Community Services Department

The Community Services Department helps provide solutions to problems for communities as well as individual families. The guiding principal is to present a positive focus in the lives of individuals, families, and the community by teaching problem-solving skills and tools.

Areas of domestic intervention and treatment:

• Family therapy - parenting, couples, communication skills for parents and children, and divorce

• Dealing with problems related to domestic violence and abuse

• Single-parent families

• Elderly - nursing care and tools to help deal with old age

• Placement of children in day care according to eligibility

• High risk youth and their family members

• Assistance in dealing with loss in a family

• Professional counseling – referring adults who do not integrate in the workplace to obtain help and professional training

• Domestic supervision and assistance

Areas of community intervention:

• Providing workshops for community leaders in order to improve the quality of community life, according to the needs of each community .

• Setting up a framework of volunteers and actively involved individuals in community centers

• Recruiting volunteers and actively involved individuals in the community

• Clubs for golden-agers

• Vacations for qualifying working mothers

• Setting up local emergency teams to provide immediate treatment

All consulting services are provided free-of-charge while safeguarding the individual’s privacy

Budget for Community Welfare

Music studio for high risk teenagers
Equipment, sound studio for recordings, acoustics	$20,000
Musical instruments, amplifiers, microphones	$10,000
Therapist and technician	$10,000
Total	$40,000
Center for victims of sexual abuse
Training of therapists (10)	$15,000
Workshops for parents and children	$15,000
Total	$25,000
Golden Age
Activities and transportation	$40,000
New Immigrants
Special programs and assistance for immigrant families and children	$15,000