Raul Benitez
Social Worker/Group Facilitator at Families Uniting Families - Long Beach, CA, United States
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["7143913384"]
Long Beach,California,United States
Families Uniting Families
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Families Uniting Families
Long Beach, CA, United States • 11 - 50 EmployeesNonprofit Organization Management
FUF works to cultivate nurturing and knowledgeable families to protect and meaningfully enhance the welfare and stability of vulnerable children and their families. FUF was awarded CARF International accreditation as of November 2017 for our Foster Family Agency program. Families Uniting Families (FUF), led by James M. Schrage, was founded in 2004 as a unique response to provide additional foster families in Los Angeles and Orange Counties; but, more specifically, families who were interested in working with youth 14-21 at a time when most were uninterested due to the extensive needs and volatility of the adolescent youth in the system. The need for families who could provide quality care to the teenage population has always been an important distinction here at FUF and our commitment to this particular population has never wavered.By the summer of 2004, Families Uniting Families was licensed by the State of California (LIC# 197804605) to begin preparing certified foster families. By December, FUF was officially certified both as a 501 c 3 and a State of California charity exempt organization. The agency was also awarded contracts in Los Angeles and Orange Counties to provide foster family agency services.In 2010, FUF was awarded a federal grant through Children's Institute Inc. to initiate Project Fatherhood–a father focused intervention that utilizes an open group method to improve parenting through the initiation of the father's positive presence, both with himself and in his family. Since its inception, our Project Fatherhood program has worked with over 100 men and is qualified as an approved parenting program by the LA County Children's Court.Today, FUF has safely provided care in our foster care program for over 700 children. FUF is also a state licensed adoption agency (LIC#197806407) that allows us to certify adoptive [resource] families to care for children who need a permanent family.