Programs

• S.L.A.T.E
The word stands for Successful Living with Autism through Training and Education. This is our autism program, funded by Far Northern Regional Center and geared around social emotional training. S.L.A.T.E offers learning opportunities for children with autism after school and even in the summer. Learn more about S.L.A.T.E.

• ParentLinks: Hope, Dream, Achieve
This grant allows us to help children birth through 3, referred by Newborn Hearing Screening Centers.

• Respite Care Services
Respite can be an incredible thing for parents of children with autism! Defined as "a delay or cessation for a time, esp. of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief." That's exactly what respite is for parents. Learn more about Respite.

• P.T.I
It stands for Parent Training & Information and is funded by a grant from the United States Department of Education. Rowell Family Empowerment, together with other local agencies, school districts, and the Family Resource Centers, uses this grant in part to collaborate on developing a stronger parent mentor training program. Throughout the greater Northern California region RFENC provides training to interested parents in several areas including advanced special education (laws, regulations, provisions under IDEA including procedural safeguards and alternative dispute methods, etc.), effective communication skills, parent-professional collaboration, local and national resources and services and more.

• F.R.C
Within a specific catchment area of Northern California this grant, from the State Department of Developmental Services, makes RFENC your Family Resource Center and funds us to provide family support services to infants and toddlers and their families, or at risk, ages 0–3. Among these services are parent-to-parent support activities, information dissemination and referral, public awareness, family-professional collaboration, and more.

• F.E.C
This grant from the California Department of Education (CDE) makes us a Family Empowerment Center. CDE funds Rowell Family Empowerment to provide a multitude of services to children with disabilities ages 3–22. The many goals of this grant include getting parents and educators to partner and network with agency professionals in order to improve systems responsiveness and competency in providing services to children with disabilities and their families, training parents to participate as leaders in their child's education, and supporting parents as caregivers and primary decision-makers in their child’s life. Another goal of this grant is that parents would become knowledgeable about special education systems and services, and will become full participants in their child’s education and planning.

• Family Voices of California
Through this program RFENC is a member of a statewide grassroots clearinghouse for information and education about ways to assure and improve health care for children with disabilities and chronic conditions. Family Voices seeks to improve the lives of children with special health care needs in several ways which include improving policies and systems of care, providing information and education to families and professionals regarding health care for children with special health care needs, and more. Family Voices of California was established through the linkage of Family Voices National and the Family Resource Centers Network of California.