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| Last updated on October 14, 2008 |
Seneca Center's mission is to provide 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.
We work with children and their families during the most difficult times in their lives. The children we work with suffer from severe emotional and behavioral challenges, mostly due to abuse or neglect, and many are in foster care.
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.
In San Francisco, we operate a residential Community Treatment Facility for adolescents located near San Francisco General Hospital, as well as a program called Connections which uses a strength-based approach to providing wraparound services for children and families in transition. Connections serves children and families throughout San Francisco and is located in the Mission District.
Contact people:
Main office number: (510) 317-1446 X227
Office fax number: (510) 276-6828
Address:
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2413 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
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Web Site: http://www.senecacenter.org
Directions:
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Located near SFGH, on 24th near Potrero. |
Miscellaneous Information
| Besides English, which languages are spoken at your agency? |
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Spanish
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| What is the minimum age for volunteers at your agency? |
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18
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| Is your agency wheelchair accessible? |
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Yes
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| Does your agency have the capacity to host groups of more than 10? |
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Yes
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| Does your agency have the capacity to host groups of more than 20? |
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No
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