San Francisco

Episcopal Community Services' Skills Center offers day and evening classes in literacy, basic education, and GED preparation to homeless and low income adults in San Francisco. Students attend small classes and can receive one-on-one instruction. Classes are open-enrollment; students can sign up anytime and be placed in a class right away. The Skills Center also partners with Jewish Vocational Services to teach basic computer skills classes.

Boys Hope Girls Hope helps academically capable and motivated children in need to meet their full potential by providing residential facilities and access to quality education through college. Boys Hope Girls Hope—International, which oversees 41 Boys Hope Girls Hope homes in 16 U.S. cities and 3 foreign countries, was incorporated in 1975, and opened its first home in St. Louis in 1977. Boys Hope Girls Hope—San Francisco Bay Area became incorporated in 1999 and began serving children in the summer of 2000, becoming the 28th home and 15th U.S. affiliate.

For nearly a full year, our Healthcare Action Network has been working with Good Samaritan Family Resource Center, in San Francisco's Mission District, in their Pre-to-Three project. This collaborative project (The Homeless Prenatal Program, The Nurse-Midwives of San Francisco General Hospital, Family Health Care at SF General, and The UCSF Infant-Parent Program) addresses pre-natal healthcare and education issues with at-risk women and their infant children. The economic downturn has affected all of the collaborators, not to mention the women and children they serve, and this first year has been a study in creating order out of chaos. Our Action Network volunteers continue providing management consulting, streamlining information transfer, and materials construction. A more concentrated focus on the Centering Pregnancy component during the second year of the project may provide even more opportunities for Action Network member volunteers.

Family Service Agency of San Francisco

Family Service Agency of San Francisco was founded in 1889. It is currently San Francisco's largest provider of outpatient case management and social services, serving 12,000 individuals annually, of all ages, from all San Francisco neighborhoods, in eleven languages. FSA has a budget of $13 million and 250 employees. In addition to being a significant research and training center, FSA provides a vast array of services, supports, and treatments daily to San Francisco's most vulnerable residents.

CLICK HERE to read more about FSASF and UCSF's partnership: Prevention and Recovery from Early Psychosis (PREP).

Produce to the People is a non-profit organization in San Francisco dedicated to aiding the food security and health of our community through garden and food education, the creation of green jobs for youth, and the growth, harvest, and dispersal of organic backyard and community grown produce. They are especially focused on ensuring access to healthy food for underserved and low-income members of our community, and green jobs to youth with barriers to employment.

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