Community and Family Service Agency

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“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Community Services Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students) is a national model program that has been proven effective in preventing and reducing teen substance use. An enhanced version of this student assistance program, including a focus on behavioral health, Project SUCCESS+, is in place in five districts in Sonoma County including the West County Unified School District under WCCS. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Senior Peer counseling - Supervised volunteer peer counselors provide weekly in-home support to fellow seniors with a focus on the challenges of aging, grief, and the use of community resources. Senior peer counseling services for individuals and groups are offered throughout Sonoma County. The Youth Diversion Program provides counseling on life and leadership skills, harm reduction, problem solving, and drug & alcohol refusal skills classes for first or second time youth offenders referred by local law enforcement and schools.WCCS provides group & individual counseling services for elementary, middle and high school students, as well as assessment, referral and crisis intervention at contracting West Sonoma County school districts. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Since 1986, the Russian River Senior Resource Center has been the serving seniors living in Russian River communities. Its mission is to empower seniors to live independently by strengthening their family network. Many of these seniors are physically isolated from services they need to help them stay in their homes. The Center provides life-sustaining and life-enriching services that assist seniors in living productive, independent and meaningful lives. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: The Russian River Empowerment Center in Guerneville is a peer-operated, self-help drop-in center for people who identify as having mental health challenges. The Center offers various groups, field trips, workshops, volunteer opportunities and resource referrals.All other programs: WCCS provides a variety of other programs designed to serve west Sonoma county OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: Mental Health Counseling & Prevention Programs: WCCS Counseling and prevention programs span all ages and a variety of community needs. We offer school-based programs designed to help at-risk youth deal with substance abuse and mental health challenges. We provide mental health counselors to school districts all over West County. We organize community coalitions to address serious issues like underage drinking, substance abuse, and juvenile delinquency. We partner with multiple county agencies to provide intervention programs for youth who need support on their path to adulthood. We operate a "best-practice" consumer-run and consumer-designed mental health drop-in center for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 9: Housing Services provides housing and supportive assistance to low-income, disabled and homeless individuals and families. Services include night-time shelter for up to 50 individuals nightly for at least four months during the winter for those in need in the lower Russian River area, Permanent Supportive Housing through master leasing property, making it available to qualified individuals and managing other affordable-housing developments throughout the area. These include housing to 8 chronically homeless adults with disabilities, supportive programs for residents of 44 apartments and town homes clustered around common facilities on Petaluma Avenue in Sebastopol and a 47-unit development in Guerneville. We manage the properties, offer support services with individual case plans for residents in need of social and conflict management skills, employment, medical attention, food, financial guidance, and other resources to help them maintain stable housing and to improve their well-being.”