Agency |
Mission |
Child and Family Guidance Center |
The Child and Family Guidance Center provides clinical and postdoctoral training to psychological interns for those wishing to work with child abuse and trauma intervention. Their emphasis is on cultural diversity and prevention and they conduct group therapy, parent education, domestic violence prevention groups, sexual abuse evaluations, forensic evaluations, and home based services, among others. |
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Centers |
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Centers reside in nine locations that provide mental health and substance abuse counseling for at-risk populations in the Los Angeles region. The centers serve more than 44,000 clients annually and provide services in the areas of emergency services, family services, adult services, substance abuse services, and service enhancement. |
My Friend’s Place |
My Friend’s Place is a nonprofit that provides comprehensive services to homeless youth including food, clothing, health, education, and therapy to more than 1800 youth annually. Their goal is self-sufficiency for homeless youth. |
Cloud and Fire Ministries |
The Cloud and Fire Ministries is a nonprofit specifically developed to assist at-risk youth by providing them skills, cultural and outdoor experiences, and leadership skills in a religious context. |
The Child Care Resource Center |
The Child Care Resource Center is a nonprofit whose missions is to promote higher standards of child care by supporting and educating children, parents, careproviders, and the community who influence young children. The CCRC is based on early intervention theories and provide resources such as child care, support of family members, economic development, and community education throughout three valleys in the Los Angeles region. |
Valley Trauma Center |
The Valley Trauma Counseling Center is a "non-profit, multicultural organization dedicated to the elimination of sexual and interpersonal violence through healing, empowerment, and increased public awareness of prevention strategies." The VTCC provides crisis intervention, counseling, training, and prevention education. |
Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center |
The Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center who work with lower income families to ensure their physical, psychological, and social well-being. Among the services they offer include well-baby exams, diagnosis of acute and chronic diseases, hearing and vision screening, nutrition counseling, immunizations, and counseling for adolescents. |
Collective SPACE |
Collective SPACE provides evaluation of home environments for contaminants like lead and radiation excesses that can lead to developmental delays in children. Taking an integrative approach, Collective SPACE provides families with support to ensure the safety of our children's homes. |
Community Health Councils |
Finally, Community Health Councils is a CDC-funded demonstration project to reduce health disparities through the REACH US Initiative (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) designed to increase life expectancy and reduce health disparities through immunizations, well baby visits, breast and cervical cancer screening, screening for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, and other support services. |
Valley Community Clinic
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Valley Community Clinic (VCC) aims to enhance the well-being of the community by providing high quality, culturally sensitive primary medical care and related healthcare services to those in need, regardless of their ability to pay. VCC provides a full array of services that includes primary and some specialty care, dental, optometry, pediatrics, women's health, counseling and health education with an emphasis on prevention. |
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
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Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California advocates for civil rights, provide legal services and education, builds coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Pacific Americans, and creates a more equitable and harmonious society. |
Koreatown Youth and Community Center |
The mission of the Koreatown Youth and Community Center, Inc. (KYCC) is to serve the evolving needs of the Korean American population in the greater Los Angeles Area as well as the multi-ethnic Koreatown community. KYCC's programs and services are directed toward recently immigrated, economically disadvantaged youth and families, and to promote community socio-economic empowerment. |
Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team |
The mission of Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT) is to positively affect the quality of life for Asian and Pacific Islanders living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS by providing a continuum of prevention, health and social services, community leadership and advocacy to the Southern California region. |
California Women's Law Center |
The California Women's Law Center works to ensure, through systemic change, that life opportunities for women and girls are free from unjust social, economic, and political constraints. CWLC programs are designed to empower individuals to use the law that governs their rights and to address the legal issues that perpetuate the growing poverty among women and children. |
Northeast Valley Health Corporation |
Northeast Valley Health Corporation provides quality, safe and comprehensive healthcare to the medically underserved residents of Los Angeles County, particularly in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys, in a manner that is sensitive to the economic, social, cultural and linguistic needs of the community. |
Chrysalis |
Chrysalis is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping economically disadvantaged and homeless individuals become self-sufficient through employment opportunities. Since its inception in 1984, Chrysalis has helped over 35,000 individuals change their lives through jobs. |
Great Beginnings for Black Babies |
The overall mission of Great Beginnings for Black Babies, Inc. is to promote the healthy growth and development of babies, children, youth and families in communities of color by:
•Helping to improve pregnancy outcomes;
•Reducing infant and maternal mortality and morbidity rates;
•Educating women and adolescents on the importance of early and continuous prenatal care;
•Providing perinatal, parenting, nutrition and preventive education to pregnant and parenting women, adolescents and their families;
•Providing social support and mentoring;
•Equipping fathers with the necessary skills to play an active role in the care and support of their children;
•Raising awareness of disparities in health care services for women and children in targeted communities;
•Providing pregnancy prevention services and activities for youths and adolescents;
•Increasing the knowledge of health professionals regarding appropriate services for women and children. |
Fulfillment Fund |
As a college access organization, the Fulfillment Fund provides first-generation, low-income students with the support necessary to graduate from high school and go on to college. Through classroom instruction, college counseling, mentoring and scholarships, we transform the lives of students, beginning in high school and extending to college graduation. Our impact spans beyond the students we serve directly. They, in turn, influence siblings, peers and their community by becoming role models, volunteers, mentors and donors. |
Tarzana Medical |
Providence Tarzana Medical Center is a 245-bed, not-for-profit medical center that serves the San Fernando Valley, offering high quality specialty services, including: heart and vascular care, a Diabetes Care Center, senior services, orthopedic services, and oncology services. Recognizing the special health care needs of women and children, Providence Tarzana established the Women's Pavilion & Resource Center in 1983, which provides women's health and maternity care in one central location. Providence Tarzana specializes in pediatrics and has one of the largest neonatal intensive care units in the San Fernando Valley. Additionally, Providence Tarzana treated more than 28,000 patients in our Emergency Department last year. We are part of Providence Health & Services, an integrated not-for-profit network of hospitals, care centers, clinics, physicians, home health services, affiliated programs and services, and educational facilities in Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington. As a Catholic-sponsored healthcare ministry, we believe that healthcare must be provided in a compassionate environment. |
Center for Health Care Innovation |
The Center for Healthcare Innovation is a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization committed to serving as a catalyst for stimulating ideas, people, companies, and institutions to collaborate and achieve excellence in healthcare innovation, particularly in the biotechnology, medical device, nanotechnology, and pharmaceutical sectors. The CHI vision is to become the world’s #1 independent thought-leadership institution and “think tank” for the global pharmaceutical and life sciences community. One of our philosophy’s most important principles is to operate the CHI for the benefit of others rather than for the benefit of the organizers. This leads to the most important question for various stakeholders – “How can CHI benefit me?” |
Partners in Care Foundation |
Partners in Care (Partners) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for shaping a new vision of health care by partnering with organizations, families and community leaders in the work of changing health care systems, changing communities and changing lives.
We work to develop more effective, more efficient approaches to improve quality of life for diverse individuals and communities, targeting the most at-risk. Successful models are replicated in leading local, regional and national organizations. Partners became a freestanding non-profit organization in 1997. |
Inspired Girls |
The mission of Inspired Girls International is to educate and equip the next generation of leaders to exceed their personal and professional potential using media, actionable content, and live events. We provide mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual life strategies for young women ages 14-21. We believe that true empowerment is inspiration + education + application™. By blending scientifically proven methods and ongoing research with models of feminine success, we inspire, educate, and equip girls and young women to successfully transition into happy, healthy, and productive feminine leaders. From books & live events to films & digital content, we create the products, services, and media properties that infuse a young woman’s life with inspiration & fresh ideas. We take a 360 degree approach to a girl’s success by addressing her entire being, inside and out. |
Girls, Incorporated of Greater Los Angeles |
Girls Incorporated® of Greater Los Angeles is a program of Volunteers of America of Greater Los Angeles, provides girls with tools to make the best choices in life, assert their rights, and become empowered around academic, economic, and social issues. |
California Black Women's Health Project |
Founded in 1994, the California Black Women's Health Project (CABWHP) focuses on empowering Black women to take personal responsibility for our own health and to advocate for changes in policies that adversely affect Black women's health status. Our statewide efforts embrace numerous issues, including health promotion and disease organization began in partnership with the UCLA Self-Help Center to provide self-help health education resources and policy advocacy for Black women across the state. |
Olive View Hospital |
Olive View - UCLA Medical Center is a county hospital located in the north end of the San Fernando Valley, about 30 minutes away from UCLA. The facility is a 377-bed hospital built in May 1987, the newest acute care medical center operated by the County of Los Angeles. It serves the needs of low income and indigent patients as well as the surrounding middle class community. It is a beautiful campus that provides an enjoyable working environment. As is true with most county facilities, many patients present with acute, untreated illnesses. Housestaff are exposed to common medical illnesses as well as a wide variety of unusual and rare diseases.
Olive View has a unique patient population with wide-ranging pathology. This population is younger than most, with an average age between 40 and 50. Approximately 50% of patients are Hispanic; the other 50% are caucasions, Asians, African-Americans and many other diverse ethnicities. The dynamics of the training environment translate into a rich internal medicine experience in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Such favorable circumstances have made Olive View one of the most popular rotations not only for the residents of other training programs in Los Angeles, but also for students at UCLA and nationally.
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Team Survivor Los Angeles |
Team Survivor Los Angeles provides free exercise and fitness opportunities for adults living with cancer, creating an opportunity for movement, education, and connection in a welcoming and positive environment. We welcome people of all ages and fitness levels in all stages of cancer treatment and recovery, and many of our programs address the needs of medically underserved or low-income women. |
