Family Support Services
Family Support Services (FSS) provides multi-cultural and multi-lingual supports for children/youth, adults, and families facing multiple barriers to greater self-sufficiency and independence. FSS works to strengthen families by addressing intergenerational conflicts, mental health issues, traumas, violence, acculturation, and job readiness training. Our services include individual therapy/ rehabilitation, play therapy, home visit, school-based counseling, parenting/play group, child-parent psychotherapy, family therapy, outreach, and case management. FSS is rooted in a strength-based empowerment model that draws on strong ethnic and cultural roots, family and community assets.
API Connections is a new project aimed at increasing access and reducing stigma to mental health services for underserved and unserved/emerging API communities in Alameda County. Together with CHAA (Community Health for Asian Americans) and a network of 10 partner agencies, ACMHS will provide community outreach, education, prevention and early intervention services to promote wellness among children, youth, adults and elderly.
CalWORKs Mental Health program at FSS provides comprehensive and culturally appropriate services to welfare-to-work recipients whose mental health issues prevent them from achieving their full potentials. Many of our clients are new immigrants and/or trauma survivors who face a multitude of challenges to survive and raise children in the US. Through individual and group counseling, case management, and medication management, our multilingual staff has helped numerous families in the past decade to gain stability, access necessary resources, strengthen family system, and overcome mental health barriers to live a healthy and productive life.
Caring Asian Family Alliance (CAFA) provides services to traumatized children under the age of 18. The type of traumas addressed include physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, maltreatment in community, domestic violence exposure, and parent substance abuse and endangering life style. Intervention services include individual/play therapy, crisis counseling, family session, home visit, case management , school based counseling in four elementary schools in Oakland, and linkage to the Victims of Crime Program.
Infant and Preschool Children services provide children age 0-6 with social, emotional and school readiness support through outreach, screening, education, assessment, early intervention, and treatment which include home based parent and child psychotherapy, weekly developmental playgroups with joint parenting classes, mental health consultations and interventions in preschool classrooms, family service coordination, and referrals to county and city services.
