Parenting Resources
Support for Families of Children with Disabilities
This organization is a non-profit organization that provides free services to families and professionals who work with children with disabilities. It is a parent-run San Francisco-based nonprofit organization founded in 1982. Their purpose is to ensure that families of children with any kind of disability or special health care need have the knowledge and assistance they need to make informed choices that support their child's health, education, and development.
Services Provided:
- Phone Line/Drop-In Center/Resource Libraries
- Support Groups
- Volunteer Parent Mentors
- Educational Workshops and Clinics
- Family Links to Mental Health
- Family Gatherings
- Community Outreach
- Newsletters
Support for Families @ Open Gate Family Resource Center
2601 Mission Street, 3rd FloorSan Francisco, CA 94110
Email: info@supportforfamilies.org
Telephone: (415) 920-5040
Fax: (415) 920-5099
Support for Families of Children with Disabilities
2601 Mission Street, Suite 606San Francisco, CA 94110
Email: info@supportforfamilies.org
Telephone: (415) 282-7494
Telephone aid in Living with Kids
This organization provides phone services for parents who need help coping with the stress of living with kids/ parenting. The service is free and is available 24 hours a day.
Contact Information:
Phone: (415) 441-KIDS
Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Working in partnership with clinical researchers at UC San Francisco’s Child Trauma Research Project, clinicians from FSA’s Tender Lion Family Program provide child-parent psychotherapy for young witnesses of family violence or other trauma. The program provides assessment, treatment, and case management services for parents with children up to age six. The program also engages in outreach, training, consultation, and advocacy to the surrounding community. - No fees are charged to participants.
Contact Information:
2730 Bryant Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
Anjuli Sherin, BA, MFT, Program Director, (415) 695-8300 x 528
Developmental Education for Parents Program (DEPP)
This Developmental Education Program for Parents (DEPP) operates on-site within the Family Developmental Center, annually providing 70 low-income, at-risk parents with stipended, educational workshops that address basic childhood development issues, including the relationship between early parenting practice and children’s cognitive, social, and behavioral capacities to learn. Working with children’s earliest educators – their parents – in a familiar and culturally-sensitive environment, DEPP helps low-income, at-risk parents to begin to perceive themselves as their children’s valuable and successful “first teachers,” aware of the long-lasting effects of early social interaction and environment on children’s overall development. - Services are provided at no charge or on a sliding scale.
Contact Information:
2730 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 282-1090
Yohana Quiróz, Program Director, (415) 474-7310 x 121
Family Developmental Center (FDC)
Family Developmental Center offers a developmental childcare and school-readiness program for infants and toddlers (2 weeks to 3 years, 8 months) and their families. This multicultural, developmental and educational childcare program provides a nurturing, developmentally challenging, and inclusive environment for very young children of low income, at-risk families, including those involving violence, abuse, teen parents, the involvement of Child Protective Services, or the criminal justice system. Infants from CPS referrals and teen parents in CalSafe are a priority.FDC also offers a mainstreaming model for medically fragile and developmentally delayed infants and toddlers. Blending clinical and educational components for both the children and their families, the program provides assessment, Individual Education Plans, and a play-based curriculum. Additionally, FDC offers family support, parent education, speech therapy, occupational and physical therapy, psychological therapy for children and families, and an on-site Nurse. All of FDC’s teaching staff hold early Childhood Education credentials. As components of its program, FDC also encompasses the Child Care Food Program, the Developmental Education for Parents Program, the Golden Gate Regional Primary Therapeutic Day Program, the Molera Medically Fragile Infant/Toddler Program, the Sanguinetti Special-Needs Therapy Program, and the State Department of Education General Child Development Program.Services are provided at no charge or on a sliding scale.
Contact Information:
2730 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 282-1090
Yohana Quiróz, Program Director, (415) 474-7310 x 121
Japanese Family Service Program
This program provides counseling and crisis intervention to all members of the Asian community, including individuals, couples, families, and groups, while primarily focusing on Japanese families. Bilingual and bicultural Japanese professionals assist with marital problems, parent-child communication, school difficulties, personal growth, aging, loss, depression, anxiety, problems of daily living, and mental illness. The program also provides consultations and information to groups, agencies, and individuals concerned with aspects of mental health issues and Asian cultures.Fees are charged on a sliding scale.
Contact Information:
1255 Post Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94109
Shirley Shiromoto, Program Director, (415) 474-7310 x 315
Tender Lion Family Program
Tender Lion Family Program offers outpatient mental-health services for multicultural, low-income, uninsured children ages 5 to 18 and to their families in the Tenderloin, South of Market, and Western Addition districts of San Francisco. Referral sources include the San Francisco County Mental Health Department, San Francisco Unified School District, and foster care and social service programs, as well as parents themselves. Services are also provided for teen parents at FSA’s TAPP program.Tender Lion would like to invite you to a new Drop-In Parent Group, which meets every Monday, 6:00 pm to 7:30pm. This weekly group meeting is open to parents or other guardians of children ages 5-18. It is designed to help parents be heard; find helpful ways to deal with their children; find out about community recourses; learn about child and adolescent development; get involved in dealing with school problems; discuss the stress of daily life; and discuss parenting issues and styles.No fees are charged to families.
Contact Information:
1010 Gough Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109
Debora Fletcher, PhD, Program Manager, (415) 474-7310 x 459
Young Family Resource Center (YFRC)
The Young Family Resource Center is one of California’s first peer-directed, peer-focused Family Resource Centers for teen parents, their children, and their families. Integrating a youth development model, peer-to-peer service delivery, and wraparound resources, the YFRC acts as the hub of a network of support, education, and child-development information for adolescent and young adult parents throughout San Francisco. Building on our Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project (TAPP) case-management program for teenage parents, it offers comprehensive resources for young parents and their children, including financial education, nutritional education, grief & trauma support, mental health services, and vocational training.No fees are charged to participants.
Contact Information:
2730 Bryant Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
Claudia Ayala, BA, Program Coordinator, (415) 695-8300 x 516
