SBCS Corporation

Healthy development services are free and help families confirm important milestones as their children develop and prepare to start school. Services include parenting classes, behavioral services, and developmental services.

For expectant parents and parents of newborns who are in the military, immigrant/refugees, teens or low-income, First 5 First Steps strengthens child and family relationships by providing support, education, and guidance through in-home visits.

For families who are either involved with Child Welfare Services (CWS) or are at-risk of child abuse and/or neglect, Community Services for Families offers home visitation, in-home parenting and support, and parenting classes.

SBCS provides a continuum of services to help youth transitioning from the foster care, juvenile justice and homeless systems overcome barriers to self-sufficiency, including:
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING & RAPID RE-HOUSING, combines safe, stable housing with intensive case management, and education and employment support for system-involved youth.
YOUTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT provides youth with educational supports to finish their high school diploma/GED, postsecondary educational options, bridging between education and career, as well as internships and hands-on work experience.
INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS CLASSES prepare youth for self-sufficiency as they transition to adulthood.

Led by SBCS, Chula Vista and San Diego Promise Neighborhoods bring together cross-sector partners focused on family, education, health, and community to provide children, youth and families with opportunities and supports needed to excel in school, not only enter but complete post-secondary education, find living wage employment, and lead healthy lives.
Based on the “cradle to career” community support model, the San Diego and Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood programs have strengthened these underserved communities. You can read more about Promise Neighborhood programs and outcomes on our website.

One of San Diego’s most vulnerable populations, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) youth, often suffer because of non-supportive or even hostile environments in their homes, schools, and communities. Located at SBCS’ Trolley Trestle Youth Hub, Our Safe Place (OSP) provides a wide variety of services for youth and their families, including support for alcohol and drug abuse, depression, family relationships, “coming out,” gender identity/transition, sexual health, and safe dating.

SBCS’ Youth Prevention and Intervention (YPI) Programs provides prevention, diversion, and intervention support services for at-risk youth and their families through several programs, including:
The SBCS-led Central Achievement Center provides services to help youth on probation remain in compliance with court orders, avoid reoffending, and reach their full potential. The Center provides opportunities for pro-social activities, educational groups, and job readiness. Individual, group, and family therapy is also provided.
The Community Assessment Team works to keep youth in school and out of the Juvenile Justice System by providing early intervention to first-time youth offenders, runaways, youth on Probation, and non-offenders and their families.
Alternatives To Detention is a countywide program coordinated by SBCS providing detention alternatives to low-risk juvenile offenders through cool beds, case advocacy, home confinement, reporting centers, supervision, case management and more.

Many low-income youth do not have the means to participate in after-school activities or formal sports leagues or clubs. Since 2007, SBCS in partnership with Sweetwater Union High School District has provided students with academic enrichment and recreational activities during after-school hours.

SBCS After-School Programs also serve as a platform for linking youth and families to additional resources available at SBCS to help the WHOLE family.

SBCS After-School Program offers:
• Sports
• Cheer
• Dance
• Rock Band
• Robotics
• Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM)
• Tutoring
• Community Services
• Leadership Clubs
SBCS After-School partnering schools:
Elementary Schools:
• Stephen Hawking II STEAM Charter
Middle Schools:
• Castle Park Middle School
• Granger Jr. High School
• Hilltop Middle School
• Mar Vista Middle School
• National City Middle School
High Schools:
• Castle Park High School
• Montgomery High School
• Olympian High School
• Southwest High School

SBCS assists survivors of domestic violence to recover from the trauma they’ve experienced. Individual and group counseling provide a place of healing, and supportive services assist victims to rebuild their lives free from violence and abuse.

FAMILY VIOLENCE RESPONSE TEAM
This 24 hour/7 days per week emergency response unit is the first and only one of its kind in San Diego County’s South Region. SBCS staff accompany police officers on all 911 calls with a child present in the home. SBCS specialists then provide crisis intervention, safety planning and follow-up services for victims and their children.

SBCS provides the following services for families experiencing homelessness.
• Emergency Shelter
• Transitional Housing
• Rental Assistance & Rapid Rehousing Programs
• Affordable Housing

Promotoras are bilingual, trusted and trained residents who serve as an important linkage between SBCS programs and community. Promotoras work within their own neighborhood and are active at local schools and parent centers where they provide information and resources such as access to food assistance, housing assistance, and even free tax preparation.

SBCS facilitates regional Resident Leadership Academies (RLA) which inform and encourage community members to actively engage in the issues that affect them, like public safety, civic engagement, and overall community health and wellbeing. Through RLA, neighbors invest in one another and work together to achieve the change they want to see in their neighborhoods.

Our childrens mental health programs offer a comprehensive array of outpatient therapeutic services for both children and adolescents. SBCS also provide mental health prevention and early intervention services for children in low income schools throughout the South Region of San Diego County.