A BETTER WAY INC
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Mission Statement
A Better Way is a comprehensive foster and adoption services agency, providing adoption, community training, parent advocacy, and behavioral health services to children and families at risk or involved with the foster care system. The mission of A Better Way is to empower children and families to develop the insights, life-skills, and permanent relationships that promote their social, emotional, educational, and economic well-being.
About This Cause
Since 1996, A Better Way has provided foster care placements to more than 2,000 children and has finalized 300 adoptions. We are the one of the few organizations in San Francisco and Alameda counties with expertise in assessing and providing behavioral health services to children 0-5 involved in the social services system through pre- or post-adoption, outpatient mental health, and reunification services. A Better Way has provided behavioral health services to close to 2,500 children, many of whom live in our communities’ most impoverished and violence-ridden neighborhoods. In addition to behavioral health services, we provide intensive support and case management for parents pursuing reunification through our Parent Engagement Program with the help of parents who have successfully navigated the reunification process. As a training center for foster parents and service providers, A Better Way provides about 2,000 hours of training per year in San Francisco, Alameda and Solano Counties – primarily through Title IV-E Training contracts with San Francisco City College and Chabot-Las Positas Community College. We coordinate and provide comprehensive training on an array of topics to professionals from other agencies, A Better Way staff, County personnel, and foster and birth parents. Annually, A Better Way serves over 450 foster and adoptive children and families though behavioral health services and the Parent Engagement Program. All of A Better Way’s programs emphasize a strengths-based, capacity-building approach that helps parents and families achieve lasting success A Better Way’s Mental Health Programs serve children, youth and families aged birth to 21 in Alameda and San Francisco Counties. In 2013, approximately 93% of the families we serve live below the poverty line and the vast majority of these families face complex stressors such as community violence, intergenerational trauma, unemployment, unstable housing, parent-child, mental illness and addictive illness. Our families come to us in emotional and psychological distress that is inextricably linked to the myriad problems they live with every day. We provide the community-based, comprehensive services that help them engage in the healing, skills-building, stabilization and resource development that will help them achieve wellness and self-sufficiency. Our services teams are comprised of Psychotherapists with advanced training, Family Partners with relevant lived-experience and expert engagement skills, and Occupational Therapists with expertise in the physiological aspects of psychological and emotional wellness.