MARIPOSA WOMEN'S CENTER 4 - 2002

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....... ....,; GOALS AND OBJECTIVESI IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY VI. In the space below, please list the primary goals and objectives for your program. Pro\1de projected numbers of Santa Ana residents to !:Je ser.ed, and the kinds of services they would receive if your program is funded. Also describe the specific actions and tasks that v.ould be performed on a day-to-day basis to achieve these goals. ~ - .(( '-{DO S,4tJIA ~A "R.eSl0E:N"rj ~ See Appendix A for examples. Goal: To help low income women and their families to resolve the problems they are experiencing, so they can go on to lead happy, healthy, productive lives. Objective: To provide counseling, parenting classes, support groups and life skills education to 400 Santa Ana women and their families in the course of one year. The length of services ranges from one week in a crisis situation of I - 3 hours to 2 - 26 weeks for long-term counseling. Services include individuaL couples, family and group counseling. Clients may also participate in any of the life-skills education seminars or parenting classes along with their counseling. Services are provided by 20 - 25 supervised interns from area universities including CSU- Fullerton, Chapman, Azusa Pacific, National and Pepperdine. Interns provide 20 hours/week of counseling services; they have one hour of individual supervision and two hours of group supervision per week, and they receive two hours of additional training per month. Task/Action: (A) To inform key referral sources of the availability of counseling, parenting classes, support groups and life-skills education workshops for low income women and families; examples of referral sources include Santa Ana Police Department, St. Joseph's Hospital, OC Department of Social Services social workers, courts, OC Probation Department, OC Health Care Agency, schools and other agencies. (8) To train professional counseling staff in strategies to work with low income Orange women and families most effectively, through individual and group supervision provided weekly. (C) To conduct an intake on the Santa Ana client women and families who caIIs for services. (D) To open a case file on each client family and record progress toward counseling goals; each client family will participate in 2 - 26 hours of individual, couples, family or group counseling, 8 weeks of parenting classes, and/or on-going support groups and/or 2 - 24 hours of life education workshops. (E) To establish a counseling plan for each client family, offering them a combination of therapeutic services which best meets their psychological needs; the counseling plan is evaluated periodically by the counselor and hislher supervisor to be sure that it is meeting the needs of the client family. (F) To maintain the case file on the client family as a means to evaluate the progress the family is making toward therapeutic goals. (0) Some combination of the following services will be provided to each client family: . individual, couples, family or group counseling - from 2 - 26 weeks, longer if needed . parenting classes - lasts for 8 weeks . support groups and 12-Step groups - on-going for as long as the client wants to attend · life skills education workshops - generally last for I week, from 1 - 3 hours. Outcome Objective: As a resuh of program services, 75% of the families will experience improved family functioning at the completion of their counseling program. 1 af 1fT- EJ'(fflB(1 A