Family Services

Bienvenidos' Family Services Agency occupies seven additional buildings that house the following:

The National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute (Fatherhood and Male Involvement Programs)

The Institute for Women's Health (Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment)

Bienvenidos Community Health Center (Health and Education Programs)

CALMECAC (Youth Drop-In Center)

Becky's Place ( located at the Bienvenidos Village for Children, Altadena California)

Bienvenidos' Family and Children's Center ( Family Preservation Program, Wraparound Services, Partners for Fragile Families and First 5 L.A. School Readiness Project)

Bienvenidos' Family Services ( Covina, Family Preservation)

The following services are currently being provided at Bienvenidos' eight sites:

Family Support Center-Based Services - A community-based drop in center for families in need. In order to promote family permanency and improved child outcomes, the center provides parenting education, fatherhood classes, parent support groups, parent/child groups, family activities, informal opportunities for parents and their children to spend time with staff and other parents, respite, information and referral services, crisis intervention, family counseling and other support services, such as, self-help groups and child- focused workshops.

Family Preservation Program, Familias Unidas - This program has been provided since 2001. Annually, the Family Preservation Program has served 112 families including 220 children. Services include Assessment and Case Management, In-Home Outreach Counseling, Teaching and Demonstration Homemaking, Parenting Education and Child Focused Activities, Transportation, Substitute Adult Role Model Activities and Linkages to Community Resources.

Family Support Home-Based Services - This program offers individualized services to strengthen and support families in their familiar home environment, funded through 1733/AB2944.

Bienvenidos' Community Health Center - The Center is dedicated to improving the health of families and their families by delivering a variety of outpatient healthcare services in an environment that respects culture and gender sensitivities. The Health Center is a full-service health clinic that provides primary health care, family planning and HIV prevention and education at no cost for families living in poverty.

Abandoned Infants Assistance Program - Since 1992 Bienvenidos has operated the Abandoned Infants Assistance Program (AIA) Project Milagro, funded by (HHS) Children's Bureau. Bienvenidos has been recognized nationally for the model of interventions utilized and best practices for families impacted by substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. The AIA project has been the foundation of the home-based services. The Family Preservation program draws from the Project Milagro model that is characterized by services that are; time-limited, relationship-based, family-focused, child- centered and flexible services that are available to families in their homes around the clock. Services are designed to prevent unnecessary out-of-home placements or promote family reunification by assisting parents to address their own needs and those of their children. The current evidence-based model of services implemented by Project Milagro has had a positive impact on child maltreatment. The program's home-based services are focused on reducing abandonment, abuse, out-of-home placement among children and reducing parent and environmental stressors. Project Milagro has also improved medical access among the project's participants, has reduced depressive symptoms and has improved quality of life and family stability. Project Milagro's home-based model was effective and has had significant positive outcomes. Child abandonment and neglect was significantly reduced with 94.3% of the project's children remaining with their parents and only 4.8% of children placed with family members.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs - These programs include the State of California-funded Community Challenge Program is designed to prevent pregnancy among adolescents and provide a youth drop-in center that offers leadership development, pregnancy and violence prevention, support groups, art and cultural activities and special events. The Clarity program is aimed at young Latinas and designed to foster socio-cultural identity while promoting literacy. El Joven Noble is a rite of passage program that instills positive cultural values, personal responsibility and respect for others.

Fatherhood Programs for Teen and Adult Fathers - Con Los Padres is a nationally recognized program that teaches and mentors young fathers and encourages the development of positive nurturing parent/child relationships. All Fatherhood Programs emphasize and focus on parenting, nurturing, and “Palabra” which means “Man with Credence”, taking responsibility and being a part of your child's life.”

Crisis Nursery and Respite Care - This program is provided both at the Center and at Becky's Place, a shelter-respite program offered off-site in Altadena by Bienvenidos. Center-based respite is provided as an in-kind service for participants while they are participating in the agency or other community services. Respite is provided to enable mothers to participate in services, take some time for themselves, for women who do not have child care, for women who are going into labor and have other young children and for family emergencies.

Safe Kids Program - This program is a collaborative with the Superior Court. Bienvenidos has been conducting intakes, monitored visitations and exchanges for families ordered by the Court since 2000.

School Readiness Program - This program is provided for children ages 0 to 5- years old and their families to prepare them for entry into kindergarten. The program features family literacy activities (Motheread/Fatheread), on-site preschool activities, parenting instruction and pre-kindergarten transition activities.

Substance Abuse Treatment and Education - This therapeutic substance abuse recovery program for women and their children is a comprehensive one-year program that includes individual, group and family counseling, health services, reunifications services, case management, drug and parenting education. Project HEAL is an intensive, culturally-sensitive 20-week program for Latino Adolescents and their parents with a history of substance abuse.

Latinas en Progreso - This is a compassionate and comprehensive program that assists women and their children impacted by domestic violence.

Wraparound Services - This program is funded by the Department of Children and Family Services. The wraparound process provides individualized, comprehensive, community-based services and support to children and adolescents with serious emotional and/or behavioral disturbances, so that they can be reunited and/or remain with their families and communities. Wraparound is based on a model of service that develops plans focused on the individual strengths and needs of members of the family. Plans center on the family and are built upon the child's and family's unique strengths.

Projecto Corazon - Project Corazon is a program funded by First 5 L.A. through the Partnerships for Fragile Families Initiative (PFF). Project Corazon offers comprehensive, home-based and center-based services to both at risk, pregnant women and families with children from birth through 5-years old referred through DCFS. The project entails a large evaluation component which will document the benefits of the effective use of child neglect and abuse-prevention services to pregnant women and families with young children in the high risk counties of Los Angeles.

The Bienvenidos Village for Children provides the following services:

Mental Health Services

Family Support Services

Crisis Nursery and Respite Care

Monitored Visitation

Education and Training Center