Family Support Services
These services provide the emotional support, advocacy, information, guidance, orientation and linkages to the services families and individuals may need to achieve self-sufficiency and stability.
Information and Referral, Case Facilitation and Family Support.
HSC informs the community about social services provided not only by the city, county and state agencies, but by non-profit and private agencies as well. HSC provides support and guidance to families and individuals in navigating the social and human service systems. Individuals are referred to appropriate agencies according to their needs. HSC staff provides crisis intervention, interpretation and translation services, and advocates for culturally appropriate and competent service delivery for limited English individuals.
Parenting Support Groups and Mental Health Counseling.
Program provides individual counseling as well as support groups for families who are limited or non English speaking, are relatively new to the United States, are unfamiliar with its culture and values, have little or no health insurance, are low income; and are facing situations that increase stress on the family. These families are then at higher risk to experience such devastating problems as domestic violence, abuse and family disintegration. These sessions would allow these individuals to learn to reduce stress while acquiring the skills to negotiate the values of their culture of origin with those of the U.S. culture.
RAICES/FASST - Families and School Support Team
Aims to provide school and in-home services for children and their families. The RAICES project targets at-risk limited English speaking and Spanish monolingual Latino children or those with serious emotional disturbance enrolled in grades K-5 and their families in rural South Hillsborough County and West Tampa. The FASST program seeks to strengthen the functioning of children and families by identifying strengths, family needs and community resources.