Professional help is available for individuals, couples and families experiencing difficulties in areas such as marital problems, relationship concerns, parent/child conflicts, separation/divorce, and aging issues.

Services include initial evaluations, outpatient treatment, referrals to inpatient alcohol treatment facilities, codependency counseling and aftercare support. An extensive program for Adult Children of Alcoholics provides therapy groups life education workshops and individual counseling.

EAP Services include individual, marital, or family counseling to employees and/or their dependents, assessments and referrals to drug/alcohol treatment facilities, management training in early detection of problems, and case management. Services offered through contracts with businesses and organizations.

This program provides individual and group counseling to children at-risk of school failure and their families who attend the Christopher Columbus Elementary School in the Chester Upland School District.

STAP is a program for grandparents raising grandchildren due to parental drug/alcohol or mental health problems. Services include case management, counseling, and separate educational/support and therapy groups for grandparents and grandchildren.

FCS partners with the Delaware County Housing Authority by providing intensive case management services to single adults or families with children who have been homeless due to mental health or substance abuse problems. Selected candidates are provided with Housing Choice vouchers which can be used to secure an apartment within the County. Intensive case management services assist clients with budgeting, household management, attendance at appointments with treatment providers, and other individual client goals.

Case management services are provided to income-eligible disabled adults. Services include initial assessment, identification of service needs and resources, coordination of services including health care, housing, socialization, transportation and advocacy with other service providers. Disabilities include both physical, emotional and cognitive.

Case management, counseling, support groups, education and advocacy are provided to persons living with HIV and AIDS, their family members and loved ones.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Education presentations are provided to students attending Delaware County School Districts, colleges and to any other interested groups or organizations.

This program provides supportive, transitional housing for twelve men living with HIV/AIDS. The project assists residents to gain skills needed to manage their health more effectively, and to become able to live independently and self-sufficiently. Residents may stay in the program up to eighteen months before moving on to permanent, independent housing.

The project is named for Ralph Moses, a lifelong Chester resident, HIV/AIDS activist and person living with AIDS. Ralph currently works as a driver for the AIDS CARE Group and is a member of the Board of Directors of FCS.

This program administers the distribution of emergency food through a network of social service agencies and church-based emergency food centers. The program is a collaborative venture of FCS and the members of the former Interfaith Coalition of Food Centers.

These group series are designed to enrich individual and family living. They provide information and support during life transitions, as well as specific skills for enhancing individual functioning and family relationships. Held at the Agency and in community sites, examples of some workshop titles are: positive parenting, dealing with grief, adjusting to separation and divorce, stress management and adult children of alcoholics.

A traumatic incident at home, school or work can have far-reaching results. Individuals often feel out of control or powerless. Some experience physical or psychological reactions. This service provides immediate response from a team of professionals skilled in dealing with these consequences of crisis situations. Services include: preventive planning, onsite post-trauma debriefing, trauma education and counseling.