Our Partners
Seneca Family of Agencies
The mission of Seneca Family of Agencies (Seneca) is to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Seneca was founded in 1985 out of a deeply held conviction that youth and families do not fail, but rather are failed by public systems unable to address their complex and specialized needs. Over the past 34 years, Seneca's unwavering belief in the potential of all youth has led to the organization's growth from a day treatment and residential program to a provider of a robust continuum of community-based and family-focused services that are designed to comprehensively and responsively meet the needs of the most vulnerable and under-served children, youth, and families.
Seneca’s commitment to do whatever it takes to support young people and families to heal and thrive has been developed into a highly articulated treatment approach that forms the basis of all Seneca programs. The Unconditional Care model (published in 2010 by Oxford Press) integrates attachment, learning, and systems theories and provides tools to assess and address youth’s complex relational, behavioral, and ecological needs. From this foundation, Seneca has developed the Unconditional Education model with a primary objective of building the capacity of schools to meet students' academic, social-emotional, and behavioral needs so as to increase the achievement of students most readily disenfranchised by the existing education system. The model has been codified in the recently released book, Unconditional Education: Supporting Schools to Serve all Students (2019, Oxford University Press). Today, the agency’s range of child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and education services reach more than 17,000 youth and their families in over 150 distinct programs across 18 California counties and three counties in Washington state.
Kinship Center
Kinship Center builds adoptive and other families where children can heal from past abuse or neglect and grow to healthy adulthood. They help 2,500 children each year, mostly those whom many others consider too difficult: severely traumatized children, older teenagers, children with disabilities, large sibling groups, and drug affected infants. Every child deserves a family, and Kinship Center makes it happen.