The Family Connection has moved!

Please join us at our next volunteer training:

Tuesday: June 29 and July 6
6:00 - 9:00 pm

The trainings are located at our new location:

Vida Nueva, 705 Rohnert Park Expressway, map

Please call Glen Weaver at 585-6500, the Director of The Family Connection program, for more information. When you call, please tell us if you are a student.

Training Topics

• A Former Client Tells Her Story
• Who We Serve, Addictions and Domestic Violence
• The Nuts and Bolts of Working with a Family
• Goal Setting, Parenting and Financial Issues

The Family Connection is a human services program that trains and supervises volunteer mentor teams to be effective personal support networks for families with children transitioning out of homelessness. The program’s intent is to have a long-term effect that reaches beyond emergency services to help break the cycle of multi-generational poverty and its consequences.

Our volunteers help their families in many ways. Working with them for a one year period for an average of two hours a week, they may help find affordable housing, provide transportation or childcare, and/or act as resources for a variety of living skills.

The practical, emotional and social support provided by the volunteers is invaluable to the long-term stability and success of the family. The caring and commitment of community members provide our clients with a level of personal support that cannot be duplicated by professional service providers.

Our ultimate goal is to help our families become self-supporting members of our community now and for generations to come.

Please join us in making a real difference in the life of a Sonoma County family.

The Family Connection, a program of COTS