Kinship is my family. Over the years they've helped me raise my grandchildren and helped us to find a resource for everything we need." John, 72 years and caring for 2 grandchildren
Welcome to the Edgewood Family Support Programs!
Kinship & The Edgewood Family Resource Center
Serving the greater Bay Area
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Have you stepped up to take care of your grandchild or another relative's child?
The Kinship Program provides supportive services that sustain safe and permanent placements for kinship foster youth within their families and communities of origin. Kinship services strengthen the entire kinship family, thereby increasing permanency for kin children, improving the resourcefulness and efficacy of relative caregivers, and mitigating the effects of trauma for kin children. The Kinship Program serves formal and informal kinship families is San Francisco and San Mateo counties where the kin child is between the ages of 0 – 18 years old Children who stay with grandparents or relatives instead of going into foster care do much better in school and at home. The Kinship Program provides a vast array of supportive services, including case management, support groups, caregiver training, respite, food pantry, mental health treatment, basic needs supplies, and community nursing support. Our Outcomes:
Funded by the San Francisco Human Services Agency, Department of Aging and Adult Services, The Sutter Foundation, The Grovsner Foundation, Ticket to A Dream Foundation, Peninsula Healthcare District, the Campini Foundation, and other private funders. 
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The Edgewood Family Resource Center is a safe place for families to come together and get the support and resources they need to raise their children. We partner with families and other community-based organizations to strengthen families and neighborhoods for children. The Edgewood Family Resources serves San Francisco families with at least one child under the age of 18 years. The center is located in the Bayview Hunter’s Point community and does targeted outreach to families in that neighborhood, especially families in public housing Services include food and basic needs pantry, parent/caregiver support groups, parenting courses, parent-child interactive activities, case management, mental health treatment, visitation supervision, resource library, family fun nights, summer field trips, cultural celebrations, and Enhanced Case Management. Services are provided in English, Spanish, and Chinese. 
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