Seneca Family of Agencies

CEO: Ken Berrick

Submittal Request to lease Fort Scott

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Plans for Fort Scott:

Types of Programs which will be housed at the site:

Founded in 1985 as a provider of residential and nonpublic school services, Seneca is deeply

committed to providing the highest quality of care to youth and families, regardless of how challenging

their needs and/or circumstances may be. Over the past 32 years, the agency has increasingly focused on

the delivery of innovative community-based and public school-based programs. Today, Seneca serves

over 17,000 youth and families each in 17 California counties and three counties in Washington State,

providing culturally responsive and trauma-informed care across 150 distinct programs. This extensive

experience includes over 25 years of partnership with San Francisco County Department, where Seneca

currently provides SB 163/AAP Wraparound, Therapeutic Behavioral Services, School-Based Mental

Health Services, Juvenile Justice Services, Short-Term Visitation Services, and Intensive Services Foster

Care. In fiscal year 2017, Seneca served over 1,000 San Francisco youth and their families, with clients,

caregivers, and community partners reporting high satisfaction with Seneca services. Indeed, 85% of

clients participating in Seneca’s most recent satisfaction surveys agreed or strongly agreed that services

were effective, and 86% of community partners reported satisfaction with Seneca’s responsiveness as a

collaborative partner.

The largest child-serving non-profit in California, Seneca brings significant expertise and

enhancements to the San Francisco Bay Area. Notable events and accomplishments include:

June1985: Founded as Residential and Non-Public School Services.

July 1992: Medi-Cal mental health certification obtained.

November1995: San Francisco Alternatives program launched, later to become Community

Treatment Facility

November 2001: Seneca awarded public benefit conveyance of 8 acres at Oak Knoll Naval Base

January 2010: In partnership with Oxford University Press, Seneca publishes Unconditional

Care

February 2010: Seneca partners with CPYP and national experts to create National Institute for

Permanent Family Connectedness (NIPFC)

March 2010: Seneca achieves behavioral health accreditation from The Joint Commission.

July 2011: Seneca Center merges with Kinship Center to form Seneca Family of Agencies

March 2012: Canyon Acres Children and Family Services is acquired by Seneca Family of

Agencies

September 2012: Seneca is awarded 3-year grant by U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services to

implement Lifelong Connections Initiative

November 2013: Seneca is awarded 3-year Investing in Innovation (i3) grant by the U.S. Dept of

Education

January 2014: Seneca’s Unconditional Care model is selected by the Center for the Study of

Social Policy as one 15 exemplary youth programs in the U.S.

July 2016: Above the Line is acquired by Seneca Family of Agencies

At the heart of Seneca’s capacity to effectively serve youth and families impacted by significant

mental health challenges and complex stressors is the agency’s clinical treatment model, Unconditional

Care, which guides service planning and delivery across three separate, but interrelated dimensions:

relational, drawing upon Attachment Theory to assess each child and caregiver’s internal working model

of relationships and how those relationships influence their behaviors and attachments; behavioral,

drawing upon Learning Theory to analyze how a child’s behaviors are learned and sustained by rewards

and motivators in his/her environment; and ecological, drawing upon Systems Theory to analyze the

environmental context, stressors and strengths that impact caregiver ability raise and nurture their

child(ren). By attending to the trauma-related and ecological service needs of youth and families, Seneca

staff are better able to address the complex and interrelated factors that impact each young person’s well-

being, safety, and permanency. The Unconditional Care model reflects Seneca’s decades of clinical

experience serving vulnerable youth in service settings. Drawing from this experience, Seneca has a

nuanced understanding of the clinical and programmatic features that make outpatient mental health

programs effective for youth and their families. These features include:

Collaboration: Seneca services are defined by collaboration and responsiveness, exemplified by

Seneca’s close partnerships with San Francisco public agencies, community-based providers, caregivers,

and families. Seneca has developed strong partnerships throughout the San Francisco system of care,

leveraging the expertise of community partners to address specialized client needs (e.g. partnering with

Huckleberry House to serve a youth at risk of commercial sexual exploitation, and Larkin Street to serve

youth and young adults experiencing disconnection and homelessness).

Trauma-Informed: The highest-needs youth are also frequently those with the greatest exposure to

adverse childhood experiences. As such, Seneca recognizes that to effectively address our clients’

emotional and behavioral health concerns, we must always adopt a trauma-informed stance—taking the

time to deeply understand our clients’ trauma histories, understanding behaviors as adaptive tools for

coping with trauma, and implementing clinically effective intervention strategies for trauma (e.g.

mindfulness and distress tolerance through Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, trauma-focused individual

and family therapy, etc.). For more detailed information, please see the Trauma-Informed Care section.

Cultural Responsivity: All Seneca staff are trained to attend to the intersectional factors (e.g.

race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, primary language, religion, geographic location, sexual orientation,

gender expression/identity, family configuration, education, etc.) that together comprise a robust and

nuanced cultural identity. Seneca staff recognize that all individuals, even individuals from similar

cultural backgrounds, have a distinctive cultural identity and thus require specialized care designed to

meet their unique needs. To deliver such individualized services, Seneca staff are provided with the

training and support necessary to (1) maintain awareness and sensitivity to the legacies of societal

oppression; (2) lead with curiosity and maintain a balanced perspective when there are cultural

differences between staff and clients; (3) exhibit person-centered empathy and revere clients for their

strength and resilience; (4) encourage cultural kinship or mutuality; and (5) maintain a position of cultural

openness, vulnerability, and/or “not knowing,” which recognizes that clients are the true experts regarding

their own story.

Flexibility: Seneca’s commitment to adaptable, client-driven service provision is reflective of the

organization’s advanced clinical understanding that outcomes for children and families are maximized

when providers (1) deliver services in the location, setting, and language that feels most natural for clients

and (2) refuse to give up on clients, regardless of how challenging their circumstances and/or presenting

needs may be. Staff flexibility can take the form of: driving to meet clients at locations convenient to

them within a 90-mile radius of San Francisco; providing services after hours and on weekends; and

continuing to provide services even if clients repeatedly miss appointments. This enduring commitment to

meeting youth and family needs demonstrates to our clients that Seneca services are both stable and

reliable, thereby strengthening engagement, deepening the therapeutic alliance, and ultimately allowing

for better outcomes and more effective service delivery.

The following services are provided to San Francisco youth and families in close collaboration with

San Francisco County:

Community-Based Therapy: Seneca’s Community-Based Therapy team provides attachment and trauma-

informed interventions to youth and families in convenient, community-based settings (e.g. home, school,

etc.), aiming to make therapeutic services as effective and readily accessible as possible. Each enrolled

youth is assigned a Seneca Therapist, who provides individual therapy and family therapy services as

often as clinically indicated by the comprehensive assessment process. Taking a trauma-informed

approach, Therapists draw from a diverse array of carefully selected evidence-based practices and other

treatment modalities to help youth and their families heal from traumatic experiences.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): In 2016, Seneca opened a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

clinic in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and San Francisco

Department of Public Health. Leveraging the expertise of UCSF to implement the model to fidelity,

Seneca’s DBT clinic specializes in serving youth who present with high-risk behaviors, such as self-

harming, suicidal ideation, or a history of suicidality. A cornerstone of the DBT model involves youth and

caregiver participation in a weekly two-hour Multi-Family Skills Group, which provides psychoeducation

pertaining to mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Youth

also participate in weekly individual therapy and monthly family therapy, with a focus on applying the

skills learned in the Multi-Family Skills Group to real-life situations. To further assist youth in skill

implementation, they have access to phone coaching with their individual therapist (available 24 hours a

day, Monday-Friday), through which they receive immediate assistance on the application of DBT skills

in real time.

Youth Transitional Services (YTS): YTS is primarily a clinical case management program that seeks to

help justice-involved, transition aged youth to develop independent living skills. YTS, which is co-

located with JPD, is expressly designed to help youth successfully (1) complete the terms of their

probation and exit formal involvement in the legal system and (2) transition to adulthood with the skills

necessary to live and thrive independently. The focus of YTS interventions includes skill-building across

vocational, educational, and recreational domains. By targeting these aspects of independent living, the

YTS Clinician can connect the youth to the resources they need to transition out of probation and into

adulthood, while simultaneously building their social-emotional skills to promote sustainable success.

Wraparound: Wraparound is designed to provide intensive clinical case management and coordination of

care for youth who are at risk of home or school placement disruption. Each Wraparound team consists of

(1) a master’s-level Care Coordinator, who is responsible for clinical assessments, plan development, and

coordination of services across multiple levels of care providers and a (2) a bachelor’s-level Support

Counselor, who partners closely with youth and families to deliver case management and mental health

interventions. While Wraparound has historically only been available to youth with open dependency

cases, the recent expansion of IASC (i.e. Katie A.) has expanded eligibility for Wraparound to non-

dependent youth. Over the past year, San Francisco County has asked Seneca, the Lead Wraparound

Agency for San Francisco County, to be the sole provider of Wraparound.

All-In! School-Based Mental Health Services: Over the past eight years, Seneca has developed a unique

approach to providing embedded school-based mental health services while increasing the capacity of the

larger school system to deliver trauma-informed social-emotional interventions. By integrating services

into school sites, we can simultaneously provide services to students while building the capacity of

schools to be therapeutic interventions in and of themselves. As such, Seneca proposes to implement this

integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to the provision of school-based mental health services in the

Bayview-Hunter’s Point district of San Francisco. As a result of high rates of community violence and

experiences of poverty, children in the neighborhood frequently come to school manifesting symptoms of

chronic stress and pervasive trauma, which impacts overall well-being and access to educational

opportunity.

In addition to those described above and with the additional space afforded by Fort Scott,

Seneca looks forward to expanding existing services to include:

Charter school for underprivileged children

Homeless facilities

Shelter care

Potential adult/senior living

Potential hotel

Potential incubation and start-up work facilities

Potential Museum Hall

Art Exhibition Hall

Meeting/Conference area(s)

Higher Learning

Retail and mixed-use development for restaurants and visitors to enjoy the area

Overview of the actual site:

Seneca will be structuring the completion of the project in phases. Seneca currently occupies over twenty

thousand square feet in the San Francisco-Southern Marin area and is looking to expand.

Phase I Approximately 40,000 sq ft of rehabilitation space will house Seneca's needs within the

San Francisco market. This space will house their current programs and expansion of additional

programs which the city of San Francisco has expressed interest in contracting with Seneca to

provide. Seneca is currently limited by the amount of space to house their current and future

programs and Fort Scott will provide the opportunity to increase their footprint within the San

Francisco Market. Timeline: Approximately 24-36 months.

Phase II Approximately 40,000 sq ft of rehabilitation space: Supporting a broader community

need, Seneca intends to partner with other non-profits in the area which also need additional

space, allowing for a more robust continuum of services in a concentrated locality. With Seneca's

extensive knowledge and capabilities in the rehabilitation of properties, Seneca will hold the

master lease with the Presidio Trust while leasing additional buildings to other non-profits and

organizations in the San Francisco market. Timeline: Approximately 12-18 months after Phase

I is completed.

Phase III Approximately 40,000 sq ft of rehabilitation space: Seneca will open space to other

types of organizations, potentially museums, art exhibits, and space which can be shared or used

by the public. Timeline: Approximately 12-18 months after Phase II is completed.

Phase IV and on: Seneca will plan to open and rehabilitate approximately 20,000-40,000 square

feet every 12-18 months with other organizations and companies that might not be non-profit.

Organizations which Seneca will be targeting: Companies that have a synergistic future with the

existing organizations and the non-profits working throughout the Fort Scott campus. Seneca's

vision will be to strategically seek out and work with companies that have an outlook for San

Francisco and provide services that will benefit the City of San Francisco.

New Construction Site(s): Seneca would be looking for a housing project for lower income

residents

Potential Hotel Site(s): Provided the City and Presidio Trust approves, Seneca could potentially

work with a hotel operator or operators to create a hotel site for travelers looking to share in the

beauty of the Fort Scott location.

Seneca's experience in developing sites:

Seneca Family of Agencies currently occupies 125 locations throughout California and Washington State.

Many of the properties which Seneca occupies have been rehabilitation projects. Seneca's Construction

team is headed by Shane Patterson who works with the city, planning, and building departments to

provide a new vision for their properties.

Holy Redeemer site, Oakland, CA.

The Holy Redeemer site in Oakland is a 24-acre campus with approximately 48,000 sq ft of buildings.

Many of the buildings need a complete renovation as they are currently uninhabitable. Seneca will be

turning the Holy Redeemer site into their main headquarters in Oakland and incorporate other non-profit

organizations to make this a non-profit center in Oakland.

1234 Empire Street, Fairfield, CA.

Seneca purchased this 40,000 sq ft medical office building in Fairfield, California. At the time, the office

had not been in used for over seven years. Seneca did a complete remodel of the entire buildings and

made the property into a non-profit center for social innovation which currently houses small to medium

sized non-profits including Seneca.

Seneca Family of Agencies to Holds Grand Opening of

Non-Profit Family Services Center in Solano County

Providing Comprehensive Support for the Region’s Children and Families

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (July 21, 2015) – Seneca Family of Agencies, a leading provider of critical services for

vulnerable children and families, today opened a new 40,000-square-foot Solano County location. This new site

expands not only the capacity for Seneca to provide comprehensive services to the Solano County communities but

will increase access for families to other important services and providers as well.

“We are deeply grateful to Dr. Broschard and the Fairfield Medical Arts Center for their generous support in

acquiring the property, and to City Manager, David White, for the city’s warm welcome and engagement,” said Ken

Berrick, President and CEO of Seneca Family of Agencies. “In partnership with Solano County Social Services and

Mental Health, we are looking forward to providing vital services for children and families, and to providing a home

in Fairfield for the nonprofit community.” Founded in 1985, Oakland-based Seneca Family of Agencies has a 30-year history of Unconditional Care,

supporting children and families through a multitude of challenges. The organization has over 1,000 staff members

in 12 California counties, and offers a combination of community-based, school-based and family-focused services

for children and families.

“I am so appreciative of Seneca Family of Agencies coming to Fairfield and look forward to the wonderful services

that are so desperately needed by so many of our young people,” said Mayor Harry Price, Fairfield. “The emphasis

on children deserves the greatest commendation I can give.”

The new site, located at 1234 Empire Street in Fairfield, will be the new permanent home for Seneca staff working

in Solano communities and schools, as well as the hub of other local non-profit organizations. Over the next few

months, Seneca will convert the building into a non-profit innovation center, offering affordable leases, shared cost

agreements and supportive services to other organizations who might otherwise struggle to find available and

affordable office space close to the communities they serve. By collaborating with other organizations to offer

services in the same building, families can easily access multiple providers in one location, allowing for a one-stop

service option in Solano County.

While Seneca is committed to continue offering a vast array of unique and individualized services in the homes and

schools of youth and families, the new office will be a space that enhances safety, development, and a haven for

stability for families. This new office offers additional flexibility by being both accessible by public transportation

and in close proximity to the communities Seneca serves.

Services at the new Solano County location include:

Therapy, both individual and family, that allows youth and families to process complex family dynamics

and histories of trauma.

Academic and behavioral skill building services for youth.

Therapeutic groups, individual treatment, workforce development and case management services that

support youths’ transition to adulthood.

Resources for parents, including case management, support groups and skill building workshops, which

equip them with tools to promote their child’s healthy development.

Community events that encourage families to heal and strengthen their relationships.

Solano County partners include: Solano County Departments of Mental Health, Child Welfare, and Probation; First

Place for Youth; and Foster Luv.

(Note to Media: Reporters are welcome to attend on Tuesday, July 21 at 3pm and example families are available for

interviews. This is not a public event.)

Seneca's Site in San Jose, CA

Complete rehabilitation of this former early 20th century house. Seneca's team kept the beauty of this

former mansion and updated it to its current condition.

Petaluma, CA. complete school site and rehabilitation campus

Concord, CA.

This office building was non-operational for 6 years when Seneca purchased it and renovated the

entire property.

Atascadero, CA.

Former Library rehabilitated by Seneca, now a showpiece in the city

How Seneca Plans to Achieve this goal:

Seneca has a long-term vision for Fort Scott. The immediate vision is to house their current programs and

Collaboratively partner with other nonprofits to make this facility the model for a non-profit center which

can be duplicated throughout the country. Seneca's vision is to provide an environment at Fort Scott

which shall enhance San Francisco, and offer a place where non-profits working to help the cities needs

have a pleasant work environment and can attract the type of employees looking to make a difference in

the community.

While Seneca has maintained exceptional programs in the community for over 30 years, some of

those programs have gone without permanent and sustainable facilities resulting in instability and

impermanency for some of our most impactful programs in the Bay Area. Currently, some of the

programs who enroll youth who struggle with educational, mental health and behavioral challenges, and

whose needs eclipse the capacity of other providers in the community and throughout the Bay Area.

Through the provision of family, student and community interventions, these programs aim to set the

youth and their families on a path toward lifelong learning and stability by addressing emotional,

academic, and behavioral challenges that inhibit their ability to thrive in mainstream educational and

family settings. Many of the youth served in these programs are impacted by unstable homes and neighborhoods,

often coupled with involvement in the child welfare or juvenile justice system. Thus, without deliberate,

intensive interventions, youth may experience academic failure and social isolation – drivers to long-term

emotional, behavioral and educational challenges. When left unaddressed, these challenges can have an

immense and lasting impact on the youth, their families and their communities. By intervening and interrupting that trajectory at a critical stage in their development, Seneca’s

services can transform the pathways of these youth. Intervention strategies include:

Implementation of one-on-one and milieu-based trauma-informed behavioral interventions by highly

trained counselors and clinicians.

Therapy, both individual and family, that allows students and families to process complex family

dynamics and histories of trauma and neglect.

Academic skill building activities directed by credentialed special education teachers and designed

with each student’s unique needs in mind, that align with California State Standards (for K-1

classroom) and the California Preschool Curriculum (for the preschool).

Therapeutic play groups that support students’ socio-emotional skills.

Resources for parents, including support groups and skill building workshops, which equip them with

tools to promote their child’s school-readiness.

Community events, for the youth and their entire family, that teach and encourage ways that students

and parents can engage with the educational system as a partner.

While we are committed to offering this vast array of unique and individualized services, none of

this is possible without offering first, a welcoming, comfortable and safe space, removed from the

everyday stressors at home and in the community. A space that enhances learning, growth and

development, and a haven for stability. With its focus on serving children with experiences of failure, isolation and alienation, Seneca

strives to cultivate a welcoming and safe setting, well-equipped to meet the unique needs of each student

and family, supporting the permanency for every child enrolled in our services.

Financing of the site for rehabilitation:

Seneca Family of Agencies will be the major finance partner for the project. Seneca will bring in various

development partners including a series of other non-profits to facilitate the various portions of the

property that meet the goals for the entire project. Wells Fargo is one of Seneca's financing partners and

currently has a bond issue worth $24 million before said project has been incorporated.

Financial information provided upon request

Program's run by Seneca Family of Agencies:

CRISIS SERVICES

Mobile Response Teams (MRT) Contra Costa County

Mobile Response Teams (MRT) support families in serious distress with immediate crisis intervention and mental

health services. The teams travel to where the youth and family are in the community, in order to provide services at

the time of the crisis. This can occur in family homes, schools, hospitals, or other community and residential

settings. Therapeutic interventions by the teams are primarily centered on assessing the immediate safety needs of

the family, stabilizing the youth in crisis, and providing assistance and support to the caregivers. Follow-up linkage

services are provided in order to ensure youth and family connections with longer-term mental health services, if

needed.

Willow Rock Center (WRC) Alameda County

Willow Rock Center is an adolescent crisis stabilization and treatment facility provided in partnership by Seneca,

Telecare Corporation, and Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services. Willow Rock has three components: a

23-hour crisis stabilization facility (Seneca), an acute inpatient program (Telecare), and an outpatient program

(Seneca) designed to transition adolescents back into the community with links to needed supports. Seneca’s 23-

hour program is the front-end of the crisis stabilization continuum of care and is designed to provide the immediate

intervention services necessary to divert adolescents from hospitalization. Program staff provide a safe and nurturing

environment as they assist the youth in regaining the stability necessary to return home or to a community-based

placement. Seneca’s Intensive Outpatient program operates as the back-end service to the crisis stabilization

continuum of care. Intensive outpatient services are available to youth coming from either an inpatient setting or the

23-hour assessment center. Intensive outpatient services may last from several weeks to 12 months depending on the

needs of the youth.

COMPASS (Comprehensive Assessment and Stabilization Services) Ventura County

Ventura COMPASS is a child crisis stabilization and short-term residential treatment facility providing intensive

assessment, stabilization and transition services for youth at imminent risk of hospitalization. Youth who are

assessed in the 23-hour crisis stabilization unit may be transferred to Seneca’s short-term, intensive, residential

placement; to an in-patient hospital facility; or to their home with additional support.

STEP Kaiser Permanente Partnership in the Bay Area

STEP is a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for vulnerable adolescents experiencing mental health crises.

These programs engage youth on a short-term basis (typically 2 weeks) and run from 10am – 4pm, Monday through

Friday. Seneca’s multidisciplinary teams work collaboratively with the youth and family to support their

stabilization and connection to needed resources that can ensure long-term recovery, wellbeing, and safety.

COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES

Wraparound Programs Marin, Orange, San Francisco, Solano, Sonoma, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara County

Seneca works in close partnership with Social Services, Mental Health, Juvenile Probation, and other service

providers, organizations to provide this family-centered, strengths-based, and outcome-oriented alternative to group

care placements for children and youth with complex and enduring needs. The focus of the program is to draw upon

community and family strengths to support children and youth in the homes of caring families (biological, fictive

kin, or foster families), rather than in group care settings.

Intensive Case Management Services for Probation-Involved Youth Alameda and San Francisco County

In partnership with the public behavioral health and probation agencies in these two counties, Seneca clinicians

provide assessment and intensive case management services for young people supervised by the Alameda County

Collaborative Court and San Francisco Wellness Court, as well as for other justice-involved youth in San Francisco.

Intensive Services Foster Care (ISFC) Monterey and Bay Area Counties

The ISFC program offers a family-based alternative to group care, utilizing trained and highly-supported foster

parents as the primary caregivers. Program support includes intensive staffing: social workers provide case

management and therapy for children and families, as well as supervising support counselors who work one-on-one

with children in their foster homes, schools, and communities. Seneca staff psychologists, psychiatrists, and

education specialists provide consultation to ITFC program staff, as needed, to address the needs of foster youth and

their caregivers.

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Alameda County

Seneca collaborates with County Probation and Behavioral Health Care Services to provide Multisystemic Therapy

(MST) to youth and their families. MST is an evidence-based practice that utilizes intensive, strengths-based therapy

provided in the home or community of each client youth and family. The average treatment duration is five to seven

months. The focus of the program is to build upon family and community strengths to address difficulties the youth

is experiencing in school, with peers, and in family relationships. Addressing these key areas reduces the likelihood

of re-involvement with the juvenile justice system.

Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, Solano, and Sonoma

County

TBS is a short-term, Medi-Cal funded, behavioral intervention for children who are receiving mental health services,

but are at risk for placement disruption due to unmanageable behaviors. Through time-limited, one-to-one

behavioral interventions with a TBS clinician, this program provides the child with skills to effectively manage the

behaviors that are jeopardizing his/her placement in the lowest appropriate level of care.

Transition Age Youth (TAY) Services Alameda and Solano County

Seneca, in partnership with First Place for Youth, serves transition age youth (16-24 years) with serious emotional

issues, many of whom are former foster youth. This program provides mental health, supportive housing, life skills

training, education, and workforce development services.

Equine Therapy Orange County

Canyon Acres Ranch incorporates an equine therapy program with several horses and a specially trained equine

staff.

PERMANENCY SERVICES

Child Placement and Adoption Services Provided in Monterey, Orange, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, and

Santa Clara Counties

Adoption from Foster Care

Adoption professionals recruit, evaluate, and train adoptive families for California foster children who need a

permanent family. When families are ready to receive a child, adoption professionals match them with waiting

children, facilitate the placement with the family, and supervise the placement until an adoption is finalized in a

California Superior Court ceremony. Post-adoption services are available to families through parent education,

counseling, support groups, and mental care. Children adopted from foster care have had prior trauma from

abandonment, neglect, and abuse, and may require extensive services intermittently over childhood. Seneca’s

Kinship Center specializes in adoption of older children, sibling groups, and those with medical/developmental

challenges.

Infant Adoption

Infant adoptions are most often voluntary arrangements made by birth parents to provide a permanent family to a

child for whom they cannot provide permanent care. Birth parent counseling is provided prior to and after birth.

Parents make voluntary relinquishment decisions and the legal custody of the child is transferred to Kinship Center

for the purpose of adoptive placement. Adoptive parents receive evaluations and training prior to receiving a child.

Most often infant adoptions are open arrangements with disclosure of identity and ongoing relationships between the

birth and adoptive families.

Resource Family/Foster Care

Foster care may be a pre-adoptive placement with the family who will ultimately adopt. Some foster care

placements are offered to older youth or medically fragile children for whom permanency needs to be planned and is

not yet determined. All foster care at Kinship Center is focused on developing a permanent family for the child.

Wendy’s Wonderful Kids – LA Recruitment Program

Through a grant from Wendy’s Corporation/Dave Thomas Adoption Foundation, three specialized adoption

recruiters find families for Los Angeles County’s most challenging to place children and youth. This successful

recruitment program places about 75 children each year. The program specializes in older youth, sibling groups, and

medically fragile child placements. Many of the foster youth are placed with Kinship Center families in Orange, Los

Angeles, and San Bernardino counties. The program has been honored by Wendy’s Corporation and North

American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC).

Relative Caregiver Programs Provided in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties

The Family Ties program provides case management, respite, educational, and therapeutic services to relatives who

are keeping children out of the traditional foster care system and keeping them connected to their birth families. The

vast majority of caregivers are low income grandparents, mostly single grandmothers. The children have had the

same trauma history as foster youth but are spared the foster care experience. Funding is limited and comes

predominantly from Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP). Relatives have access to Kinship Center’s clinics

for necessary mental health care related to the prior trauma and disabling behaviors.

Mental Health Clinics Provided in Monterey, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, and Orange Counties

The mental health out-patient clinics are county behavioral health contracts funded by EPSDT. The clinics are

permanency-specialty models and are a unique post-permanency service in mental health care. The model has been

noted as a promising practice by Georgetown University through their national Systems of Care program. The

clinics use several evidence-based interventions. The combined clinics typically have caseloads of about 500

children and their families in care at any given time. All three clinics have associated specialized services in early

childhood screening and assessment. San Luis Obispo provides screening and assessment to drug affected young

children in foster care. Orange County provides screening, assessment, and caregiver education services to

caregivers of young foster children, with access to mental health care when indicated. Monterey has an early

childhood prevention, counseling, and education program that outreaches to underserved and low income, mostly

Latino, communities. Monterey also has an additional adoptive parent education and adult counseling service funded

by Mental Health Services Act (MSHA), the only adoption program in California associated with this special

funding.

SCHOOL-BASED AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

Building Blocks Therapeutic Preschool Provided in Alameda County

The Building Blocks program provides caring, therapeutic interventions for preschoolers who have struggled with

behavioral and emotional difficulties and may have been removed from other preschools. Seneca’s preschool fosters

the growth of each child’s potential for learning, creativity, and social-emotional development in a safe and

nurturing environment. The program’s therapeutic milieu incorporates a careful balance of structure and free play

that supports each child in building a bridge to great emotional stability and in preparing to attend mainstream

kindergarten.

Non-Public School/Day Treatment Provided in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties

Seneca’s non-public school programs (K-12) provide enriched special education services for students with

exceptional needs. Our special education services, which are integrated with mental health day treatment services,

help students accelerate their academic progress and develop the skills needed to successfully transition back into a

public-school setting. Each student’s unique needs and goals are addressed through a personalized treatment plan

that includes individual, group, and family therapy, supported by intensive case management and crisis intervention

services.

Public School Based Programs Provided across multiple counties throughout the Bay Area, Central Coast and

Southern California

Seneca partners with local school districts to provide therapeutic classrooms and mental health services on public

school campuses. Each student’s unique needs and goals are addressed through a personalized treatment plan that

includes individual, group, and family therapy, supported by case management and crisis intervention services.

Program services are designed and tailored to enable each student to make the most of his/her education.

FAMILY FINDING AND ENGAGEMENT

Statewide (with trainings across the U.S., Australia, United Kingdom and British Columbia)

Seneca provides Family Finding and Engagement services for children placed or enrolled in many of its programs.

Family Finding and Engagement is a practice developed by Kevin Campbell that offers methods and strategies to

locate and engage the relatives of children who are living in out-of-home care. The goal of Family Finding and

Engagement is to provide each child with the life-long connections that only a family can offer. Core beliefs of this

approach are that (1) every child has a family; (2) loneliness can be devastating and particularly felt by foster

children; (3) meaningful connections to family help a child develop a sense of belonging; and (4) the single most

identified factor contributing to positive outcomes for children involves meaningful connections and lifelong

relationships with family.

The agency initially partnered with Kevin Campbell to create the Center for Family Finding and Engagement and

Youth Connectedness, which has been merged with the California Permanency for Youth Project into the current

National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness (NIPFC). The goals of NIPFC are (1) to connect our most

isolated youth to family members who can love and support them; (2) to design and implement technology to track

Family Finding and Engagement progress and outcomes; and (3) to advocate for changes in larger systems of care

that will promote family unity and lifelong connections for children.

SENECA INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED PRACTICE

Statewide

The Seneca Institute for Advanced Practice (SIAP) was created to facilitate the training of Seneca employees, so

that the highest quality of care is provided to California’s most severely troubled children and families. SIAP

provides extensive training to all new employees, as well as ongoing in-service, clinical, and management trainings,

with the goal of continually improving the ability of staff to provide excellent care that is informed by new

developments in the field, including evidence-based practices. In recent years, a partnership with Chabot-Las Positas

Community College District and multiple counties has allowed Seneca to expand the audience of its trainings to

include not only agency employees, but any professional serving youth in out-of-home care.

Seneca's Agency Leadership and Boards

AGENCY LEADERSHIP

Ken Berrick, CEO

Ken Berrick is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Seneca Family of Agencies, a nonprofit agency

dedicated to providing Unconditional Care to children and families through comprehensive mental health, education,

juvenile justice, placement and permanency services. Since its founding in 1985, Seneca has developed innovative

programs ranging from Wraparound and Intensive Treatment Foster Care, to integrated mental health services in

schools, and a crisis continuum of care for youth and their families. Mr. Berrick is a Governor’s Appointee on the

California Child Welfare Council, a two-time former President of the California Alliance of Child and Family

Services, member of the CEO Council for the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and serves on

numerous policy planning groups in California at both the county and state-level. He is an elected member and

President of the Alameda County Board of Education, and Past-President of the California County Boards of

Education. In 2014, he was recognized by California Mental Health Advocates for Children and Youth as Advocate

of the Year. In 2017, he was a recipient of the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award. He is co-author of the

books, Unconditional Care: Relationship-Based, Behavioral Intervention with Vulnerable Children and Families

(Oxford University Press, 2010), and Unconditional Education (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Katherine West, COO

Katherine West, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at Seneca Family of Agencies, became involved in

the agency in January of 1996. Since its inception in 1985, Seneca has provided unconditional care and support to

thousands of children struggling with learning disabilities and life circumstances that interfered with their capacity

to succeed. Seneca currently partners with families, school districts, and counties throughout California to provide

the critical supports and services that children and families need to succeed in their homes, communities, and

schools. Over the past eighteen years, Katherine has played an integral role in the dramatic expansion of our school-

based and community-based services for court dependents, court wards, and young people referred by county mental

health departments. Well versed in the financial sphere, Katherine has successfully managed Seneca’s consistently

increasing budget, which now sits at $80,000,000. Prior to her role at Seneca, Katherine was chief financial officer

for Families First, which provides comprehensive treatment programs for youth in Northern and Central California.

Janet Briggs, CFO

Janet Briggs, Chief Financial Officer of Seneca Family of Agencies, began her endeavor in finance by achieving her

bachelors’ degree in Business Economics with an Accounting Emphasis from the University of California Santa

Barbara. Janet began her career in Public Accounting working in various industries gaining extensive experience in

accounting and business management and then specializing in providing audit and accounting services for various

not for profit social service agencies. As a CPA, Janet performed financial and OMB 133A audits for various

agencies with budgets ranging from $500,000 to $35,000,000 annually. This in-depth understanding of accounting

issues and regulations unique to not for profit agencies has distinguished Janet as a knowledgeable source and leader

for this company. Since coming to Seneca in 2002, Janet has supervised and trained an ever-growing accounting

staff on various accounting policies and procedures pertaining to Seneca programs. Not only does she review and

monitor numerous county and state contracts, Janet also oversees all fiscal activity for over 60 programs in 12

different counties. Attending monthly fiscal program meetings, Janet is dedicated to effectively communicating with

directors and managing the financial integrity of Seneca. In an effort to constantly improve practice and

management skills, Janet regularly attends conferences. In addition to her successes here at Seneca Family of

Agencies, Janet also is a mother to two wonderful boys and has held several positions on PTA School Boards.

Board of Directors Bay Area Leadership Board

Neil Gilbert, Chair Rochelle "Shelley" Benning

Ken Berrick, President Jamie Church

Crosby Allison, Vice President Jason Citron

Dion Aroner, Secretary Benjamin Clyde

Geoffrey LePlastrier, Treasurer Zach Cohen

Rochelle "Shelley" Benning, Member Maggie Ferrill

Jeff Davi, Member Joanne Hagopian

Gwen Foster, Member Zach Hill

Sylvia Pizzini, Member Dwayne Redmon

Nancy Peña, Member

Central Coast Leadership Board San Luis Obispo Leadership Board Jeff Davi, Chair Kathleen Marcove, Chair

Kelly Davi Shaun Hawley

Linda Dorris Jeanne Hunt

Wendy Eales Keisha Sizemore

Gary Falkoff Melinda Staley

Paula Faulkoff

Susan Guidotti

Deborah Juran

Marti McKim

Nicki Pasculli

J.P Puette

Miles Stearman

Gary Walter

Karen Worthington

Orange County Leadership Board Orange County Advisory Board Geoffrey LePlastrier, Chair John Evans, Chair

Albin Gess Jim Bieber

Sharyn L. Buffa Patrick Dirk

Marice DePasquale Carole Geronsin

Sam DePoy Hon. Evelyn Hart

Mary Dirk Harald Herrmann

Roger Grad Don Jacobs

Carl Neisser Sinan Kanatsiz

William Pugh Erin Lastinger

Dustin Steeve Hon. Al Murray

Vanessa Vigoren Hon. Kris Murray

Harry Winters Pat Poss

Jim Riley

Tom Rogers

Ernesto Vasquez

Hon. Tom Wilson

Washington Leadership Board Blake Lawson

Seneca's Mission and Service Philosophy

Seneca Family of Agencies helps children and families through the most difficult times of their lives.

In many cases, we are the last hope for young people who have come to see failure and discouragement

as a way of life. Here at Seneca, we offer each child a simple but profound promise: You will be

supported every step of the way, no matter what challenges you face.

By supporting each child and family in identifying and building upon their resources and strengths, we

enable them to approach the future with renewed optimism and a stronger sense of the possibilities for

creating a new and different story for their lives.

Mission

Unconditional Care | Helping children and families through the most difficult times of their lives.

Service Philosophy Seneca Family of Agencies is a leading innovator in the field of education, community-based and

family-focused treatment services for children and families. Seneca’s success with the most challenging

children rests upon the agency’s commitment to five core service principles:

Unconditional Care Once accepted into care, no child is ejected from Seneca due to challenging behaviors or service needs.

Seneca tailor’s treatment and support services to address those behaviors and meet those needs, even as

they change over time. (For more information on Unconditional Care and Seneca’s book.)

Parent-Driven, Strength-Based Service Planning At Seneca, we form partnerships with parents and focus on families’ strengths and competencies when

planning and delivering services.

Individualized Care To enable troubled children to succeed at home, at school and in the community, Seneca works with

each child and family to design and provide an individualized package of services tailored to meet their

unique needs and circumstances.

Cultural Competence Seneca’s culturally and ethnically diverse team of professional’s respect client strengths, talents and

cultural heritage, working with each child and family in the context of their histories and experience.

Interagency Collaboration Seneca staff work closely with county agencies, school districts, and other community-based providers

to ensure that children and families receive the supportive services they need to achieve lasting success.

For further discussions please contact the following:

Ken Berrick: CEO Seneca Family of Agencies

David Silberstein: Silverstone Commercial

408-781-4954

David@silverstonecommercial.com

SILVERSTONE COMMERCIAL.

David Silberstein Principal/Broker Phone: 408-781-4954 BRE #01880860

AGREED AND ACCEPTED BY

SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES LESSOR: PRESIDIO TRUST

BY: BY:

CEO: KEN BERRICK

Date: June 24, 2018 Date: