made in just one year to shift the paradigm from mandated reporting of families to building community supports so families can safely stay together and thrive in their own communities.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
August 24, 2023
As a new school year approaches, the excitement of seeing friends and learning new things can quickly be erased by the stresses too often felt by families living in vulnerable situations…
Our Impact
July 26, 2023
We welcome you to the Safe & Sound speakeasy where you will sip on your Tom Collins and dance the night away to some 1920s sounds, while we highlight the impact Safe & Sound has had in the community for the past 50 years!
Events & Fundraising
July 26, 2023
In September 2022, Safe & Sound released an issue brief proposing recommendations that will build strong communities that help keep children safe and families together. Over the last year…
Policy & Advocacy
May 29, 2023
Over the past 15 years, Safe & Sound’s programs have directly served more than 150,000 individuals and contributed to a 67% reduction in the rate of child abuse in San Francisco.
Our Impact
May 12, 2023
I am honored and excited to connect with you as the new CEO of Safe & Sound. It’s been an extraordinary first few weeks filled with warm welcomes, thoughtful team discussions, inspiring connections with families, and a sneak peek into the incredible foundation this organization has built.
Safe & Sound News
April 26, 2023
In this webinar our panelists help deepen our understanding of the impact of child abuse, neglect and trauma on children and families, and bring data and lived experience to inform how we can help communities to create a network of supports to mitigate that impact.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
April 16, 2023
We are thrilled to officially welcome our new CEO, Dr. Pegah Faed, to the Safe & Sound community. Pegah has dedicated her career to lasting change for children and families, and we are energized to embark on the next chapter for Safe & Sound with her leadership.
Safe & Sound News
February 3, 2023
Letter from Sarah Whitelaw and Bill Barnes, Board Co-Chairs; and Doug Tom, Chair of the Search Committee and the CEO Success Committee Dear Safe &…
Safe & Sound News
November 21, 2022
After fleeing her home country because of domestic violence, Amanda found herself staying with one of her four children in an emergency shelter in San…
Our Impact
November 17, 2022
In this event we shone a light to see what it could look like to have a robust, co-ordinated community support system.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
September 20, 2022
Partnering with communities to create a child & family well-being system We are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine the child welfare…
Policy & Advocacy
August 25, 2022
In this session we explored the issues and the challenges involved in shifting our current reliance on mandated reporting of neglect and abuse, to a new paradigm based on the data and understanding of what families need.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
June 13, 2022
Letter from Katie Albright June 8, 2022 To my dear friends and partners of the Safe & Sound Community, I have some important news to share with…
Safe & Sound News
June 6, 2022
Seeking the Next Cohort of Pediatric Practices for Participation SAN FRANCISCO and EAST WINDSOR, N.J., June 6, 2022 – Safe & Sound’s Center for Youth…
Policy & Advocacy
May 9, 2022
This was the first session in our 2022 Lunch & Learn series about the facts and faces of prevention, designed to expand our collective understanding of what is considered child abuse and neglect, and the role of prevention strategies.
Events & Fundraising | Policy & Advocacy
