Sunbeam Family Services Inc

Results: 6,500+ Lives Enriched Each Year, 3,000+ Senior Citizens Assisted Each Year, 3,400+ Hours of Counseling Each Year, 100 Foster Children Provided Safe Loving Homes, 2000+ Children and Families Supported through Early Childhood Programs, Over 100 Years of Service for Children & Families, 160+ Mission-focused Sunbeam Employees, 700+ Passionate and Dedicated Volunteers

Target demographics: Sunbeam provides people of all ages with help, hope, and the opportunity to succeed through Early Childhood, Foster Care, Counseling and Senior Services.

Geographic areas served: Oklahoma City and surrounding counties

Programs: Early Childhood Services: Sunbeam Family Services is a trend setter in our state for the work we are doing in early childhood. Studies show that children who are not prepared to start school at age five are at risk of never catching up and leaving them in danger of not finishing high school. To get in front to the issue, Sunbeam Family Services provides high quality head start and early head start programs to families normally unable to afford them. In addition to high quality education, we provide medical, dental, mental healthy and family support services to the families. Sunbeam also gives families a healthy start through home-based care to expectant mothers and children ages birth to three. Foster Care: Sunbeam Family Services has served Oklahoma's children in foster care for over 100 years, providing stable homes and loving families to children ages 17 and under. Over 10,000 children are in foster care throughout Oklahoma and have entered the foster system due to neglect or abuse. Sunbeam provides safe loving homes to foster children. We do this by providing support to the whole foster family. We help make sure they are meeting all the fostering requirements, give them access to specialized counseling and make sure they have access to high quality early childhood education. Counseling: Through collaborations with schools, connecting with individuals or in a family counseling session, Sunbeam works to improve the quality of life and functioning of individuals by giving them the necessary tools to work thought the loss of a loved one, manage a difficult time at work, or help them learn ways to control their anger. The families Sunbeam serves needing counseling simply cannot afford the $100.00 per hour premium it costs to get quality mental healthy services. To make sure every person that needs help is able to receiving it, Sunbeam reduces the cost of a session based on the number of people in a family and their household income. Senior Services: Sunbeam seeks to give support those who paved the way for current generations a safe and loving support system. All of our services for seniors help them to stay active in their community and help our senior clients stay in their home or find a safe place to call home. To do this, we have a number of programs that provide support groups to people taking care of their ailing family member, give friendship to isolated seniors still living in their homes, provide 30 days of temporary housing for seniors with no place to call home and provide support to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.