CSP was established in 1972 as a field study project for students at the University of California Irvine, providing diversion counseling for delinquent youth and their families at the Costa Mesa Police Department. Since that time CSP has grown dramatically in size and scope and has designed and implemented some of the most respected prevention and intervention programs in Southern California. CSP, which now celebrates over 30 years of providing services in Orange County, is comprised of six model programs assisting over 80,000 persons a year–abused children, victims of crime, struggling families, acting out adolescents, and people in need of mediation services.