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DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2012-2013 City of San Leandro Page 15  DSFRC’s Community Counseling Program provides crisis intervention and short-term counseling to individuals, couples, families, children/youth, and seniors and groups. The groups provided include parenting skills, tools to manage anxiety and depression. Individuals and families facing personal and familial challenges receive mental health support in confidential settings that enable them to develop tools and skills to deal with the challenging situations and to improve the quality of their lives. For FY 2012-2013, fifty-six (56) San Leandro individuals (in group, family, couples or individual sessions) received crisis intervention and/or short-term community counseling services and access to eligible family resource center services.  Girls, Inc. Pathways Counseling Center’s Family Strengthening Program delivers mental health services at five (5) San Leandro Unified School District schools, specifically including Washington Elementary School. Mental Health Clinicians conduct clinical assessments, provide individual and group therapy sessions, and offer consultation services that assist students in succeeding in school by addressing their emotional and behavioral problems that interfere with their learning. For FY 2012-2013, a total of 112 assessments and therapy appointments were provided for twenty-one (21) Washington Elementary students, out of which fourteen (14) students were extremely-low income, four (4) students were very low-income, two (2) students were low-income, and one (1) student were moderate-income.  Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments’ (SAVE) Community Oriented Prevention Services (COPS) Programs is a partnership between SAVE and the San Leandro Police Department (as well as with the police departments of Hayward, Fremont, and Union City) working to prevent and reduce domestic violence and to provide services to victims and their children. SAVE promotes alternatives to domestic violence through support services, advocacy, and education. SAVE also helps domestic violence victims and their families end the cycle of violence by providing crisis intervention services that include crisis counseling, domestic violence education, case management, and restraining order assistance. In FY 2012-2013, COPS Advocates provided crisis intervention services, education, and/or referrals to 235 San Leandro residents. SAVE also presented its Teen Dating Violence Program, which educates and increases awareness of teen dating violence issues, to 4,734 students of high schools throughout Alameda County.  SOS/Meals on Wheels’ Meal Delivery Service program provides uncurtailed delivery of warm, nutritious, and balanced meals to homebound seniors who are over 60 years of age and unable to purchase or prepare food for themselves. Meal delivery drivers also provide daily check-in to ensure the health and safety of each senior receiving their meal. Throughout FY 2012-2013, 144 homebound seniors were served with hot and nutritious meals.