Unlike most local human service agencies that perform a few services for one or two populations, CFC is a comprehensive agency that houses nine major service areas for people of all ages, races, religions and socioeconomic circumstances.
In all, CFC has more than 60 programs within its nine service departments, available to the community at 19 locations throughout Monroe and Wayne Counties.
CFC also recognizes that having a job which pays a living wage is important to all our clients. That is why we offer several important programs which transcend all service areas, including: Work First (a welfare-to-work employment program), the Employment Services Program and the Ways to Work Family Loan Program, which provides low-interest loans to the working poor for anything that can help maintain, or lead to, employment.
Children, Youth and Family Services
Children respond well to healthy family life. But sometimes, undue stress, substance abuse or other debilitating factors can have a devastating impact on how a child grows up.
That's why CFC's Children, Youth & Family Services department works hard at helping families overcome these difficulties. We intervene in situations where children are at risk for abuse or neglect, with the goal of working with the family to prevent foster care placement.
Aging & Adult Services
We help older persons maintain a safe and dignified independence in their own homes, for as long as they are able.
We also provide support services for kinship caregivers and the children they are raising. In addition, our comprehensive services include financial management, guardianship and adult protective services.
We do this through a wide range of comprehensive, community-based services, and through the caring commitment of our professional staff and volunteers. We believe that aging well is a right we all have, and our staff of specialists and committed volunteers work hard every day to ensure all our clients are treated with the dignity they deserve.
Employee Assistance/Counseling Services
Being there for people in a crisis is a big part of our work. In an era characterized by downsizing, long work days and job-related stress, clients rely on our expertise to help them find solutions that work for them.
Just having someone to talk to and guide you through the healing process can be the difference between getting lost and finding the way out. Our masters-level counselors provide counseling services to individuals, couples and families on a wide variety of issues.
Homeless and Housing Services
The number of homeless persons is rising in Monroe County. And the profile of the typical homeless person we are seeing may surprise you too, as more and more young people and the working poor inhabit our shelters.
But our shelters for men and women with children provide clients with more than just a hot meal and a place to sleep. We believe job training, computer classes, counseling and wide- ranging support services go much further in dealing with the root problems of homelessness.
Office of Social Policy & Research
Standing up for what's right, especially when it comes to the under served and poor in our community, is something we care deeply about.
Our services teach clients to use their voice, to get involved, to help them actively transform their own lives. Through advocacy, we focus on changing unjust systems that keep people from realizing their full potential.
Refugee, Immigration and Employment Services
It's hard to imagine moving to a new country where you don't know the language, you don't have any family, and you don't have a job.
Yet every day, we help refugees overcome these hurtles and get them started toward becoming self-sufficient, contributing members of the community.
Our professional staff work to bring refugees into the US, find them housing, enroll their children in schools, teach them English, assist them in obtaining the benefits they are entitled to and place them in jobs. Last year, we found employment for 99 percent of the refugees in our Match Grant Program within four months of arrival.
Restart Substance Abuse Services
Few things can devastate a person like an addiction can. Substance abuse can cost a person his job, his marriage, his friends and, ultimately, his life.
At Restart, we know how difficult it is to kick a drug or alcohol addiction, which is why we take a holistic approach to treating the whole person instead of just the addiction.
Our staff are experts at treating addiction, and regarded as some of the best in the business when it comes to finding the right combination of treatment, counseling and support for each client.
