We are a family of human services agencies providing help and hope to those who struggle with abuse, neglect, trauma, mental health challenges, educational difficulties, employment, and service navigation. But other things do. In 1829 we provided a warm bed, a good meal, and a safe place to grow up. Today we’re working to end the stigma around mental health care and help those in our care become healthy, happy, self-sufficient adults. Today the help we provide might be telemental health counseling provided by a professional 100 miles away. It might be a family receiving a host of integrated services to help keep their child safe. It could be the support a young adult needs to find and keep the first job they’ve ever had—and it still could be that warm, safe place to live while a child heals and grows. Northern Rivers Family of Services hasn’t just changed with the times. We have led a service delivery revolution to meet the varied, changing, complex needs of children, adults, families, and communities. People still come to us for care, but now we prioritize going out into the community to help, providing services in homes, schools, even the neighborhood coffee shops. We’re coordinating care, bundling services, and developing comprehensive treatment plans that don’t just treat the symptom; we work to address the reasons people need help in the first place.
