Family Support Services (FSS) provides families with information, education, home-based intervention and early identification of children at risk for developmental delay. FSS offers a range of services for families with children 0 to 5 years through contracts with community-based providers. FSS utilizes a family-centered, relationship-based model based on FSS tenets.
FSS Tenets (best practices)
The following tenets were adopted as a set of guidelines to promote quality of early intervention services by programs and providers working with families and young children:
- Family-centered
- Child development focused
- Appropriate caseload ratios
- Reflective supervision
- Multidisciplinary approach
- Relationship-based
Family Support Service Programs
Early Childhood Mental Health Services includes prevention, early detection, and treatment for families with infants and young children.
The Harris Training Seminar is an Early childhood mental health treatment training program for selected providers that is expanding the county capacity for early childhood mental health treatment services.
Mental Health Consultation to child care offers classroom based consultation and individual child treatment services at selected child care sites.
Intensive Family Support Programs
Pregnant and Parenting Teen Services
Teen Service agencies offer home-based case management for pregnant and parenting teens. Confidential services include assistance with health care, childcare, staying in school, career and vocational training, family planning, parent-child interaction and developmental screening.
Special Start
Special Start offers home-based multi-disciplinary services for families with babies discharged from one of Alameda County’s Neonatal Intensive Care Nurseries. The program supports families to care for the complex needs of a medically-fragile baby, helps to coordinate care with other health care providers, and provides resources and referrals for the baby and family.
Your Family Counts Home Visiting Program
Your Family Counts (YFC) offers voluntary home visiting services to eligible pregnant women and families with newborns in Alameda County. The YFC team includes: hospital outreach coordinators, infant feeding specialists, public health nurses, family advocates, family counselors and early childhood specialists.
YFC Brochure
Pediatric Strategies offers multi-level support to the pediatric community to implement best practice models for developmental screening, promoting early literacy, and supporting parents to optimize the school readiness of young children in the community.
Pediatric Strategies include:
Assuring Better Child Health and Development Program (ABCD)
Pediatric Trainings
Reach out and Read supports pediatric providers to give a book to every family at each well child visit. This strategy uses the influence of medical providers to encourage families to read to their child daily from infancy to promote literacy within the home.
Specialty Provider Team (SPT) includes professionals with expertise in early childhood mental health, maternal depression, child development and lactation support. The team provides brief treatment services to select families, and case consultation, training and technical assistance for family support providers. SPT Brochure
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