INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY THERAPY
Clinicians provide both short and long-term care for individual and family systems through the utilization of Individual, conjoint and family counseling services. The ultimate objective of counseling services is to prevent the occurrence or re-occurrence of child maltreatment or domestic violence events, to prevent unnecessary separation of children from their families and to ensure permanency by maintaining or reuniting children with their parents, adoptive parents, relative caregivers or legal guardians.
GROUP COUNSELING
FSOD clinicians offer a number of group counseling sessions, some of which meet a need to provide counseling to individuals appointed by the courts to access such services. All groups are offered in both English & Spanish.
ANGER MANAGEMENT / DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (AM / DV)
The primary goal of the AM/DV education program is to engage and partner with parents/caretakers to teach the skills necessary to significantly minimize the occurrence/re-occurrence of child maltreatment and neglect within families. Families who understand, nurture and support healthy psycho-social development and actively attend to the physical and emotional and psycho-social needs of individual family members are better able to cope with the stressors of daily living.
CHILD ABUSE
It is understood that individuals often parent their own children in the way they themselves were parented. FSOD understands when there is family conflict, substance abuse, violence, or when parents do not have an appropriate understanding of their children’s emotional, cognitive or physical development needs, the children often suffer. This program teaches parents how to deal with conflict and stressors in daily life and works on ways to resolve conflict in a healthy way.
PARENTING
The curriculum provides parents with opportunities to develop and practice parenting strategies and techniques that will enhance their ability to nurture and support healthy psycho-social development in their children. FSOD’s program design allows parents the opportunity to meet with the group facilitator for individualized assistance in developing specific parenting strategies or intervention programs for specific behavioral problems.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVOCACY / Calwork's
The program provides domestic abuse advocacy intervention services to CalWORK's clients, referred by DPSS and/or self referred CalWORK's clients. FSOD staff works with the client to determine specific services necessary to assist the client in escaping or stopping further abuse. Services include but are not limited to: individual and group counseling; parenting skills and independent living skills training; temporary restraining orders as necessary for safety; access to a 45-day emergency shelter for women and children based on need and availability.
Our approach takes into account the unique characteristics of the individual involved by taking into consideration culture, language, gender, age and family needs.
FOOD NOW INC.
Distributes nutritional food three days a week, 52 weeks a year to an average of 450 qualified low income families a week. The volunteers and staff rely on donations to ensure that families, children and the homeless receive meals. It is the mission of Food Now to fight food insecurity and alleviate hunger in the community by providing healthy and nutritious food for people in need. Providing families; with a healthy educational nutritional support for families with infants and children. They have been able to help the ever growing number of people who are in need. Each year we continue to advance our mission in feeding the hungry.
