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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.
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