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The Felton Institute, formerly known as the Family Service Agency of San Francisco (FSA), was founded in 1889 as Associated Charities. FSASF is the oldest nonsectarian, nonprofit charitable social-services provider in the City and County of San Francisco. [citation needed] It relies on contributions from government, private donors, and private ...
Compass Family Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in San Francisco, California, that provides a wide variety of human services to homeless and at-risk of homelessness families. In 2019, they served 6,000 parents and children. [ 1 ]
In 1901, at the age of 28, Felton was appointed director of Associated Charities (now the Felton Institute--formerly the Family Service Agency of San Francisco). In 1902, she created the Children's Service Agency of San Francisco, which developed the first foster care system in California. [ 2 ]
Art Agnos worked as her assistant when she was appointed, in 1964 by !ayor John F. Shelley to be the San Francisco Housing Authority Director of Human Relations and Tenant Services. [3] In 1945 Robinson went to work for the Family Service Agency of San Francisco. Her first job was as a casework supervisor and by 1956, Robinson was appointed ...
Friedman joined JFCS in 1979. During Friedman's leadership at JFCS, the organization has received national recognition for its programs that include Parents Place, a resource center for new parents and children, Seniors-At-Home, a model continuum of care for frail elderly, and the Center for Children and Youth, providing clinical and educational programs for children, families, clinicians, and ...
Only three diocesan charity agencies were organized prior to 1910. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and ensuing fire prompted the Archdiocese of San Francisco to form Catholic Charities CYO the following year to assist destitute families and care for children who were orphaned by the disaster. [20]
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Federal and State funds for adoptions, the largest SNAP program in the country (known as CalFresh, formerly led by current Department of Aging Director Kim McCoy Wade), CalWORKs program, foster care, aid for people with disabilities, family crisis counseling, subsistence payments to poor families with children, child welfare services and many ...