Program areas at Lincoln
Community and School Based Service - Lincoln's Community & School Based Services include:* HOPE (Helping Open Pathways to Education) - early intervention mental services so that students can thrive in their community school.* Project Permanence - wraparound program focusing on supporting permanently placed foster youth into stable family homes and youth on probation back to their families with focus on avoiding continued involvement with the justice system.* EXCEL - continuum of behavioral and mental services for students in Special Ed in Alameda County & Contra Costa County.* Multidimensional Family Therapy - evidence-based family therapy model that provides youth with substance abuse issues supports within the natural structures of a client's life, working clinically with the adolescent, parent/caregiver, family, and extra-familial domains, including schools, community and the justice systems.* School Engagement School Engagement - supports students who are chronically absent and their families work through the emotional, behavioral and systemic issues interfering with school attendance. * Therapeutic Behavior Services (TBS) - short-term behavioral mental health service offered in collaboration with other services to support youth who are at risk of out of home placement.* Intensive Home Based Services (IHBS) - in home and community supports to stabilize placement and family dynamics.* EXCEL SDC - provides milieu support and mental health services to students enrolled in an Intensive Counseling Enriched classroom.
Training - Lincoln Training Institute provides training to employees and other child-serving organizations through a Title IV-E training contract. It also provides clinical, management and education-related training that are fee-based.
Kinship - provides kin caregivers and their children with case management, information and referrals, support groups, children's activity group, respite care, tutoring and educational seminars.
Other programs include:* ECMH Programs provide consultation to teachers and parents, utilize screening tools to assess for healthy development, and provide parent child dyadic therapy.* FRCs in East and West Oakland build on the strengths of families and develop their capacity for supporting the healthy development and educational objectives of their children.* Freedom Schools is a 6-week summer literacy and cultural enrichment program.* West Oakland Initiative is an early intervention coaching and family literacy program designed to build literacy and improve attendance.