Davis Street Family Resource Center
The Mission of the Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC) is to help people with low income of the Eden area and its surrounding communities improve their quality of life through short and long-term assistance.
We envision a community that comes together to support our efforts to help disenfranchised people with services designed to help improve their quality of life.
Davis Street’s goal is to support the entire family unit. DSFRC provides an extended family to grow with and a community to draw strength from. Everyone-from children to seniors –is given the resources they need to realize their own power and potential.
Description:
Our services include:
Family Support Services
Moving out of poverty happens one day at a time. The safety net that our Family Resource Center programs offer help with this transition to self-sufficiency by giving families individualized and culturally competent help in critical areas. Counseling, support groups, nutrition and wellness workshops, case management, parenting classes and job skills training and placement, childcare, food, clothing are examples of the comprehensive services that help our clients navigate on their journey of life.
Health - Medical Care
Provides acute medical care and preventative services for uninsured and underinsured people on site and through referral to specialists. Offers physical therapy to uninsured clients through the partnership with Kaiser Permanente. Partners with a local medical provider to offer drop in services to Medi-cal eligible people. Enrolls eligible clients in Healthy Families and Healthy Start programs. Offers immunization clinics and services to people with special needs. Coming this winter: Adult Dental care
Mental Health Services
Mental Health: Provides group, individual, family and teen counseling services to low income and medically eligible clients, offers substance abuse education, school based counseling at 10 area schools and mental health consultation in the child care centers operated by DSFRC, and Psychological Assessment to Children and Adults.
Children’s Services
Alternative Payment Program provides quality parental choice subsidized childcare to working parents. We offer a Voucher-subsidy for eligible Cal works and low-income families caring for children 0-10 years of age. Our Center Based Childcare – Provides quality, affordable childcare at four licensed sites. Our Licensed Childcare – at 4 local centers, after school care and drop in childcare. DSFRC also provides children's health, medical & nutritional services and anti-violence prevention programs.
Alternative Payment
The Davis Street Family Resource Center also administers an Alternative Payment Program, which is a parental choice child care voucher program for eligible families with children age 0 thru 12 living in the Eden area (San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley and Ashland). Family eligibility is based on income and need. Families are entitled to choose either traditional or non-traditional services (including evening and weekend care) in their choice of childcare environment, including center-based care, family day care homes and license exempt care.
CalWORKS Child Care Stage II and III
DSFRC administers child care for CalWORKS participants with children age 0 thru 12 who have been transferred from Stage 1 and are either working or in job training. Stage II participants may or may not still be receiving cash aid when they are transferred to Stage II. CalWORKS Stage II participants remain eligible for Stage II until they have been discontinued from cash aid for 24 months; these participants are then transferred to the DSFRC Stage III program. CaIWORKS Stage III participants are eligible for Stage III child care as long as they remain income eligible and have an established need for child care.
Child Care Payments Assistance
Families interested in applying for child care payment assistance for either the Alternative Payment Program or one of the Child Care Center Programs may contact the Davis Street Family Resource Center administrative offices at (510) 347-4620 for more information. CaIWORKS Stage II and III child care is offered to families transitioning from the Stage 1 child care program.
Employment Training
Provides comprehensive services such as computer training, resume writing, interview skills, job placement, and dress for success and remedial education/GED.
Life Skills
Provide workshops and classes to include budgeting, IDA/EITC (Individual Development Account/Earned Income Tax Credit) program to working poor, domestic violence prevention, financial literacy trainings, time management, work place ethics/practices and parenting education.
Transportation
Provides bus passes and low cost basic car repairs by local merchants. Secure funding to bring the San Leandro LINKS project ½ mile south to include our address, thereby ensuring that our clients have access to free transportation to and from San Leandro Bart.
Basic Needs
Provides food and clothing to people in need, including homebound seniors. Provides emergency assistance with programs like REACH for utility assistance, and connections to agencies that provide services we do not offer such as housing.
Food Bank
Clothing Donations
Job preparation and placement assistance
Economic literacy programs
Utility assistance
Housing referrals
Support groups
Parent education programs and support
Holiday basket toy and food drive
History:
Founded in 1971 as a ministry of the First Christian Church to provide basic emergency support services to low-income people of the Eden Area, Davis Street Community Center incorporated in 1990. Services have grown to extend our outreach to low income working poor, seniors, disabled individuals and entitlement eligible people, particularly those on CalWorks
Contact person: Lizzy Beach, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (510) 483-4486
Address:
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3081 Teagarden StreetSan Leandro , CA 94577(See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.davisstreet.org
| Last updated on September 17, 2009 |
