Detailed Description of Services

Center-based services for Yuba County families with at least one child under the age of 12, services in Spanish available
     • FRC Basic Needs Services (i.e. emergency food, small allotment of diapers, CAN referral, clothes)
     • FRC Groups: Life Skills, Nurtured Heart Parenting, etc.
     • FRC Events: Scrapbooking, Movie and Game Nights, Reading Time, etc.

Home-based services for Yuba County families with at least one child under the age of 12, services in Spanish available
     • Family goal and plan development and assistance
     • Child development via the Parents as Teachers curriculum
     • Linkage and referral to local resources and agencies
     • Early developmental skills assessment
     • Child health assessment for children zero to five years old
     • Healthy Families America trained staff

Please ask if we have interns available to serve families who youngest child is greater than 5 years of age.

Supporting Father Involvement research project for Yuba and Sutter families with at least one child under 12 years of age; currently groups are only available in English

A 32 hour group-based intervention with case management support for co-parenting couples*
Curriculum examines five areas:
    1. Individual Adjustment
    2. Couple Relationship
    3. Skills and Competence as a Parent
    4. Impacts of the Larger Community
    5. Family of Origin & Culture

    • *One participant must be the biological parent of a child under 12 years of age; the other participant can be an identified father or mother figure (e.g. boy/girl friend, grandparent, uncle/aunt, etc.)
    • Must be screened, interviewed and assessed prior to group
    • Must agree to be part of a research project
    • Will be assigned to either an immediate or delayed condition/ couples or fathers only condition
    • Each parent figure will receive a stipend for completing three assessment packets, one prior to group ($50) and two following group ($50 and $100)
    • Groups are held for 11 weeks, three hours per week
    • Groups are led by one male and one female Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFTs)
    • Child care is provided each night of group
    • A family meal is provided each night of group
    • Each family is assigned a case manager for support