Accreditations/Credentials

 

Foster Assessment Center & Testing Service, Inc (FACTS) has been recognized as one of the few assessment centers to meet CARF accreditations standards throughout Southern California. CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) is a nationally recognized certification that ensures the facility has ample diagnostic testing and assessment equipment, ample testing space, trained assessment staff, meets all ADA guidelines, and has professional assessment procedures in place at all our centers. The accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization's substantial conformance to the CARF standards. Our latest accreditation is the fifth consecutive three-year accreditation that the international body has awarded to FACTS.

 

FACTS maintains a management strategy that ensures a high level of customer satisfaction as all of our centers are accredited and directed by CARF Accreditation Standards. Specifically, CARF promotes organizational quality by reviewing a company's policies, directives and results in the following areas:

 

      A.  Policy on Input from the Person Served

      B.  Organization's Policy on Accessibility

      C.  Standards Supporting Organization's Policy on Outcomes

      D.  Organization's Policy on Rights, Health, and Safety

      E.  Organization's Policy on Human Resource Development

      F.  Standards Supporting the Organization's Policy on Leadership

      G.  Organization's Policy on Legal Requirements

      H.  Standards supporting the Organization's Policy on Financial Planning and Management

 

Foster Assessment Center & Testing Service, Inc (FACTS) is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) at its following centers:

      Anaheim

      Bakersfield

      Long Beach

      Los Angeles

      Palmdale

      Reseda

      Thousand Oaks

 

FACTS' policy statement for each of the above noted directives are available for review by any agency contracting with, or referring clients to FACTS. Many FACTS assessors are Certified Vocational Evaluation Specialists (CVEs). This is the highest level nationally recognized certification administered by the national CCWAVES Board, which requires work experience, specific college coursework in a counseling-related field, a related BA or MA, review of work product and continuing educational units to maintain certification. FACTS' has numerous CVE's (the most of any agency in California) and all other assessors are currently completing the four years of work experience required prior to eligibility for certification.

 

Foster Assessment Center & Testing Service's (FACTS) minimum qualifications to serve as an Assessor include a four-year college degree as well as 15 hours in career counseling related coursework as well as three hours specifically in career counseling/guidance. FACTS assessors must be either fully bilingual in Spanish with a B.A. or B.S., and/or must have a Masters Degree, generally in Counseling or Vocational Evaluation. Additionally, they receive extensive quarterly training in career guidance, principals of test usage and assessment methodology.