OVERVIEW
The Youth, Family and Senior Services Department provides community outreach as well as family counseling for youth and families to enhance family functioning. Seniors receive advocacy and navigation assistance with government entitlement programs in addition to emotional support, social engagement opportunities and limited transportation services. Additionally, vulnerable seniors receive case management services. These City senior services are provided to support seniors’ self-determination and autonomy.
More than 4,000 families have been helped since 1974.
We welcome families and seniors regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability. Our department works with youth and seniors who are dealing with a variety of issues including but not limited to bullying, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+, transgender, grief/loss, and social challenges.
Ms. Kiaisha Barber, Director of Youth, Family and Senior Services, has been appointed as the Diversity and Inclusion Liaison to the City Manager. In this capacity she will be responsible to look at City policies and services through a diversity and inclusion lens and speak up when a City policy might, unintentionally, exclude residents who are LGBTQ, handicapped, ethnic or racial minorities, or otherwise perceived as different. She will also be a friendly ear to residents who want to bring such issues to the City government and who are afraid they will be dismissed or misunderstood.