Channel Islands Social Services - Company Information

Channel islands social services (ciss) is a family-operated organization located in ventura county, ca. the organization provides free in-home respite care (similar to childcare) in the family's own home and in the local community, as well as independent living services. eligible families and individuals receive funding from tri-counties regional center, north los angeles regional center, or the county of ventura as foster parents or kinship families. we know how stress­ful life can be with­out sup­port from friends and fam­ily. like­wise, all of us need a break from time to time to help us take care of our own needs and to refo­cus so that we can con­tinue to be strong for those who need us. our com­mit­ted team of care­givers spe­cial­izes in pro­vid­ing sup­port to a vari­ety of fam­i­lies includ­ing those car­ing for peo­ple who have devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties (such as but not lim­ited to autism, down syn­drome, cere­bral palsy, and intel­lec­tual dis­abil­i­ties), fos­ter par­ents and kin­ship care­givers of young children. inspi­ra­tion for the orga­ni­za­tion was sparked dur­ing the sum­mer of 2004 when co-founder, sharon m. fran­cis, then direc­tor of com­mu­nity devel­op­ment for tri-counties regional cen­ter, iden­ti­fied the unmet needs of chil­dren with devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties liv­ing in ven­tura county with no local option for respite ser­vices. until then, all agency respite ser­vices had been pro­vided by home health agen­cies offer­ing cna, lvn, or rn ser­vices, or from large l.a.-based multi-service com­pa­nies. the ciss admin­is­tra­tive team is made up of very car­ing and highly expe­ri­enced pro­fes­sion­als who are ded­i­cated to help­ing fam­i­lies. with hun­dreds of amaz­ing respite care­givers employed by ciss, the small admin­is­tra­tive team works tire­lessly to make sure the needs of both fam­i­lies and respite care­givers are being met.

Individual And Family Services