Some emotionally disturbed children, including victims of abuse, will have to wait up to two months to receive counseling because Fresno County botched a contract award, officials say.
Until recently, Fresno County's relationship with Genesis Family Center was defined by contradiction.
Genesis Family Center has abandoned a national search for a new executive officer and named a longtime employee to head the troubled nonprofit social-service agency.
Beleaguered directors of Genesis Family Center are facing new challenges -- including a rebellion by their top managers.
Fresno County officials said for years that Genesis Family Center efficiently provided excellent taxpayer-funded service to vulnerable children.
On the eve of a crucial county vote, Genesis Family Center officials announced Monday they had fired the boyfriend of an agency co-founder and accepted the resignation of another co-founder.
Supervisors will decide Tuesday if Fresno County should end its contracts with Genesis Family Center, a decision that could crush the troubled nonprofit social-service agency.
After the two sisters who founded the Genesis Family Center were convicted of embezzlement last year, the agency's board didn't fire them.
Two sisters convicted of embezzling money from a Fresno nonprofit are fighting the state's efforts to punish them. They have backing from their victim -- Genesis, the social service agency they founded.
The former executive director of the Genesis child welfare agency pleaded no contest Wednesday to drunken driving and was given a jail sentence that runs concurrent with her violation of probation.
Fresno County supervisors Tuesday rejected a contract proposal by Genesis Family Center and told the troubled social-service agency to clean up its act.
A judge on Monday sentenced Elaine Bernard to at least three more months in jail for flouting the terms of her probation by attending social events.
A Fresno County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that convicted child-welfare executive Elaine Bernard violated the rules of her probation when she attended recent social events.
The chief executive officer of Genesis child-welfare agency spent her first night in the downtown Fresno jail chatting with petty thieves and drug addicts and reading a Danielle Steele romance novel.
Elaine Bernard said she knew her no contest plea to a felony embezzlement charge this week would jeopardize her social worker license and her job as chief executive officer of the child welfare agency Genesis.
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