Family Support Services

Family Support Services Department Purpose

Our goal is to break the cycle of poverty by creating an empowering environment for families that inspires them to obtain, sustain and maintain permanent housing, as well as achieve educational and career goals to bring stability in their lives.

The Program’s Mission is to address core issues that emerge among poor, homeless and families in severe crisis due to a lack of skills required to obtain and maintain permanent housing.

 

Family Stabilization Program

Purpose: To assist families in breaking the cycle of poverty, repeated homelessness, poor, on the edge of becoming homeless, and/or in severe crisis, by helping them to obtain and maintain permanent housing.

Objective: Families will become self-sufficient by being offered a jump-start towards stabilizing families through the process of renting and/or owning a home.

 

Job Readiness / Employment Program

Purpose: We will assist families who are in need of guidance and direction for a brighter future in the employment world.

Objective/Participant Profile:

• Individuals who may need support to be successful in training or employment.
• Individuals who have never had a job nor have very little work experience.
• Individuals who are ex-offenders and struggle with breaking the barriers from obtaining services.
• Individuals who can become employable.

Family Unification Program

Family Unification is a new program designed specifically for female offenders who are mothers to children under 18 years of age.  Learn more.

Family Success Center

The Family Success Center is a First Place program that provides outreach to children and their families, empowering them to be successful in their personal, economic, and community dimensions of their lives.

The Family Success Center provides case management to families living in the central areas of Seattle. We foster information through encouraging holistic relationship between client and staff, including the following:

• Determining and Achieving Family Goals
• Resources for Basic Needs
• Employing Counseling and Referrals
• Effecting Partnerships Between Clients, Schools and the Community
• Mentoring
• Psychological Services
• Tutoring
• Post-secondary School Guidance Counseling
• Use of On-Site Computers

The Family Success Center provides referral and resource information for King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. People may call First Place at 206-323-6715 for more information.

The Family Success Center is establishing collaborative relationship with schools and agencies in the central area of Seattle.