Family Support Services (FSS) is committed to providing support to parents by offering childcare services to accommodate family’s needs.
FSS has been providing over 30 years, keeping families healthy and intact. childcare for the children of “essential workers”.
Our programs offer Respite/Child Care (day or night) in the family’s home, a licensed family day care home, and community sites.
Services are available to:
Resource Family Approval (RFA)
The Respite Child Care (RFA) Program in San Francisco is a free service available to all San Francisco-certified RFA parents who reside in and outside San Francisco city and county. Respite Child Care services are provided by licensed providers and caregivers at a:
- License Family Day Care Homes, and Certified RFA caregivers
- Day, night, and weekends.
- Family’s home by one of our program’s Family Support Specialists.
- Day hours only (between 8am-6pm)
Emergency Backup & Mildly Ill Program (EBU)
The Emergency Backup Program (EBU) & Mildly Ill, offers child care for children 0-12 years’ old. Accessible for families who are actively engaged in school, work, or training/ welfare to work activities within the CalWORKs and Rapid Response programs. To ensure CalWORKs families have the ability to maintain continuity in childcare services when their existing provider is temporarily unavailable.
Respite Child Care services are provided by licensed providers and caregivers at a:
- License Family Day Care Homes
- Day, night, and weekends.
- Family’s home by one of our program’s Family Support Specialists.
- Day hours only (between 8am-6pm)
- Community sites
Hence, services are based on provider availability. Our program is first come, first serve.
If you are interesting in becoming a client, or learn how be become a provider and apply.
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For more information, or to make a referral:
Please call our Respite Coordinators at (415) 861-4060