Redwood Community Services Inc

Family social services: our goal is to strengthen families and empower our community's most vulnerable children by building a healthy and whole community, one child and one family at a time. We believe that through staff commitment and by providing a sense of community, we will assist our youth to develop healing relationships. Rcs strives to help our children gain power in their lives, believe in themselves, and ultimately trust others enough to give and receive love.wraparound: redwood community services became the provider of wraparound services for youth and families in lake county in 2010. Wraparound is a dynamic process of planning, implementing, and coordinating services and support to improve the lives of youth and families with complex needs. The process is community based, culturally relevant, individualized, strength based, and family centered. It utilizes both informal and formal support and community resources, and always includes a plan for stepdown and transition. Xamitinl haven is an emergency shelter operated by rcs and supported by the lake county continuum of care (lccoc), lake county behavioral health, and partnering agencies, community members, and people experiencing homelessness. Xamitin haven proposes to address homelessness in lake county through a multi-faceted project designed to provide outreach, safe shelter, housing, and related services to people experiencing a housing crisis. This project serves to fill a gap in the homeless services system of care by providing a stable location for people to find shelter and access integrated homeless services and resources.

Foster family agency - rcs has been providing foster care since its incorporation in 1995. Our foster care programs to create a supported living environment for youth in the system. Youth are placed with approved resource families, educated through a multi-faceted training program in order to prepare them for meeting the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of the youth in their care. To address the differing needs of the children and youth within the foster care system and the complexity of family dynamics, rcs offers an array of foster care options.