Family Resources Community Action Inc

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

Mar 25, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$7,113,051

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Child welfare divisionin fiscal year 2012, the agency reorganized services in this division, integrating the family care community partnership (fccp) and other family preservation services within child welfare. This division now encompasses a broad array of services to include fccp, youth diversion, parent training, intensive family preservation, kinship support services, treatment foster care and aftercare services, and the northern ri visitation center. This reorganization will further strengthen the agency's child welfare service delivery system. This year also saw the launch of a new, evolving system of care in rhode island, with the department of children, youth and families (dcyf) and its partner agencies including the agency. This new approach addresses the need to serve families comprehensively with an array of wraparound resources that includes child welfare programming, behavioral health services, emergency shelters, health centers, basic needs, and employment and training, to name a few.treatment foster care: a total of 50 children/youth were served in treatment foster care. Twenty youth were discharged; of which 19 (or 90%) were positive discharges, up from 82% last year. Five youth were moved to pre-adoptive homes, three of which were kinship providers. Eight youth returned to their birth parents or adoptive parents, two youth moved to independent living, four youth moved to dcyf foster care or kinship care, and one youth moved to a higher residential facility. Treatment foster care has strived to maintain connections of youth with their siblings, and has made efforts to place siblings together in the same foster home. Over the last year, we have been able to serve 22 youth (11 sibling groups) who were placed with siblings in the same home. The treatment foster care program was able to serve 10 more youth this fiscal year in part due to the average length of stay decreasing. The average length of stay for youth that were discharged during this fiscal year was 18.75 months, which is down from 20 months in the previous fiscal year. The average length of stay for all clients served was 15.75 months, down from 21.7 months in the previous fiscal year. This change in length of stay can be attributed to the foster care team's focus on permanency, as well as engaging biological families earlier. Foster family support: this foster family support program (ffsp), the first of its kind in rhode island, provides home based support services to licensed dcyf foster homes and kinship placement resources in an effort to stabilize and maintain children in the families in which they are placed. This can include everything from assisting families with access to economic support, training, behavioral consultation and linking to mental health and other resources. Over the past year, the program also served generic foster placements.the ffsp served 50 kinship families who in turn cared for 54 youth; this represents a 67% increase over the number of kinship families served last year. Twenty cases closed over this time period. Five families were licenses by dcyf during this time period. In addition, three youth were reunified with their birth parents, two youth were moved to new placements per request of the foster parent, one youth was moved to a new placement by own request, and one case went to legal guardianship.in addition, 37 families caring for 47 children were served through the immediate foster family support program, a program that provides an initial 30 days of support to kinship foster parents when a youth is first placed. Eleven of these families transitioned to ffsp.the northern rhode island visitation center: the northern rhode island visitation center works with families whose children have been placed in out-of-home care by the ri department of children, youth & families (dcyf) due to a parent's mental health concerns or substance abuse history. The program offers families a comfortable home environment to have visits tog

Activity 3

Housing and hiv support services divisionthe declining economy coupled with the lack of affordable housing has led to a surge of individuals and families served in shelters and transitional housing programs. There continues to be a waiting list for the shelter. For over 24 years, the agency has provided emergency housing assistance for the homeless and support to help families and individuals transition to safe, permanent housing. The agency's programs address employment, developmental delays in children, parenting, food, clothing, child welfare, mental health and substance abuse concerns and financial literacy are utilized to strengthen families and individuals. The division also collaborates with many other local agencies that address health care, housing, literacy and other needs. Shelter & housing services: shelter & housing services consisted of the following programs during the year:the woonsocket shelter - the emergency shelter including the emergency apartments provided over 24,000 bed nights of shelter to 258 residents (125 adults and 133 children). This number reflects 74 families with 133 children and 41 single females. Of the 96 adults who left the shelter or emergency apartments during the fiscal year, 45 transitioned to permanent housing. Transitional housing program - the program enrolled 18 new families during the report year; of the 26 adults in families that left the transitional housing program, 20 moved to permanent housing. Permanent supportive housing program - the program served 15 single females, two families and one male during the report year. Three of the six residents that left during the year transitioned to permanent housing.shelter after school program - this program, a partnership with the woonsocket education department, provided an average of 144 days of programming serving 15 children by helping them with their homework and providing a place for them to engage in fun social educational activities.wellness program - thundermist health center was available most mondays throughout the year to provide both child and adult wellness visits onsite at the shelter.hiv/aids housing program - the goal of this program is to help people living with hiv/aids to live independently in stable housing with access to health care and supportive services. The program served 12 individuals in the past year; two participants who shared the same household moved on to permanent housing. All clients enrolled in the hiv/aids housing program received basic support services through the agape center.in addition to the above programs, the agency continued to work collaboratively with harvest community church (hcc) in woonsocket which provided shelter to 45 men from november through april. The church is in its seventh year of operating the program. The life skills center at the shelter became fully functional, with four computers for residents to use for job and housing search and for children to complete homework, in addition to a new comfortable area for families to use when meeting with outside professionals and with their case manager. Over the past year, the division has drawn heavily from volunteers and other community resources interested in helping out which has led to improvements/beautification of both the exterior and the interior of the shelter buildings. Of particular note, a group of students from the rhode island school of design created and installed eleven pieces of furniture to enhance the living and bedroom areas of both shelter buildings. Birthday wishes, a local nonprofit, provided birthday boxes to resident children on a monthly basis so their parents can have a party for them either at the shelter or elsewhere.the agape center - hiv/aids support services: the agape center is a community based hiv/aids support and resource center whose mission is to provide services, resources, and advocacy for persons living with or affected by hiv/aids and to promote community awareness and prevention of the disease.

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EIN

05-0259103