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Individual and Family Counseling

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.

Substance Abuse Treatment

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.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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.

Overcoming Barriers to Opportunity: School-based Counseling Program

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

Second Time Around Parents (STAP)

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.

Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth Ages 10-14

In June 2008, FCS was awarded a four-year grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to implement the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) for Parents and Youth 10-14 with children, and their families, attending schools in the Interboro School District in central Delaware County. SFP is an evidence-based family intervention which enhances parents’ general child management skills, parent-child affective relationships, and family communication. SFP is based on a developmental model and starts with the assumption that increasing the family’s protective processes while decreasing potential risk factors can have a positive impact on a child’s future, with the result that problem behaviors are reduced or avoided. In addition, SFP seeks to delay the onset of adolescent alcohol and substance use by improving family communication and parenting practices.

Permanent Supportive Housing Program

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.

Services to Disabled Adults

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.

HIV/AIDS Case Management and Supportive Services

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 Education Program

HIV/AIDS Prevention Education is provided to adolescents, adults and senior citizens who reside in Delaware County. Presentations are provided to students attending schools in Delaware County school districts, colleges, and to any other interested groups or organizations. FCS offers an HIV prevention presentation specifically tailored to the concerns of senior citizens entitled Over Sixty, Sexy and Susceptible: HIV Information for You and Your Grandchildren. This workshop has been presented to participants at senior centers within the County and is endorsed by the Delaware County Office of Services for the Aging.

The Healthy Relationships HIV Prevention Program is a five-session, small group-level intervention targeted to men and women living with HIV and AIDS. This evidenced-based program, approved and recommended for use by the US Centers for Disease Control, focuses on assisting HIV-positive participants to build skills needed to reduce stress in three key life areas: 1) disclosure of their HIV status to family and friends, 2) disclosure of their status to sex or needle sharing partners, and 3) adopting safer sexual behaviors. Participants learn decision-making and problem-solving skills which enable them to make informed and safe decisions about disclosure and behaviors.

Ralph Moses House - HIV/AIDS Supportive, Transitional Housing Program

The Ralph Moses House, located in Chester, provides supportive, transitional housing for twelve formerly homeless men living with HIV/AIDS. The program connects residents with ongoing medical care and life-sustaining medications, and needed supportive social services. Residents gain skills required to manage their health more effectively and to be able to live as independent and self-sufficient members of the community. Residents may stay in the House for 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 has served as a long-time member FCS’s Board of Directors.

Emergency Food Distribution

This program administers the distribution of emergency food to needy individuals and families through a network of food centers located in churches and faith communities, and social service agencies. FCS provides support to the Delco Interfaith Food Assistance Network (DIFAN), which is structured as an Advisory Committee to FCS’s Board. DIFAN’s eleven member food centers collectively provide food assistance to residents of all of Delaware County’s communities.

The DIFAN member food centers are: Chester Eastside Ministries, New Jerusalem Church (Chester), St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (Chester), Upper Darby Food Center, First United Methodist Church (Media), Church of the Nazarene (Sharon Hill), Mt. Zion CME Church (Sharon Hill), St. Mark’s United Methodist Church (Broomall), Bernardine Center (Chester), True Vine Missionary Full Gospel Baptist Church (Chester), and Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry (Prospect Park).

Trauma/Crisis Intervention Service

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.

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