Community Services provides a variety of supportive services to meet the specific needs of our children and families. With intensive support offered to families in crisis, our highly trained staff provides a comprehensive array of in-home and center-based services designed to strengthen families and to help parents provide a safe and nurturing home for their children.
In addition, we provide assistance with the necessities fundamental to daily living. Be it food vouchers, housing referrals, bus tokens or emergency clothing, we meet the critical needs of the children and families we serve.
Lastly, we empower the community with opportunities for education, growth and self-development through parenting classes, school readiness, support groups, health fairs and cultural events.
In addition, we provide assistance with the necessities fundamental to daily living. Be it food vouchers, housing referrals, bus tokens or emergency clothing, we meet the critical needs of the children and families we serve.
Lastly, we empower the community with opportunities for education, growth and self-development through parenting classes, school readiness, support groups, health fairs and cultural events.
Family Preservation
Our Family Preservation programs are there for families who have been referred to us by the Department of Children and Family Services and who are at risk of having their children removed from the home. Our in-home outreach counselors are able to offer parents and children individualized emergency support, assistance, instruction and encouragement.
Project SAFE (Salud, Arte, Familia, e Educación)
Project SAFE is a bilingual intervention for youth ages 12-17 at risk for substance abuse, HIV, and other problem behaviors. The curriculum, which uses the Storytelling for Empowerment model, aims to decrease alcohol, tobacco and other drug use by building youth resiliency, promoting positive role models and strengthening parent-child relations through story telling and learning.
Institute for Women's Health
Where most recovery programs last 30 to 90 days, The Institute for Women’s Health offers a 6-month long outpatient substance abuse treatment program using the evidence-based Matrix recovery model designed to help women recover and heal by exploring issues of self-esteem, anger and stress management, conflict resolution and domestic violence. Individual and group therapies are used in a twelve-step program, and women in the program benefit also from regular medical screenings, parenting classes and on-site childcare.
Latinas en Progreso
Supports women who have survived domestic violence through individual and group counseling, health services, educational support, and parenting classes.
Project Corazón
Project Corazón serves pregnant women and high-risk families with children ages 0-5 referred by DCFS. Families receive intensive home- and center-based services, including parenting classes, individualized and group therapy, family events, transportation and on-site childcare.
Project Escuelita
The Project Escuelita Program is designed to increase a child’s readiness for school by supporting their parents’ abilities in providing developmentally appropriate and engaging activities. Services are both home- and center-based and include the Mother/Father read literacy program; workshops for children with special needs, case management and assessments, health services, transportation and on-site childcare.
Padres Unidos
Offers parenting training groups to low-income families in East Los Angeles area over 7-weeks, at no cost. Parents receive a comprehensive intake, case management services, and transportation assistance.
