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- EIN 94-2427088
- (707) 576-7700
- 131b Stony Cir Santa Rosa CA 95401-9507 USA
- afs4kids.org
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Causes: Children & Youth, Foster Care
Mission: To support vulnerable children and families in need of stability, safety and wellbeing in communities
Programs: Alternative family services (afs) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1978. The agency receives its primary funding from county governments. Licensed by the california department of social services as a foster family agency, afs provides therapeutic foster care for children in a variety of formats including short-term shelter care, long term foster care, intensive treatment foster care, and foster care for children with developmental disabilities. The agency is also licensed by the california department of social services as an adoptions agency. It helps its foster parents legally adopt their foster children.
alternative family services (afs) operates medi-cal funded mental health programs for foster children and their families on county contracts in san francisco, alameda, contra costa and sonoma counties. Additionally the agency operates independent living skills programs to prepare older foster youth for emancipation in marin county as well as a program that offers housing and other supports to former foster youth in marin county. The agency serves approximately 700 families.