Family Developmental Center (FDC): Case Study
Family Developmental Center (FDC)
FDC began providing services in1971 as a national demonstration site for the Handicapped. FDC has continued as a model program and is the largest Infant/ Toddler child development program typically developing children with medically fragile and developmentally delayed or disabled children from low income at risk families. Family Developmental Center offers a developmental childcare and school-readiness program for infants, toddlers and preschool children (two weeks to five years old) and their families.
On-site Services
1. Child Development Specialist
2. The Registered Nurse supports families by:
Identifying and making referrals to local community resources
Assisting families in their search for affordable …show more content…
health insurance
Providing health educational materials, parenting education workshops
Coordinating on-site lead testing, dental screenings, vision screenings
3. Individual Speech and Occupational Therapy Services:
Ten to twenty children receive individual services on an out-patient basis. Parents attend sessions with their children, observe the session and receive recommendations to utilize at home.
4. Speech and Language Therapy:
Provides families and staff with information in regard to a child's language development and his/her ongoing assessment.
5. Mental Health Therapy and Consultation:
A Mental Health Therapist helps children deal with their emotions, trauma and/or behaviors. A Mental Health Therapist is available to provide onsite consultation, individual/group therapy, staff trainings and parent support groups as needed.
Hilltop Developmental Center Hilltop Developmental Center (HDC) combines child-development education with center-based developmental childcare services to children two weeks to eighteen months of age. Participants are the pregnant and parenting teens who are case-managed by FSA’s Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPP) and who are attending the SFUSD Hilltop School.
Farmer’s Market
In Partnership with Kaiser Permanente Community Program and the San Francisco Food Bank, they provide free fruits, vegetables, whole grains, meat and poultry items to all the enrolled children and families.
*On average, one hundred families benefit from the healthy items offered each week.
The Family Services Coordinator, the Registered Nurse and other community partners provide nutritional workshops and recipes to encourage families to make healthy meals at home.
Realizing Employment And Creating Hope (REACH) REACH program provides employment and educational services to at risk youth city wide specifically parenting teens. The program's primary academic partner is SFUSD's Hilltop High School, which focuses on getting pregnant and parenting teens on track to graduate. The REACH program offers intake and assessment services, job readiness workshops, career counseling, worksite training, internships/ placement services and stipends for incentives to promote retention.
Transitions San Francisco
A partnership with Goodwill and other community organizations, FSA provides mental health and substance abuse assessment and treatment to persons in this program who have a positive drug test in their first week.
Participants are all non-custodial parents referred to this pilot program by the Department of Child Support Services to develop skills by which they could become employable and sustain employment. Various ages served.
Moving Ahead Program for Youth (MAP for Youth)
The Moving Ahead Program for Youth (MAP for Youth) assists seriously mentally ill young (16-25) people in becoming independent and productive members of the community. MAP for Youth provides mental health and substance abuse treatment, physical health care, housing assistance, and vocational and educational support to San Francisco’s most seriously disturbed young people.
MAP for Youth is a collaborative, integrated partnership including Goodwill Industries, the Public Defender’s office, the District Attorney, Community Awareness and Treatment Services, and the Tom Waddell Health Center.
Deaf Community Counseling Services …show more content…
(DCCS)
DCCS has served the community for over 45 years. In July 2012, the program transitioned to its new home at Family Service Agency of San Francisco.In partnership with SF City and County, Department of Public Health (DPH) and Community Behavioral Health Services (CBHS), DCCS is dedicated to serving deaf and hard-of-hearing clients in San Francisco and Alameda Counties with culturally sensitive providers and all needed communication assistance, including staff fluent in ASL.
Services include mental health and substance abuse assessment and therapy, psychiatric and medication services, drop-in case management, and school partnerships to foster academic and social success for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Foster Grandparent Program
Limited-income, mobile seniors receive small stipends for providing support services for 20 hours a week to children with special needs. They serve in classrooms, pre-schools, and children's units in hospitals. They are charged with developing one-to-one consistent relationship with the children, by tutoring, mentoring, and providing emotional support. Stipends are tax-free and not counted as income for entitlement programs.
THE FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY
Family Service Agency of San Francisco was founded in 1889 and it is the oldest nonprofit charitable social-services provider in the City and County of San Francisco. FSA's mission is to respond to human needs with cutting edge social services and treatment that combine the best social science research with cultural sensitivity, a deep respect for the consumer, and a commitment to social justice and supportive communities. Not surprisingly, in a city filled with such astonishing cultural, economic, and ethnic diversity, FSA addresses a large and varied population. With 34 programs in 11 languages at sites throughout the area, our comprehensive array of services reaches across all racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic lines. More than 70% of our clients have annual incomes below the poverty level, about 65% of the clients are of ethnic or racial minorities, and over half are female. Our programs have been recognized as national models and have received the highest possible ratings from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health. At the heart of our work is the belief that individuals and families in crisis must have access to services and resources to help them build on their inherent strengths and develop self-sufficiency. With the support of our generous partners, Family Service Agency of San Francisco helps turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s solutions.
Jacqueline Hernandez
Inna Plamadeala
12/11/13
CDEV 67, FALL
Report – Family Service Agency of San Francisco
1.
The name of the agency is called the family service agency of San Francisco.
2. The address is 1010 Gough street San Francisco, CA 94109.
3. Phone: 415-474-7310 4. Web site: http://www.fsasf.org/svc_senior.html
5. Contact person: cspensley@fsasf.org
6. Days and hours: Monday thru Friday
7. The service available to children and families;
Foster Grandparent Program
Deaf Community Counseling Services
Moving Ahead Program for Youth (MAP for Youth)
Transitions San Francisco
Realizing Employment And Creating Hope (REACH)
Farmer’s Market
Hilltop Developmental Center
Family Developmental Center (FDC)
Early Childhood Mental Health
Child Care Food Program
Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPP)
Young Family Resource Center (YFRC)
8. This agency provides services to children, families, and seniors.
9. Families can obtain services if they are at risk, in crisis, or low-income. They can also receive services if they children are in the Family Developmental Center (FDC) or Hilltop Developmental Center
(HDC).
10. No they don’t have to be referred to this agency because it provides services to the public, but they do get referrals for services within their agency.
11. The services from the Family Services Agency are free to children and families.
12. Yes they provide services in 11 languages at sites throughout the area.
13. Yes this agency is open to the public.
14. They do have classes/workshop available and one example is that The Family Services Coordinator, the Registered Nurse and other community partners provide various health services, nutritional workshops and recipes to encourage families to make healthy meals at home and encourage their children to take part in this process.
15. Yes the childcare services are available to families as well as other services from this agency.
16. At the Family Developmental Center they have Wellness Center and they provide health related workshops and tips. On Thursdays they have free clothes, toys, and books for the families to take.
FDC began providing services in1971 as a national demonstration site for the Handicapped. FDC has continued as a model program and is the largest Infant/ Toddler child development program typically developing children with medically fragile and developmentally delayed or disabled children from low income at risk families. Family Developmental Center offers a developmental childcare and school-readiness program for infants, toddlers and preschool children (two weeks to five years old) and their families.
On-site Services
1. Child Development Specialist
2. The Registered Nurse supports families by:
Identifying and making referrals to local community resources
Assisting families in their search for affordable …show more content…
health insurance
Providing health educational materials, parenting education workshops
Coordinating on-site lead testing, dental screenings, vision screenings
3. Individual Speech and Occupational Therapy Services:
Ten to twenty children receive individual services on an out-patient basis. Parents attend sessions with their children, observe the session and receive recommendations to utilize at home.
4. Speech and Language Therapy:
Provides families and staff with information in regard to a child's language development and his/her ongoing assessment.
5. Mental Health Therapy and Consultation:
A Mental Health Therapist helps children deal with their emotions, trauma and/or behaviors. A Mental Health Therapist is available to provide onsite consultation, individual/group therapy, staff trainings and parent support groups as needed.
Hilltop Developmental Center Hilltop Developmental Center (HDC) combines child-development education with center-based developmental childcare services to children two weeks to eighteen months of age. Participants are the pregnant and parenting teens who are case-managed by FSA’s Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPP) and who are attending the SFUSD Hilltop School.
Farmer’s Market
In Partnership with Kaiser Permanente Community Program and the San Francisco Food Bank, they provide free fruits, vegetables, whole grains, meat and poultry items to all the enrolled children and families.
*On average, one hundred families benefit from the healthy items offered each week.
The Family Services Coordinator, the Registered Nurse and other community partners provide nutritional workshops and recipes to encourage families to make healthy meals at home.
Realizing Employment And Creating Hope (REACH) REACH program provides employment and educational services to at risk youth city wide specifically parenting teens. The program's primary academic partner is SFUSD's Hilltop High School, which focuses on getting pregnant and parenting teens on track to graduate. The REACH program offers intake and assessment services, job readiness workshops, career counseling, worksite training, internships/ placement services and stipends for incentives to promote retention.
Transitions San Francisco
A partnership with Goodwill and other community organizations, FSA provides mental health and substance abuse assessment and treatment to persons in this program who have a positive drug test in their first week.
Participants are all non-custodial parents referred to this pilot program by the Department of Child Support Services to develop skills by which they could become employable and sustain employment. Various ages served.
Moving Ahead Program for Youth (MAP for Youth)
The Moving Ahead Program for Youth (MAP for Youth) assists seriously mentally ill young (16-25) people in becoming independent and productive members of the community. MAP for Youth provides mental health and substance abuse treatment, physical health care, housing assistance, and vocational and educational support to San Francisco’s most seriously disturbed young people.
MAP for Youth is a collaborative, integrated partnership including Goodwill Industries, the Public Defender’s office, the District Attorney, Community Awareness and Treatment Services, and the Tom Waddell Health Center.
Deaf Community Counseling Services …show more content…
(DCCS)
DCCS has served the community for over 45 years. In July 2012, the program transitioned to its new home at Family Service Agency of San Francisco.In partnership with SF City and County, Department of Public Health (DPH) and Community Behavioral Health Services (CBHS), DCCS is dedicated to serving deaf and hard-of-hearing clients in San Francisco and Alameda Counties with culturally sensitive providers and all needed communication assistance, including staff fluent in ASL.
Services include mental health and substance abuse assessment and therapy, psychiatric and medication services, drop-in case management, and school partnerships to foster academic and social success for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Foster Grandparent Program
Limited-income, mobile seniors receive small stipends for providing support services for 20 hours a week to children with special needs. They serve in classrooms, pre-schools, and children's units in hospitals. They are charged with developing one-to-one consistent relationship with the children, by tutoring, mentoring, and providing emotional support. Stipends are tax-free and not counted as income for entitlement programs.
THE FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY
Family Service Agency of San Francisco was founded in 1889 and it is the oldest nonprofit charitable social-services provider in the City and County of San Francisco. FSA's mission is to respond to human needs with cutting edge social services and treatment that combine the best social science research with cultural sensitivity, a deep respect for the consumer, and a commitment to social justice and supportive communities. Not surprisingly, in a city filled with such astonishing cultural, economic, and ethnic diversity, FSA addresses a large and varied population. With 34 programs in 11 languages at sites throughout the area, our comprehensive array of services reaches across all racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic lines. More than 70% of our clients have annual incomes below the poverty level, about 65% of the clients are of ethnic or racial minorities, and over half are female. Our programs have been recognized as national models and have received the highest possible ratings from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health. At the heart of our work is the belief that individuals and families in crisis must have access to services and resources to help them build on their inherent strengths and develop self-sufficiency. With the support of our generous partners, Family Service Agency of San Francisco helps turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s solutions.
Jacqueline Hernandez
Inna Plamadeala
12/11/13
CDEV 67, FALL
Report – Family Service Agency of San Francisco
1.
The name of the agency is called the family service agency of San Francisco.
2. The address is 1010 Gough street San Francisco, CA 94109.
3. Phone: 415-474-7310 4. Web site: http://www.fsasf.org/svc_senior.html
5. Contact person: cspensley@fsasf.org
6. Days and hours: Monday thru Friday
7. The service available to children and families;
Foster Grandparent Program
Deaf Community Counseling Services
Moving Ahead Program for Youth (MAP for Youth)
Transitions San Francisco
Realizing Employment And Creating Hope (REACH)
Farmer’s Market
Hilltop Developmental Center
Family Developmental Center (FDC)
Early Childhood Mental Health
Child Care Food Program
Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPP)
Young Family Resource Center (YFRC)
8. This agency provides services to children, families, and seniors.
9. Families can obtain services if they are at risk, in crisis, or low-income. They can also receive services if they children are in the Family Developmental Center (FDC) or Hilltop Developmental Center
(HDC).
10. No they don’t have to be referred to this agency because it provides services to the public, but they do get referrals for services within their agency.
11. The services from the Family Services Agency are free to children and families.
12. Yes they provide services in 11 languages at sites throughout the area.
13. Yes this agency is open to the public.
14. They do have classes/workshop available and one example is that The Family Services Coordinator, the Registered Nurse and other community partners provide various health services, nutritional workshops and recipes to encourage families to make healthy meals at home and encourage their children to take part in this process.
15. Yes the childcare services are available to families as well as other services from this agency.
16. At the Family Developmental Center they have Wellness Center and they provide health related workshops and tips. On Thursdays they have free clothes, toys, and books for the families to take.