Agency Details:

Seneca Center

Seneca Center's mission is to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Seneca provides an outstanding and unconditional continuum of care for the most seriously troubled children and their families in Northern California.

Description:
Seneca Center offers community-based services, school based services and residential treatment services.

COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES
The philosophy behind our community-based programs is relatively simple: Identify the critical services that a child and family need and provide them as long as they are needed.

Seneca's community-based services, while focused on the child, are centered in the family. Parents and other family members are not simply the recipients of services, but play a central role in planning, providing and evaluating services.

Above all, Seneca's community-based services build upon and enhance the strengths of children and families, accelerating their progress toward attaining stability, self-sufficiency, and long-term success
SCHOOL BASED SERVICES
Few would dispute that a person's productivity as an adult is founded to a significant degree on his or her education as a child. The schooling of many children is compromised, however, by emotional and learning problems that require services beyond what their parents and educators can provide.

In response to this situation, Seneca has developed an array of mental health and special education services designed to accelerate each child's academic progress, whether in public school or in an alternative school setting. From preschool to high school, Seneca offers specialized treatment and education services to help students with even the most intensive needs.

Our school-based services are highly individualized for each student, and parents and other family members are enlisted as partners in designing and implementing the education and treatment plans for their child. The result is hundreds of students every year who make remarkable strides, not only in school, but at home and in their communities.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICES
Residential treatment is an integral component of our comprehensive continuum of care for emotionally challenged children and their families.

Seneca's residential services combine therapeutic intervention with 24-hour care in a nurturing, home-like setting. Our strong history of providing unconditional care for the highest-need children and youth has earned us a reputation second to none among residential service providers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California.

Young people and their families know that our team of professionals will do whatever it takes to help them turn their lives around and achieve lasting success.

History:
Seneca Center for Children and Families was founded in 1985 because several caring, visionary people saw a tragedy unfolding: Far too many children were failing in group homes and foster family care. In response, Seneca set out to develop mental health treatment and support services on the principle that emotionally troubled youth do not themselves fail, but are instead failed by systems unable to address their complex and specialized needs.

Throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, Seneca has dedicated itself to becoming a "system of care" agency providing a comprehensive continuum of community-based and family-focused treatment services for children and families. Seneca's continuum of care now includes in-home wraparound services; foster family-based treatment; mobile crisis response services; integrated day treatment and special education services; after-school therapeutic recreation services; public school-based mental health services, and residential treatment.

Contact people:

Anne Farrah, Director Of Community Relations, (phone), (email) Lori Slominski, Human Resources Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (510) 317-1426

Address:

15942 Foothill Boulevard San Leandro, CA 94578 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.senecacenter.org

Directions:

AC Transit Bus 50 from the Bayfair BART stationstops at the edge of the Seneca Center Administrative building parking lot. Please note that the 50 bus from Bayfair BART only goes in one direction, so just hop on and. . . (more)   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Bayfair BART station,   Walk distance (in minutes): 1 1/2 miles   Nearest Bus Stop: AC Transit bus 50, 1 min. minute walk

Last updated on April 22, 2009