Camarillo’s Interface Finds Offices to Fit Budget

Officials of Camarillo-based Interface Children, Family Services expect to save $15,000 to $20,000 annually on facilities costs after relocating some personnel and creating what they called a more streamlined program.

The organization, which provides intervention, education and shelter services for abused women and children, high-risk youth and families in crisis, expanded its Camarillo headquarters recently and consolidated a portion of its Thousand Oaks and Oxnard operations into the larger site.

Interface timed a move to smaller quarters in Oxnard with the leasing of 5,000 square feet of office space upstairs from its existing 8,500-square-foot headquarters on Del Norte Road in Camarillo.

“Over the years as we’ve expanded, we got to the point where the facility cost has become very heavy,” said Clint Lininger, chief financial officer of Interface.

“Nothing closed. We just reduced the size of office space we needed in Oxnard and reshuffled some people,” he said. “We decided to look at our people and see which ones physically needed to be in an [outlying] community as opposed to people who can be in one [central] location.”

Interface, which has about 160 employees, has offices in seven locations throughout the county and drop-in sites at a number of churches and community centers. Counseling and drop-in centers were unaffected, and no employees were let go due to the moves.

“This allows us better use of our capital,” Lininger said. “We can take the extra money that was spent on facilities and spend it on programs or getting people out in the field.”