South Bay Community Services
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The health and wealth of our community depend on the well-being and prosperity of all San Diegans; however, 16% of residents - and 1 in 5 children - live in poverty, struggling to provide basic food, shelter, and health services for their families. Through comprehensive and coordinated services and supports for children, youth, and families, such as housing assistance, independent living skills, employment readiness and financial literacy services, mental health counseling, domestic violence and child abuse intervention, juvenile crime prevention, and therapeutic educational programming, we assist all individuals and all communities to reach their fullest potential.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Juvenile Prevention and Intervention Services
South Bay Community Services’ (SBCS) Youth
Prevention and Intervention (YPI) provides gender responsive
prevention, diversion, and intervention
support services for at-risk youth, ages six to 18,
and their families. Schools, law enforcement and
partnering agencies refer youth to us who may
have a multitude of challenges, so it is crucial to
provide a strength-based family approach to meet
the whole need.
For youth exhibiting risk factors – which can include academic, family, mental health or substance abuse issues- prevention services
are offered to avoid future offenses or arrests. For first time offenders, we work to divert youth from entering the juvenile justice
system and from re-offending. For youth, who have committed more serious offenses or are already on probation, intervention
services bring together wrap around support to avoid continued involvement in the juvenile justice system.
Within the framework of YPI are supports from specialists in the Community Assessment Team, Juvenile Diversion and Alternatives
to Detention to provide individualized focus.
Youth Job Readiness
-Trolley Trestle, Casa Nuestra and Trenton, affordable, transitional housing for former foster youth, and/or homeless youth and their children.-Juvenile Diversion Services, SBCS' Associates work on-site at local police departments with first-time offenders and runaway youth and their parents to develop an individualized, strengths-based, family-centered treatment plan, which may include counseling, mental health services, case management, parent groups, literacy and tutoring services, substance abuse treatment, community service hours, or other civic connection activities. -Excel Program, which prepares youth faced with serious barriers to achieve academic and employment success.-After School Programs, which offer counseling, peer-led drop-in groups, recreation, and health education..-Youth and Family Support Services-Community Assessment Teams (CAT), multidisciplinary teams of providers that are available on a 24-hour basis to provide assessments of youth having problems in many areas such as school, relationships, and family issues.-Vision Achievement Mentoring-Peer Educators and Street Outreach- Children’s Mental Health Services
-Independent Living Skills, providing ILS classes, workshops, and supportive services in cooperation with county-wide ILS providers.
Domestic Violence
Our Supportive services assist survivors of Domestic Violence in recovering from the trauma experienced in an abusive
relationship. The individual and group counseling services we offer, provide a place of healing. Although victims can
never erase what has happened to them, time and support help survivors put the pieces of their life back together,
repair their self-esteem and essentially moved past the abuse. A 24 hour/7 day a week emergency team responds to domestic violence calls for Chula Vista, National City, Imperial Beach and Southern San Diego region. Response team specialists provide crisis intervention to victims and their children and assist children and adult victims plan their immediate and long-term safety.SBCS provides emergency shelter and housing for families escaping domestic violence. In order to remove barriers to
leaving a domestic violence situation, SBCS allows extended family members and teenage sons to stay with family at
shelter. SBCS is one of the only shelters to provide this opportunity. In addition to housing, families receive family and
individual counseling, food assistance and wrap around services that help them lead self-sufficient lives.
MI Escuelita Therapeutic Preschool
The only one of its kind, SBCS’s Mi Escuelita Therapeutic Preschool is especially designed for children affected by domestic violence and abuse to help break the cycle of violence, help them heal and begin the right path to school.
MI ESCUELITA PROVIDES:
A FREE all-day preschool with bilingual staff
Three full-time therapists on staff
Therapeutic, developmental and quality education activities in a safe, healthy environment
ENROLLMENT
Currently, we have availability for 72 children ages 3 to 5 years old. We have three full-time therapists
REFERRALS
Children are referred to Mi Escuelita by various agencies such as local law enforcement, Child Welfare Services and our emergency shelter and transitional housing programs.
HOW ARE WE FUNDED
Mi Escuelita is funded in part by First 5 San Diego, CalEMA, private donations and student sponsorships and through SBCS Annual Change Their Lives Gala.
Healthy Development Services
Funded by First 5 San Diego and free for all children, Healthy Development Services helps families confirm important milestones as their children grow, develop and prepare to start school. Services include: parenting classes, behavioral services, developmental services and vision and hearing services. Children are eligible for services if they are between the ages of 0 - 5 years of age or right before they enter kindergarten.
Community Services for Families
For families who are either involved with Child Welfare Services (CWS) or are at-risk of CWS involvement due to child abuse and/or neglect, this program offers home visitation, in-home parenting and support, and parenting classes. Through CSF, Parent Partners (parents who themselves have successfully navigated CWS) provide in-home support to families as well. CSF is funded in part by the County of San Diego
Children's Mental Health
Children’s Mental Health Services provides individual therapy, family therapy, and case management to children and teens. We also provide support to Chula Vista Elementary School District and Sweetwater Union High School District schools with mental health services.
Foster Youth and Transitioning Youth programs
Foster youth are often removed from their homes for various reason such as abuse, neglect or abandonment. While some may be adopted, reunited with family or find the right permanent foster family, many face instability as they move from placement to placement. It is not uncommon to hear that a child has been moved 15 times to different homes, not to mention schools and new surroundings. The transition to adulthood is even more difficult. Support ends at 18 years and for emancipated youth even sooner. Foster youth transition to adulthood alone often with no guidance, financial support, shelter or sense of place. They are among the highest at risk to end up homeless, unemployed or in prison.
SBCS’s programs provides various support networks to help these young adults overcome challenges including support with housing, counseling, life skills, and job readiness training.
For more information and location of programs contact SBCS: 619-420-3620.
Programs include:
Trolley Trestle
Trolley Trestle offers affordable, transitional housing for former foster youth and/or homeless youth while they finish school or complete job training. We welcome emancipated youth ages 16-24 and parenting youth.
Muncey Manor
Affordable housing development for youth who have “aged out” of the foster care system.
EXCEL
The EXCEL program prepares youth and adults to achieve academic and employment success. Funded by the San Diego Workforce Partnership, EXCEL provides work readiness training, paid and unpaid internships, life skills classes, housing assistance, financial literacy and more.
Independent Living Skills (ILS)
ILS classes offer a unique series of educational classes and services designed to support current and former foster youth.
Transition Aged Youth Academy (TAY)
TAY is a drop in center. Youth are offered trauma-informed connections coaching, psycho-educational groups, leadership classes and youth development activities.
After School Programs
Many of the youth we serve do not have the means to participate in after school activities or formal sport leagues or clubs. Since 2007, SBCS in partnership with Sweetwater Unified School District, has been providing students a safe place for when school is over and an atmosphere where students can engage in activities that benefit their academics and overall physical and mental health.
SBCS After-School also provides an array of programs for the whole family. We know that home stressors can affect a student's academics and achievement. Therefore, SBCS After-School also serves as a platform for linking youth and families to additional resources available at SBCS to help the WHOLE family.
Emergency Housing
SBCS provides emergency shelter and housing for families escaping domestic violence as well as families who are homeless. In order to remove barriers to
leaving a domestic violence situation, SBCS allows extended family members and teenage sons to stay with family at the shelter. SBCS is one of the only shelters to provide this opportunity. In addition to housing, families receive family and
individual counseling, food assistance and wraparound services that help them lead self-sufficient lives.
Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood
a collaboration of partners focused on family, education, health and community to provide children in Castle Park neighborhood with the kind of opportunities they need to excel in school, get into college, find good jobs and lead healthy lives.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of people using homeless shelters per week
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Number of youth service participants who have involvement in juvenile justice system
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Number of homeless participants engaged in housing services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Number of low-income units in market-rate neighborhood
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Context Notes
These current numbers are from only four of our housing communities.
Number of households that obtain/retain permanent housing for at least 6 months
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Number of low-income families housed in affordable, well-maintained units as a result of the nonprofit's efforts
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Number of people in the area with access to affordable housing as a result of the nonprofit's efforts
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Number of youth who report less likelihood to engage in criminal activity
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Number of clients engaged in the criminal justice system in the last 12 months
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Number of youth receiving services (e.g., groups, skills and job training, etc.) with youths living in their community
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Number of direct care staff who received training in trauma informed care
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Number of youth who plan to attend post-secondary education
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Number of meals served or provided
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Context Notes
Represents number of individuals who received emergency food distribution.
Number of parents/guardians engaged in student activities
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Number of individuals attending community events or trainings
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Context Notes
These number represent attendance at SBCS' 40 Hour Domestic Violence trainings and SBCS Trauma Informed Trainings
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
South Bay Community Services transforms communities to support the well-being and prosperity of children, youth, and families.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The health and wealth of our community depend on the well-being and prosperity of all San Diegans; however, 16% of residents - and 1 in 5 children - live in poverty, struggling to provide basic food, shelter, and health services for their families.
Through comprehensive and coordinated services and supports for children, youth, and families, such as housing assistance, independent living skills, employment readiness and financial literacy services, mental health counseling, domestic violence and child abuse intervention, juvenile crime prevention, and therapeutic educational programming, we assist all individuals and all communities to reach their fullest potential.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Every day, our staff works with children, youth and families to provide the most responsive, trauma-centered and community-driven services countywide. With about 400 staff stationed throughout San Diego County at locations such as schools, police department, family resource centers and affordable housing locations – including our main location in the heart of the City of Chula Vista - and working collaboratively with many partners, we can reach our clients where they need us most.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
A few outcomes:
98% of children ages 3 to 5 traumatized by family violence and child abuse showed developmental gains while attending Mi Escuelita.
94% of children and adolescents with serious mental health impairment showed improvement in their life after treatment in our children's mental health program.
SBCS and its partners provide in-home services reaching 437 families involved with child welfare services as well as 2,140 military, teen, immigrant/refugee, and low-income families with in-home services through First Steps.
558 youth/families were served through our Alternative to Detention Program. 96% of youth had no new arrests within six months of closure.
Youth in Transition provided housing and supportive services to 237 young adults/foster youth. 100% of residents went on to safe and stable housing. 80% of youth in our program for 12-months
More than 300 first-generation college students enrolled in 2 & 4-year universities in with 90% retention rate.
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South Bay Community Services
Board of directorsas of 06/18/2019
Ceanne Guerra
Cox Communications
Term: 2016 - 2018
Diane Mueller
Tucker Sadler Architects, Inc
Term: 2016 - 2018
Maria Guasp
American Institutes for Research
Nancy Kerwin
Chula Vista Elementary School District
Kevin O'Neill
KEVIN O'NEILL CONSTRUCTION
Nick Franco
Lupita Baumgardner
Maria Mora
David Bejarano
Sean Kilkenny
Davidson Communities
Diane Rose
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes