In This Section
What We Do
With 31 programs in 11 languages at sites throughout the area, our comprehensive array of services reaches across all racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and economic lines. More than 70% of our clients have annual incomes below the poverty level, about 65% of the clients are of ethnic or racial minorities, and over half are female.
Our programs have been recognized as national models and have received the highest possible ratings from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.
Children, Youth & Family Services
In response to the complex needs of San Francisco’s families, FSA provides comprehensive, culturally competent programs in multiple languages, at multiple locations. Offering services at no cost or on a sliding scale, we provide family and individual counseling, family intervention, medical assessments, and mental-health services for children, youth, couples, and families.
Adult Services
Our programs for at-risk and vulnerable adults serve people confronting some of San Francisco’s most critical issues: mental illness, dual-diagnosis, homelessness, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS. We provide intensive case-management for mentally ill adults along with mental health treatment, medical management, and housing services for low-income adults. We offer culturally competent services in a wide variety of languages and at many locations, including at clients’ homes.
Senior Services
FSA’s programs for seniors provide a range of services city-wide to help older adults “age in place” with dignity and acceptance. We serve many seniors who suffer depression, anxiety, or detrimental use of alcohol or prescription drugs. For frail and isolated seniors, we offer clinical home-visiting services. Our Senior Peer Volunteer services enable healthier seniors to provide support and assistance to their vulnerable or mentally challenged peers.
The Felton Institute
The Felton Institute serves as FSA’s central resource in the implementation of evidence-based practices in every element of our service delivery, to maximize client recovery. Drawing on the nation’s best teachers and clinicians, in many cases FSA classes are taught by the very professors and clinicians who developed the original treatment methods.