Edgewood Center For Children And Families

Residential services:our residential services include three programs: 1) a crisis stabilization unit (the csu) offers youth-focused evaluation and intervention in a family-friendly setting for youth 5-17. The csu is a progressive alternative to emergency rooms and adult psychiatric emergency services (pes). The csu multidisciplinary team provides nursing and clinical care 24/7. The unit offers a wide range of services including: a) comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and risk assessment b) medical screening c) collaborative treatment planning with an individualized, strength-based focus d) crisis stabilization and prevention e) discharge planning including linkage with community supports and services f) coping skills building and safety planning, and finaly g) parent and guardian support and education. 2) a state-licensed 12 bed hospital diversion (hd) space providing intensive therapy and rehabilitation for emotionally disturbed children ages 6-18. Children live in a cottage on our san francisco campus and we work closely with their families and referring counties to stabilize them and return them to their homes and communities. Our hd program is the highest level treatment for a child outside of psychiatric hospitalization and is one of the very few facilities that maintains a full-time staff of psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, nurses and pediatricians to respond to their medical and psychiatric needs. While many residential programs for these at-risk children are closing their doors, children, as young as just 6 years old, arrive at our vicente campus having experienced severe forms of trauma in their lives that, if gone untreated, can have lasting detrimental effects. 3) partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs (php/iop) that allow youth and families to receive intensive, short-term interventions without experiencing an inpatient psychiatric care setting.

Edgewood non-public school and kinship programs:on our quiet, tree-lined campus, high-schoolers learn in a safe, structured, therapeutic environment and receive individualized care treatment. During the day, the special education teacher at our non-public school's counseling enriched education program (ceep) create and implement individualized learning plans based on the students' specific needs. The great majority of the students attending the school here at edgewood achieve grade level advancement while enrolled in the program. The classroom works towards reintegrating youth back to their regular, least restrictive school setting. Programming includes individual therapy, family therapy and social skills training all designed to help youth improve their functioning and academic success. Kinship- this program supports kin caregivers who are taking care of family members. The program strives to keep families together and children out of the formal foster care system with a success rate of 99%. Outcome data also shows that kinship care providers in the program improved levels of perceived support and greater access to critical services. Compared to nearly 1 in 12 children nationwide, 1 in 6 children in san francisco and san mateo county are being raised by a grandparent or other relative. While the safe home of a caring relative offers kinship children a second chance at a healthy life, physical and emotional disabilities can greatly affect youth self-esteem and motivation to succeed. The behaviors, emotions, and health of kinship youth remain significantly below national norms (and similar to that of foster children). We believe that children do best in their own home environment, supported by their families and their communities, our kinship support network promotes family stability by keeping families together encouraging self-sufficiency, and enhancing family integrity, individual values, and cultural and ethnic diversity. Our institute for research has documented outstanding outcomes for family stability. Children in edgewood's kinship youth services program are 10 times more likely to remain in their kinship home (a sign of family stability and safety) than similar children served only by the child welfare system. An average of ninety-six percent (96%) of the children and youth enrolled in our support network are able to avoid entering the foster care system. Edgewood's kinship program started 30 years ago was the country's first comprehensive public-private partnership to serve kin families, and has grown into the national model for kinship services. Edgewood has also played a key role in the development and passing of ab1193, which created the kinship supportive services program in california in 1997. We are proud to have served as a local and national leader in developing replicable kinship programs, and were previously the sole provider of technical assistance and training of all california's kinship support services sites. Edgewood has the depth of experience and expertise necessary to raise vulnerability necessary to raise visibility of the need to support kinship caregivers.

Training requirements as set forth by various governmental agencies.