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Florence Crittenton Services-San Francisco, California

Founded in 1889, Florence Crittenton Services in San Francisco works to end poverty one family at a time. The original Pacific Rescue Mission served single, childbearing women. In 1893, the Mission became the Florence Crittenton Home. The 1906 earthquake destroyed the Home, but it was quickly reopened in temporary quarters. In 1949, it moved to the Western Addition and an adjoining building was purchased in 1968. Two years later, the Infant and Child Development Program center opened. In 1973, the organization was renamed Florence Crittenton Services (FCS).

In 1984, FCS expanded services to Bayview/Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley while maintaining its Family Child Care Network (FCCN). In 1996, it developed a job training and placement program. In 2002, FCS shuttered its residential program and expanded childcare services to Hayes Valley.

During the past two decades, FCS has accommodated a changing constituency. Census figures show 35,793 children age 14 or younger–almost half the city’s population–are eligible for subsidized child care. They come from families below the 75 percent median income level. Service area unemployment rates are four times higher than the city average; 36 percent of adults 25 years and older have no high school diploma.

With guidance from its executive and departmental directors, 27 employees provide childcare, parent education, job training, fatherhood support, and teen pregnancy prevention programs. Our executive, administrative, development, IT and maintenance staff total eleven.

Programs and Services

Infant and Child Development Program provides subsidized childcare through two FCS-operated centers and a network of family homes. It serves children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old, providing developmental, health, nutritional and parenting support services.

Young Parent and Family Center serves young mothers and fathers, emphasizing healthy families and self-sufficiency.

LEAP (Learning + Earning = Achievement + Power!) is a 10-week workforce training program conducted in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco.

Get Your Stuff Together (GYST) is a teenage pregnancy prevention and education program at Ida B. Wells High School. It focuses on goal setting and planning, academics and grade point average improvements, sexuality, delayed pregnancy, and fatherhood, personal health, and job skills and financial independence.

The Fatherhood Program provides psychological, spiritual, and emotional support to young males. Peer sessions offer parenting, life skills, and employment information. The program is conducted in partnership with San Francisco’s Department of Child Support Services and the Family Court judiciary system.

For detailed information about this agency see:
www.fcs-sf.org