Safe Schools Healthy Students program is a partnership between the YFRC and Woodland schools. Funded primarily through Safe Schools Healthy Students (SSHS), the mission is to create a network of support, eliminate barriers to services and ensure that children & families are thriving in our community. The YFRC assigns counselors and case managers to identified schools and  provides case management for families, community and school based counseling, and WRAP case management and counseling for the more intense cases.

Self-Advocacy Family Empowerment (SAFE): is a partnership between the YFRC, Child Welfare Services and families throughout Yolo County.   The mission of SAFE is to increase the strengths and stability of families so that children can thrive.  YFRC case manager works directly with vulnerable families by providing direct supportive services and referral.  The program includes the Yolo Family Development Matrix which is a comprehensive tool that is used in partnership with parents to assess strengths, growth, progress, outcomes, and achievement of goals.

Head Start – The YFRC provides mental health consultation and observation to families, children and staff in the Yolo County Office of Education Heat Start/ Early Head Start program. The YFRC counselor provides on-site coaching, assessment, and consultations with teachers and works directly with families to develop positive behavior support plans. 

Step-by-Step a collaboration between Yolo county Children’s Alliance, the Department of Employment and Social Services and the YFRC.  The partnership targets families with new mothers or mothers-to-be for home visiting services to promote positive parenting enhance child health and development and prevent child abuse and neglect. The YFRC provides the clinical supervision, assessment, treatment planning and provide individual and group therapeutic services.

Gang Reduction Intervention and Prevention (GRIP): a partnership between the YFRC, Yolo County Office of Education (YCOE), Yolo County Juvenile Probation Dept., CommuniCare Health Center and Midtown students and their families.  The mission of the program is to confront the dramatic increase in gang proliferation in suburban and rural areas.  The objective is to provide students and their families the support to avoid gang involvement and to be successful in school.  The project includes intensive case management, counseling, substance abuse treatment groups, functional family therapy, and youth engagement activities and programs.

Economic Self-Sufficiency: The Yolo FRC’s Economic Self-Sufficiency (ESS) Program is a comprehensive, integrated economic self-sufficiency initiative designed to bring and maintain families out of poverty and dependency. It is our commitment to this goal that will allow the Yolo Family Resource Center to strengthen program participants’ families, their children’s future, and the well being of our community as a whole. Participants in our series of classes learn basic money management skills and financial literacy including basic financial planning, budgeting, opening checking and savings accounts, and how to save. Classes are in development targeting the needs of youth and young adults. Classes are free and in Spanish and English.

Health Insurance Project:   Assistance available at the YFRC and various locations in the community. The Health Insurance Project assists any Yolo family in obtaining access to needed health insurance, including assistance in completing forms, filing applications, follow-up, and utilization. Specialists can travel as necessary to accommodate events. Healthy Families, Healthy Kids, Kaiser, Medi-Cal Access: Free; assistance available to Spanish & English speakers. In 2008, 741 children were enrolled in health insurance through the YFRC.

Woodland Healthcare Connections is a partnership between YFRC and Woodland Healthcare to provide an on-site YFRC case manager at the health clinic to assist clients with service needs and assistance in accessing health information, education, and services.  The case manger also supervises youth volunteers who as part of their school community service requirements provide staffing to the clinic resource library assisting client to access health information.

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) offers free tax help to low to moderate income individuals who cannot afford professional assistance in filing income tax returns.  YFRC case managers and trained volunteers prepare the tax returns.  For calendar year 2008, the YFRC file returns for over $300, 000.

Coalition 4 Youth

ASSETS a collaboration between the YFRC and Woodland High School to provide after school enrichment and youth leadership programs.

Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) is collaboration between the YFRC and BBBS Sacramento to provide Yolo County children with appropriate adult mentors in an effort to provide a positive role model in each child’s life.

Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program: The Yolo FRC received 1.6 million dollars over the next two years under the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing grant funding.  The HPRP was specifically designed to serve as the framework for prevention efforts to address homelessness in Yolo County.  The county wide effort operates under the leadership of the Yolo Family Resource Center and includes partnerships with the Yolo Wayfarer Center, Legal Assistance of Northern California, Davis Community Meals, RISE, and the Broderick Christian Center.    The intent of the program is to provide a prevention and intervention strategy to assist families and individuals who are at risk of becoming homeless or have lost their housing. The Yolo HPRP has been specifically designed to reach people in need of assistance who are not necessarily connected to the traditional homeless system of care.  The Yolo FRC has developed a prevention and intervention strategy, which works directly with clients to overcome barriers, increase engagement, access services, and track outcomes. In order to develop the broad outreach necessary to reach this population, an integrated system of service access points have been developed in the following communities:  Woodland, West Sacramento, Davis, Winters, Esparto, and Knights Landing. 

Knights Landing Center is a satellite site which serves the Knights Landing community.  YFRC staff provide case management, program referral, support groups, youth development activities, and local access to other YFRC programs.