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Preschool/Kindergarten | Infant/Toddler | New Campus | Family Support Center | Health Program

Our Coming Home Family Support Center actively addresses the most basic needs of families in transition so that their children will arrive at school each day prepared to learn.

 
 

As was noted by the eminent psychologist, Abraham Maslow, successful early childhood development depends upon meeting a child's most basic needs — safety, security and nutrition — first. Only after these needs are met can genuine learning occur.

HFDH partners with and supports our families who may be experiencing times of added stress. Coming Home Family Support Center provides a stable, consistent, and nurturing environment which, accumulating day by day, significantly ameliorates the negative consequences of poverty and social injustice and offers family members hope for a more positive future. We have learned to incorporate the entire family, parents, guardians, siblings and others in each child’s community in the process of his/her education.

We have developed an effective response and communication team to work with families. Our Case Manager, two Intake Coordinators, Mental Health Consultants, two Site Supervisors, Community Health Advocate, as well as our Reception and Kitchen staff work to provide day-to-day support, services and referral information for further community assistance.

Coming Home Family Support Center services can include:

• Individualized support and advocacy services
• Workshops on topics such as nutrition, childhood illness, and parenting skills
• Assistance in the form of vouchers or gift cards that may be used at Safeway, Goodwill, or Target Stores
• Our excellent Kitchen staff also supplements on-site breakfast and lunch food service with nutritious take-home items when available
• Clothes and other household goods (often from generous donors)
• Annual hearing, vision and dental screenings at no cost to the children or their families

All of this effort is focused on our firm belief that healthier, stronger, more competent families mean healthier, stronger, more competent learners. That is the goal of Coming Home Family Support Center.

Early Education Program for Homeless Families
Holy Family Day Home can provide a two-year, fully subsidized early education space on-site at the Day Home for families who are in a homeless situation or have been in such a situation in the previous three months. This special program is designed to help families achieve and maintain stability so that their child has an opportunity to learn and grow during the Preschool and Kindergarten years. To qualify:
1. Your family must currently be homeless, or have been homeless in the last three months;
2. Your child must be ages 2 to 5;
3. Each parent must meet monthly with the Case Manager at the Day Home; and
4. Each parent must attend quarterly workshops.

If you have any questions about these efforts or programs, please contact our Case Manager, Susan King at 415.565.0504, x 210 or sking@holyfamilydayhome.org