Early Intervention

2008 RESOURCE GUIDE
Section 2. Local and State Resources:
EARLY INTERVENTION
(A » in front of the Agency name denotes an Early Start early intervention program.)
Agency Name & Address	Contact Information	Program Description
Asian Perinatal Advocates (APA) 730 Commercial Street San Francisco, CA 94108	Tel:(415) 616-9797 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 616-9796	APA is a child abuse and domestic violence prevention program specifically for immigrant Asian families with children 0-5 years of age. APA provides biweekly/monthly in-home support programs, psycho-social assessment and early intervention, counseling, support groups and family support services to monolingual Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian and Filipino families in S.F.
E-mail: apa@apasfgh.org Web site:www.apasfgh.org/
» Blind Babies Foundation 1200 Gough St. San Francisco, CA 94109	Tel: (415) 771-5464 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 771-9026	Blind Babies Foundation provides home-based early intervention services to infants and preschool children who are blind, visually impaired or multihandicapped and visually impaired, and their families. Support services include home visits and accompanying families to medical and educational assessments.
E-mail: bbfinfo@blindbabies.org Web site : www.blindbabies.org
» California Pacific Medical Center: Child Development Center 1625 Van Ness, 3rd floor (at California St.) San Francisco, CA	Tel: (415) 750-6200 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 752-9068	Assessment and treatment program for infants and children with or at risk for development disorders. Multidisciplinary staff. Medical consultation.
E-mail: N/A Web site:www.cpmc.org/advanced/pediatrics/services/CDC-services.html
Chinatown Child Development Center 720 Sacramento St. San Francisco, CA 94108	Tel: (415) 392-4453 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 433-0953	Provides evaluation, counseling and treatment for children 0-14 with emotional problems and/or developmental delay. Also offers parent groups, parent counseling.
E-mail: N/A Web site: N/A
Early Head Start c/o Wu Yee Children’s Services 888 Clay St. San Francisco, CA 94108	Tel: (415) 391-1355 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 391-1074	Provides education, health, mental health, nutrition and social services. to pregnant women and children 0-3 years old. Early Head Start offers services through 3 options: Home-Based, Center-Based and Family Childcare.
E-mail: N/A Web site: N/A
» Easter Seals of the Bay Area Early Intervention Program 95 Hawthorne St. San Francisco, CA 94105	Tel: (415) 744-8754 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 744-8717	Early intervention program providing speech, occupational and physical therapies along with special education services for children 0-3 who are developmentally delayed.
E-mail: N/A Web site: N/A
» Family Services Agency: Integrated Special Needs Program of Family Development Center 2730 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94110	Tel: (415) 282-1090 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 282-1735	Offers an integrated center-based program for children birth to 3 with special needs. Occupational and physical therapy are offered on site through California Children's Services (CCS).
E-mail: N/A Web site: N/A
ICC - California Department of Developmental Services Interagency Coordinating Council 1600 - 9th St., Rm. 310 Sacramento, CA 95814	Tel: (916) 654-1596 TDD: (916) 654-2054 Fax: (916) 654-3255	Implementing a statewide, interagency system of coordinated, comprehensive interdisciplinary early intervention services. Includes parents of children with disabilities who have knowledge and experience with early intervention programs, early intervention service providers, other participating state agencies, a representative of personnel development, the State legislature and the State Office of Insurance. Provides information and resources Specialized materials through lending library and the Early Intervention collection. and publications.
E-mail: N/A Web site: N/A
Infant Development Association of California (IDA) P.O. Box 189550 Sacramento, CA 95818	Tel: (916) 453-8801 TDD: N/A Fax: (916) 453-0627	IDA is a multidisciplinary organization of parents and professionals committed to optimal developmental, social and emotional outcomes for infants, birth to three, with a broad range of special needs and their families. IDA advocates for improved, effective prevention and early intervention services and provides information, education and training.
E-mail: idaofcal@softcom.net Web site: N/A
Infant Parent Program @ SF General Hospital 2550 23rd St., Bldg. 9, #130 San Francisco, CA 94110	Tel: (415) 206-5270 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 206-4722	A mental health program for children under 3 years and their parents when concerns exist about the child-parent relationship or the child's emotional functioning. Parents and children seen together by a therapist, usually in the family's home.
E-mail: N/A Web site: N/A
» Presidio Early Intervention Program Infant Preschool Program Bldg. 387, Main Post, Presidio San Francisco, CA 94102	Tel: (415) 561-5825 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 561-5711	SF Unified School District's early intervention program. Child development is assessed and facilitated across all behavioral areas. Staff members include special education teachers, occupational therapist, physical therapist, speech/language therapist, social worker and trained paraprofessionals.
E-mail: N/A Web site: N/A
» Hearing & Speech Center of Northern California 1234 Divisadero St. San Francisco, CA 94115	Tel: (415) 921-7658 TDD: (415) 921-8990 Fax: (415) 921-2243	Private, non-profit hearing and speech facility. Offers a full range of audiologic/speech/ language evaluations and therapy. Non-public school for hearing/language handicapped children.
E-mail: info@hearingspeech.org Web site:www.hearingspeech.org
» St. Luke’s Hospital 3555 Cesar Chavez St. San Francisco, CA 94110	Tel: See Program Description TDD: Fax: N/A	Early intervention services, providing speech, occupational and physical therapies on a one-to-one basis for children 0-3 who are developmentally delayed or at risk for delay. For information about speech therapy: (415) 641-6720. For information about occupational and physical therapy: (415) 641-6604.
E-mail: N/A Web site: N/A

The resource list above is for your information; it is not necessarily comprehensive and is not an endorsement of the services offered. If you find that any of the information is incorrect, if you would like to offer any feedback, or if you know of additional resources that may be helpful to include in the future, please let us know. You can call us at (415) 920-5040, e-mail us at info@supportforfamilies.org or write to us c/o Open Gate, 2601 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110. Thank you to all the agencies who completed our Request for Information form and thank you as well to community resource databases such as Helplink and the San Francisco Public Library Community Connection for lending valuable assistance.