We are a highly respected mental health and welfare agency with 10 locations throughout Southern California. For over 115 years, we have been dedicated to nurturing hope, healing, and the opportunity to thrive for children, youth, young adults, and families facing serious life challenges. We provide comprehensive array of programs and services - which touch more than 12,000 lives annually - include: residential treatment; transitional shelter care; foster care and adoption; transitional living assistance for emancipated foster youth; outpatient and school-based mental health services; wraparound/in-home services; psychiatric services; psychological testing; grief counseling; educational support services; and afterschool tutoring/enrichment.
Services Offered
Therapeutic Behavioral Services - Provides a one-to-one therapeutic contact between a mental health provider and a child/youth for a specific short period of time. The contacts are designed to maintain the child/youth's residential placement at the lowest appropriate level by resolving target behaviors and achieving short-term treatment goals. The Center for Grief and Loss for Children - Professionally trained therapists and youth specialists are experienced in delivering services that are strengths-based, culturally sensitive, and family-focused. Services can be provided in the community; including homes or schools.
Outpatient/Psychiatric Services - Provides easy access to mental health care and case management for both long- and short-term problems for children and families living in Los Angeles County. Individual, family and group therapy, and crisis intervention, as well as services for longer term problems are available. Diagnostic assessment and referrals are offered. This program serves children from infancy to age 21 and their families.
Co-Occurring Services - The Co-Occurring Department is designed to work adjunctively and collaboratively with other programs in the agency to augment mental health treatment. The primary objective is for providers to refer to specialists "in house" and work with youth in an integrated team-based fashion rather than having to refer their youth to a different agency to meet their treatment needs.
Fees and Payment
We are a non profit agency, check our Donate page for more information.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.
