Mercy Center Inc

Familia adelante (family forward)/ family skills/ social services is a group of programs that aims to strengthen family functioning and help participants to navigate systems and resolve problems. In fy24, 245 participants enrolled and 169 completed one or more of our parenting skills classes/activities: parenting (english), parenting (spanish), abriendo puertas (for latino parents of young children), anger management (spanish) and mom's support group. In fy24, we completed the seventh full year of our collaborative 'wholefamily approach' program, familia adelante (family forward), in partnership with fiver children's foundation, qualitas of life foundation, and mindfulness practitioner maritza puello. During fy24, we engaged 318 families in familia adelante activities. 109 families participated in active case management, while 11 families maintained their program status. Our social services unit provided case management, advocacy, and referrals for participants enrolled in other mercy center programs. The unit provided a total of 660 case management sessions for 407 individuals. The top three issues (by number of visits) addressed in fy24 were public benefits, medicaid/social security, and snap/food stamps.

The youth programs unit offers enrichment programming for young people in a safe, supportive environment. In fy24, mercy center provided 100 young people with 16,594 off the street activity hours in our after school, dance, and summer camp programs. We continued our highly successful stem/robotics project as part of our after school and summer camp programs. 98% of the children in our after school were promoted to the next grade in june 2023.