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FamilyWorks focuses on early intervention and prevention services, enabling people of all ages and circumstances to improve communication, build compassion, increase self-awareness and learn essential life-skills.

Description:
FamilyWorks serves people of all ages and stages of personal and family development, including adults in the workplace and children in school.

Services Include:

Life-Skills & Parenting Support Services:
Provide assistance to clients of social service agencies, including Regional Centers, in meeting life's challenges and enhancing parenting skills.

Phychotherapy Services:
For teens, families, couples and individual adults and children, facusing on positive solutions that works best for each family's and individual's needs.

Parenting Education:
Classes teach and practice FamilyWorks' practical, effective and time-tested tools. They help parents create a more peaceful and enjoyable family life, and enhance the growth and development of children.

History:
FamilyWorks is known for its development of innovative and effective programs that have strengthened families and communities over the past three decades. Examples of FamilyWorks pioneering programs are:

1978 Established Marin’s first Parenting Center

1981 Established Marin’s first Family Center and was also selected by the March of Dimes to provide perinatal programs for Spanish speaking families.

1989 Chosen by the Golden Gate Regional Center and the State of California to develop and provide the first Parenting Education Services for parents and children with developmental disabilities in the Bay Area.

1991 Founded the FamilyWorks Counseling Center, psychotherapist training program, and the county’s first Temperament Education Center.

1993 Established SAVE Kids’ Supervised Visitation Center – another Marin first – offering vital services to high-conflict families.

1999 Established Marin’s first Temperament Training Institute

2001 Sponsored the highly popular outdoor summer family film festival, Film Night in the Park, as a project.

2002 Expanded FamilyNews to FamilyWorks Magazine, reaching 50,000 readers each month.

2004 Established the Families of the Year Award, including the Family Friendly Business of the Year Award.

2005 Formed F.I.R.S.T. (FamilyWorks Inspiration, Resource & Support Team), a volunteer team that supports projects and increases community awareness of our services.

Over the years FamilyWorks’ pioneering services have been woven into the fabric of the community, while new services are developed to meet families’ changing needs.

Contact people:

Candy Fraser, Administrative Assistant, (phone), (email) Katherine Arnsbarger, Program Coordinator, (phone), (email) Mary Jane DeWolf-Smith, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Address:

4 Joseph Court San Rafael, CA 94903 (See a map)