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Support
for Families of Children with Disabilities actively collaborates
with a variety of government agencies, nonprofit, and service providers
to help develop more coordinated, family-friendly services.
Our partnerships include:
Open
Gate Family Resource Center:
A one-stop, family resource and information center. Support for
Families is the lead program agency. Members include: the San Francisco
Unified School District Special Education Intake Unit, Community
Mental Health, Community Alliance for Special Education (CASE),
Community Advisory Committee for Special Education, and the KIDS
Project. For more information on Open Gate collaboration and services,
click here.
Family Voices of California:
Support for Families is the California Coordinator of 14 Family
Resource Centers promoting family-centered health care access for
children with special health needs. Family Voices of California
is part of the national Family Voices organization. For more information
visit their website at www.familyvoicesofca.org
or email info@familyvoicesofca.org.
High Risk Infant Interagency
Council:
HRIIC is a San Francisco parent/professional body with the mission
to ensure that all children with special needs ages birth to three
receive services in a timely and coordinated way through interagency
collaboration.
HRIIC
members include representatives of public and private organizations,
including Regional Center, CCS, School District, Human Services,
early intervention providers, community agencies, and parents of
young children with special needs. For more information, visit the HRIIC website or email info@hriic.org.
Child
Care Inclusion Challenge Project:
A collaboration with the Department of Human Services, the Children's
Council, Wu Yee Children's Services and Support for Families to
increase access to appropriate inclusive childcare for children
with disabilities whose parents are making transition from welfare
to work. For more information, visit the CCICP website
or email info@inclusionproject.org.
Special
Needs Inclusion Project:
The DCYF Special Needs Inclusion Project: SNIP provides FREE specialized staff training, information, support, and on-site technical assistance to community based programs that receive funding from the San Francisco Department of Children Youth & Their Families (DCYF). SNIP, governed by an interagency council, provides a sustainable foundation of collaboration and problem solving that will enable San Francisco’s DCYF partners to better serve all children and youth. For more information, visit the SNIP website or email the SNIP Coordinator .
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