Social Services

La Causa’s Social Services program provides a strength based approach through comprehensive community services and therapeutic treatment options for children, families, and individuals to support personal growth and self-sufficiency. Social Services staff is comprised of highly trained bilingual care coordinators, specialists, advocates, and licensed mental health and AODA clinicians.

Programs and Services

Treatment Foster Care:

Places and serves youth with serious emotional, behavior, or medical problems.

Foster Home Recruitment and Licensing:

Recruits, licenses and trains foster parents for children with treatment and delinquency issues.

Delinquency and Court Service Case Management:

Serves delinquent youth who are placed in foster care.

Treatment Services:

Treats individuals, parents and children with AODA and/or mental health concerns in a licensed outpatient clinic.

Wraparound:

Provides individualized community-based services for emotionally disturbed children and their families who are court ordered.

Wraparound REACH:

Provides voluntary services for children and youth with serious emotional and mental health needs and offers support for their families.

SSI Advocacy:

Serves W-2 families who are not able to work and need assistance in obtaining SSDI/SSI based on their disability.

 

During 2008:

  • 1,520 individuals served
  • 70 children and teens served in Treatment Foster Care
  • 133 homes actively recruited for Foster Home Recruitment and Licensing
  • 802 individuals served by Treatment Services
  • 224 clients served through Wraparound
  • 112 families served by Wraparound REACH
  • 201 individuals served through SSI Advocacy with 55 SSI/SSD awards

Testimonial Quote – “If I would not have met my treatment foster mother I would probably be still running away and would definitely not be graduating from high school.” – Treatment Foster Child