Bienvenidos Family Support Center

Tur goal at the Bienvenidos Family Support Center is to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping families survive in times of crises and by providing a continuum of services designed to strengthen and support them throughout the year.

Located in the heart of East Los Angeles, the center provides vital, culturally sensitive programs where families access an extended network of in-home and center-based family support services and can interact with other families and staff in a comfortable friendly, home-like environment. Art, cultural, and other community events are also sponsored by the Center.

Center-based services

Caring and compassionate Bienvenidos staff members help protect and nurture children and families by delivering services tailored to meet the individuals needs of each family. Current services include:

  • Assessment, advocacy, and case management
  • Reunification, including court-based support and counseling
  • Family and individual counseling and referrals
  • Crisis intervention and respite child care
  • Health care access and referrals
  • Group support and self-help groups
  • Mentoring and assistance for job readiness and placement
  • Housing and transportation assistance
  • Parenting and self-sufficiency workshops
  • Family drop-in center
  • Art, cultural, and community events
  • Food and clothes bank

Specialized center-based services also include:

  • Fatherhood and leadership programs
  • Support for families impacted by domestic violence
  • Parenting education and support
  • Substance abuse prevention and recovery
  • Health care services including STD and pregnancy prevention
  • Special services for families living with HIV/AIDS.

 

Bienvenidos Family Support Center
5233 East Beverly Blvd.
East Los Angeles, CA 90022
(323) 728-9577 phone
(323) 728-3843 fax
fs@bienvenidos.org

Family Drop-in CenterHours
Monday - Saturday
8 am - 8 pm

Se Habla Espanol

Home-based services

Based on the knowledge a strong parent-child bond is most economical, effective, and least intrusive way to protect children, Bienvenidos pioneered the creation of the intensive in-home visitation program to protect children at risk for abuse and neglect, (especially medically fragile infants) and help strengthen family bonds. Families receive individualized weekly services for up to 12 months delivered with a keen sensitivity to the unique cultural identity and family values of Latino families.

Home-based support programs focus on the family as the center of intervention, not children or parents as individuals. An assigned Bienvenidos Family Support Worker provides weekly home visits, serving as the family’s case manager, teacher, mentor, counselor, and a trusted source of support. Plans are developed in cooperation with the family and monitored and modified quarterly. Parents learn to increasingly accept personal responsibility for their family’s welfare by acquiring the skills necessary to nurture, protect, and care for their children, advocate for the family, and access available resources and services. A Health Educator may also be called upon to provide individualized health education for mothers and children, including medically fragile, drug or alcohol impacted, or HIV positive infants.

By visiting families in their homes, Bienvenidos Family Support Workers have recurring opportunities to observe changes in the home environment and between family members. With this knowledge, they can present skills and strategies for more effective parenting, childcare, and household management, coping with crises, and life-enhancement. The Bienvenidos Family Support worker will also link families to appropriate medical and legal services, child- and respite care, job training and placement programs, economic assistance programs, the Regional Center, and other resources. In addition, the worker may offer transportation services or accompany families to appointments with available community resources and monitors.

 

Con Los Padres

The Con Los Padres Program is a nationally recognized young fatherhood mentoring and educational program that provides supportive services and direction to young fathers. Con Los Padres helps young fathers to understand their child's growth and development, to understand their child's growth and development, to understand their rights and responsibilities, and encourages positive and nurturing relationships between both parents and their child.

Services offered include:

  • Parenting/Fatherhood training:
  • Young fathers and expectant young fathers, will participate in weekly classes for 20 weeks, will participate in weekly classes for 20 weeks. They will learn what it is to be caring fathers and what it means to have PALABRA (word). Within a support group setting, they will have an opportunity to share their hopes, problems and concerns.
  • Case management:
  • Participants will take part in special sessions where they will learn new ways to read, play and interact with their children.
  • Legal/Paternity clinics:
  • Participants will learn about their rights and responsibilities as fathers through a series of clinics facilitated by attorneys and experts in the field of child support, custody, visitation, and paternity establishment. Participants will be assisted and encouraged to establish their legal relationship with their children.
  • Cultural Activities:
  • Young fathers will participate in activities: Young fathers will participate in activities created to help develop and enhance their cultural identity.

Con Los Padres is located at:

5233 East Beverly Blvd.
East Los Angeles, CA 90022
(323) 728-9577

El Joven Noble
(The Noble Young Man)


"We must guide the youth across the rites of passage bridge
so they will be prepared to guide the next generation"

Jerry Tello

El Joven Noble (The Noble Young Man)
Male Responsibility Project

This is a comprehensive effort to enhance the ability of Latino males to act in a responsible and respectful way in their relationships while reducing the incidence of unwanted and/or unplanned pregnancies and STI's. Under the guidance of Jerry Tello, a national recognized expert in the field, the program utilizes male focused culturally relevant curriculum, family planning/ testing outreach service strategies, adult male "compadre" extended kindship support, youth development "rites of passage" activities incorporated into culturally appropriate research/evaluation methodologies.

Hombres Jovenes Con Palabra

This program introduces positive Latino male values and responsibility and seeks to change negative attitudes, behaviors in regards to relationships and teen pregnancy prevention through educational workshops and presentations. This project bases its lessons on the indigenous rooted concept of maintaining ones PALABRA or credible word. The Hombres Jovenes Con Palabra program was acknowledged by the Urban Institute as one of the most outstanding male pregnancy prevention programs in the nation.

Primary intervation is provided to youth who are recruited from: schools; correctional facilities; continuation schools; and other community agencies.

The program covers the following areas:

  • Conocimento - Acknowledging each other based on respect.
  • Cultural Identity - Understanding the true essence of manhood
  • Maleness vs. manhood - True and False teachings of manhood learned from our families, society, and culture.
  • Male and Female Balance - The cycle of development in male and female physiology.
  • Hombre Sin Palabra - When men hurt themselves and their families (family violence, drugs, alcohol, gangs, etc.).
  • Palabra or Consequences - HIV and STI information and the consequences of unprotected sexual activities.
  • Myth vs. Fact-Having knowledge gives you strength. Knowledge of laws (e.g. statutory rape, child support, legal rights, and resources).
  • Preparing to Cross the bridge - Knowing acknowledgement and giving thanks with a commitment of Palabra.

secondary prevention education is provided to young fathers as way of preventing multiple pregnancies and preventing sexually transmitted infections

El Joven Noble
Young Compadres Youth Development Program

This is a support, reinforcement and development program that focuses on the after care component of the El Joven Noble Project for youth ages 13-24.


The purpose of this program is to provide a place and a vehicle whereby young man who participated are involved in the Jombres Jovens Con Palabra and Safer Sex Friday, can now receive reinforcement, support and continued development related to their rites of passage to adulthood.

The following four areas are incorporated:

  • Life Skills Development: lessons are related to day-to-day issues.
  • Cultural Development: an ongoing Martial Arts and Cultural Identity program to include theater, music, and recreation.
  • Compadres Mentoring: adult male compadres are involved with the participants as role models.

el Joven Noble is located at:

5252 East Beverly Blvd.
East Los Angeles, CA 90022.

Instituto De Salud Femenina
(Institut for Women's Health)

substance Abuse outpatient services provides a therapeutic recovery program for women and their children. Services include:

  • Individual/group counseling
  • Drug education
  • Child development
  • Parenting class
  • In-home/center-based case mgmt.
  • Support group
  • Relapse prevention
  • Domestic violence
  • Youth groups

Following therapeutic groups offered:

  • Self-esteem/anger mgmt.
  • Self-help groups/stress mgmt.
  • Journal writing
  • Life-skills training

additional services:

  • Psychological assessment
  • Drug testing
  • Health screenings
  • HIV/AIDS education/counseling

all women will enter a 6 month comprehensive outpatient day program that will foster their recovery. The program is provided in three phases:

  • Realization phase (4 months) drug ed., parenting class, women's group, relapse prevention, CLARITY & domestic violence.
  • Transfer of Learning phase (2 months) therapy group, anger mgmt., stress mgmt., life skills-training, self-esteem workshops & workshops for children.
  • Self-actualization phase (6 months to lifetime) self-help groups, NA mtgs., alumni & support networks.

all services will be provided within a therapeutic, safe and emphatetic environment. Collaborating agencies are Planned Parenthood, Department of Health, and California Family Health Net.

5257 East Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90022
(323) 726-9777

 

Latinas en Progreso
Domestic Violence Program
(A project funded in part by CALWORKS)


Throughout our 13 years experience we have worked with families impacted by domestic violence through a continuum of services designed to stabilize the family unit and work towards self-sufficiency. Bienvenidos has been providing services in English and Spanish since its inception. Approximately 90% percent of the direct services staff are bilingual English and Spanish speakers and 90% percent are bicultural. Approximately 40% percent of the clients served through our East Los Angeles Office are monolingual Spanish speakers.

Domestic Violence services we currently provide are:

  • Individual Counseling v Family Counseling
  • Group Therapy for Women
  • Domestic Violence Support Groups
  • A Window between Worlds
  • Peer Support Groups
  • Legal Advocacy
  • Emergency food, clothing and housing
  • Parenting Classes
  • Job Preparation and Placement

Project Milagros

on October 1, 2000, Bienvenidos Family Services was awarded the Abandoned Infants Assistance Program funded through the Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS). This is our 8th year of funding.

Project Milagro is a comprehensive In-Home Support Program that seeks to achieve safety, permanency and well being for children who are at risk of abandonment due to substance abuse and/or HIV of their parents.

Project Milagro offers culturally sensitive and coordinated services through a team approach model consisting of a bilingual/bicultural: in-home counselor, family support worker and health educator. Prevention and early intervention services are offered through weekly in-home visits, center based services, and voluntary referrals to outside community resources. Coordinated and comprehensive services offered by Project Milagro are individualized to meet specific needs of each family.

The Project Milagro's team approach offers a variety of supportive services that seeks to increase quality of life by preserving, stabilizing, or reunifying families that are impacted by substance abuse and/or HIV/AIDS. The team approach provides opportunities to teach and model appropriate parenting, household management, coping skills and to assist families in addressing issues related to recovery or living with a chronic disease as well as future care and custody planning for their children.

Project Milagro assists families in making positive changes in the home environment by promoting permanent, loving, primary relationships for children and addressing; the social, physical, developmental, and emotional effects of substance abuse, poverty and/or HIV/AIDS.

Services includes but are not limited to;

  • In-home counseling
  • Parenting
  • Health education
  • Case management
  • Transportation
  • Advocacy
  • Resources and referrals
  • All services provided by Project Milagro are free.

Project Milagros is located at:

Bienvenidos Family Support Center
5233 East Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90022
(323) 728-9577

 

East Los Angeles Men's Health Center

Is Living a Healthy Life Important To you?

TThe health center provides screening in many of the main areas of health that concern men face today.


Free or low cost Health Care:

  • Reproductive Health Services
  • Physical Exams
  • HIV Testing
  • Testing and Treatment for STD's (sexually transmitted infections)
  • Immunizations
  • Flue Vaccine
  • Prostate Exams

Screenings:

  • High Blood Pressure
  • Diabetes
  • High Cholesterol
  • Disease of the Stomach
  • Respiratory Tract

"Improving the health and well-being of Latino males by providing a culturally sensitive atmosphere where health is essential to the soul, body and mind"

Safer Sex Friday is an innovative outreach and educational strategy that provides youth with a friendly atmosphere and activities. Youth come to the center to receive contraceptives and reproductive health information and at the same time can be tested for HIV/STI's. Certified HIV/STI counselors and health educators are involved.

This program takes place on Friday nights and it allows the youth to interact socially while receiving educational and clinical services.

safer Sex Friday is a collaborative effort of Planned Parenthood, Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services, STD program.

To make an appointment call

Phone: 323-726-9790
Fax: 323-726-9789

office hours:

Wed.:  9:00am to 5:00 pm
Fri.: 12:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Sat.:  8:00 am to 2:00 pm

Se Habla Espanol

East Los Angeles Men's Health Center
5257 E. Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90022

 

Calmecac Youth Center

ohrough our youth drop-in center we offer programs that focus on leadership development, pregnancy and violence prevention, the arts, cultural activities, support groups and special youth events.

Programs that are offered through that center include:

CLARITY

ohe fundamental goals of this curriculum are to promote literacy and foster social-cultural identity among all participants. Literacy and social consciousness build community relationships. Surrounding people with print and language instills a social consciousness that supports community relationships. Such consciousness bolsters individual responsibility and self-determination. Such consciousness changes lives.

ohere are consistent activities through each session. There is sharing of language through poetry and stories. There is also space provided for individual reflection though journal writing. The journals document the journey that we take during our time together. The journals may be written, drawn or expressed in anyway that is meaningful to the participant. A collection of activities and reflections will be treasured in a portfolio. The portfolios are an important relic, a collections of the reading, writing and expressions that each woman struggled with and shared to achieve clarity in her own life.

ohe curriculum is designed for young girls and women and teen moms as they transition toward becoming women. Adult coaches, mujeres, together with the girls engage in a teaching and learning process that is community based, culturally specific and womanist centered. All participants are members of this learning communityBall are valuable contributors.

CIRCULO DE SALUD (CIRCLE OF HEALTH)

os a new project born out of a collaborative effort between Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles and Bienvenidos Family Services funded by the California Endowment. Our objective is to promote adolescent Health and sexual responsibility among young Latino males, using AEl Joven Noble Curriculum@ which promotes responsibility through cultural values. Other services offered are tutoring, mentoring, advocacy with community and educational issues.

 

Out-patient Mental Health Program

Master's level therapists provide assessment and treatment to children ages birth to 21 years through our Out-Patient Clinic.

Treatment strategies are regularly reviewed to ensure that ongoing services are being tailored to meet the changing needs of the child and family.

Tienvenidos Family Services provides outpatient and home-based mental health services to families, youth and children.

Individual Counseling - Individual counseling is offered to participants who have difficulties functioning in a group; those with a history of mental illness, depression or other diagnosis and display the need for more assistance than can be provided in a group environment. A master's level social worker, psychologist or counselor who is supervised by a licensed social worker provides the individual counseling.

Family Counseling - Family counseling is offered to all participants with children living in the home. Children in need of counseling for themselves will be assisted through our Children's Mental Health Program.

Group Therapy - A master's level therapist provides group therapy (Spanish/English) for those who require a group environment. The groups not only provide therapy, but also offers opportunities for decreasing participants' social isolation. In the past, participants have developed supportive relationships with each other that are sustained outside of the group as well.

24-hour crisis counseling Staff is available on a 24-hour basis through our emergency telephone line.