Seneca Family of Agencies

A Better Way

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A Better Way was founded in 1996 as a Foster Family Program. Since then, we have grown into 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. A Better Way has provided foster care placements for thousands of children and has finalized hundreds of adoptions. We are the one of the few organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area 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 mental/behavioral health services to thousands of 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 thousands of hours of training per year in Alameda and Solano Counties – primarily through Title IV-E Training contracts with 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 hundreds of 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.​

Jay Nolan Community Services

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Jay Nolan Community Services (JNCS) is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization established in 1975 by members of the Autism Society of LA. Currently, JNCS has over 650 staff supporting over 425 individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities through individualized community-based programs.

Pacific Clinics

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Pacific Clinics has evolved over 150 years to deliver the most visionary behavioral health services to California’s children and their families. We began in 1867 as Eastfield Home of Benevolence, a San Jose orphanage, and Ming Quong Home, an orphanage for neglected and abandoned Chinese girls. In 1880, Hollygrove was founded in downtown Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Orphans Home Society. Today, we are one of the most comprehensive, innovative, family-centered treatment programs providing services to more than 35,000 children and their families annually throughout 12 counties in California.

Boomerang Healthcare

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We are dedicated to restoring your hope and helping you return to better health with our unique individual treatment plans. Our expanding network of Providers & Specialists are dedicated to helping you achieve your goals. Our services range from cutting edge interventional pain management and psychological support to physical therapy and functional restoration. Our providers are also subspecialty-trained in the diagnosis and treatment of spinal diseases and interventional procedures including implantable technology. Aside from providing a community-based practice, IPM Medical Group, Inc. has taken further steps to become one of the premier referral centers for the injured worker. With additional services such as disability management and medical-legal evaluations, IPM Medical Group, Inc. is proud to have become the standard of quality care for both injured workers and community patients.

First Place for Youth

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More Than Two Decades of Supporting Transition-Age Foster Youth on their Journey to Independence As graduate students attending the University of California at Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, Amy Lemley and Deanne Pearn were struck by how many young people who grew up in foster care faced intense challenges after aging out of care, including poverty and homelessness. With a small grant in hand, they were inspired to help break the cycle of poverty for these vulnerable youth and launched First Place for Youth, the first organization in Northern California exclusively dedicated to addressing the lack of affordable housing and resources for foster youth who had exited foster care. First Place for Youth helps foster youth build the skills they need to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency and responsible adulthood.

Aspiranet

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Aspiranet is a 501(c) (3), California nonprofit organization with the mission of providing children, youth, and families with a foundation of support and services so they can succeed at home, at school, and in their communities. Aspiranet offers a unique blend of services including foster family support, adoption through foster care, services for foster youth transitioning to adulthood, mental health services, residential care, intensive home-based care, and community-based family resources. For more than 50 years, Aspiranet has been dedicated to offering outstanding services that impact more than 35,000 children, youth and parents at 45 community-based sites statewide.