Felton Institute
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Katharine Felton
Katharine Conway "Kitty" Felton is a name that became synonymous with social work for her innovative reforms over the 40 years of her tenure as head of Associated Charities in San Francisco beginning at the turn of the 19th century....
, Family Service Agency
Family Service Agency of San Francisco
Family Service Agency of San Francisco was founded in 1889 as Associated Charities by Katharine Felton . FSASF is the oldest nonsectarian, nonprofit charitable social-services provider in the City and County of San Francisco...
's pioneering founding director, the Felton Institute for Excellence in Clinical Training provides intensive clinical training in Evidence based practice
Evidence based practice
Evidence-based practice is an interdisciplinary approach gaining ground after 1992. It started in medicine as evidence-based medicine and spread to other fields such as nursing, psychology, education, library and information science and other fields...
to address complex mental-health and clinical social work issues.
Untreated and under-treated mental illness is strongly correlated with myriad other social problems, including homelessness, high medical-care costs, drug abuse and addiction, and poverty. But research demonstrates that – if met with the best and most appropriate treatments – even severe mental illness can become a manageable condition for most people, opening the way to recovery.
The Felton Institute serves Family Service Agency of San Francisco as a central resource in the implementation of Evidence based practice in every element of clinical social work and mental health service delivery, to maximize client recovery. Drawing on the nation’s best teachers and clinicians, classes are taught by the very professors and clinicians who developed the original treatment methods.