Hillsides

Families struggling through crises or challenging situations know they can find experienced practitioners who are responsive, accessible, and compassionate. Hillsides offers numerous community-based programs and services through several Hillsides Family Resource Centers in Los Angeles County. These centers provide parenting classes, mental health support, and additional crucial resources for vulnerable children and families. We also provide in-home counseling to families at risk who are unable to access the services in our resource centers. We intervene before children are removed from their homes in order to preserve families, help them begin to recover, and create secure, permanent living environments. In addition, we offer school-based mental health services in the Pasadena, Los Angeles, Baldwin Park, and Glendale/Burbank school districts because children's needs are often first detected in the school setting. We turn obstacles into opportunities to restore hope and honor the inherent integrity of each individual in every family.

Programs are partically funded by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and the Department of Children and Family Services.

Our bilingual, bicultural multidisciplinary staff provide the following services:

Intake and assessment
Individual, group, and family therapy
Parenting, domestic violence, and substance abuse groups
Case management
Psychological testing
Psychiatric evaluation
Psychotropic Medication management
Resource and referrals
Crisis intervention
Walk-in services
Youth leadership
Community Enrichment Programs
Child abuse prevention education to community professionals
In addition to these services, Hillsides Family Resource Centers provide the following programs:

Full Service Partnerships
CalWORKS
Proyecto Bondad
School-Based Services
Therapeutic Behavior Services
Intern Training Program

Youth Moving On provides former foster youth affordable quality housing and numerous support services to help them transition successfully to adulthood. Over 20,000 foster care and probation youth transition out of care each year burdened with the extraordinary feat of finding affordable housing and meaningful employment to survive. Many emancipated foster youth don't have the skills to live on their own and face homelessness and other obstacles. Others are able to preserve their dignity with a job and an apartment, but they struggle to live above the poverty line, unable to secure a living wage.

Hillsides created YMO with support from the Everychild Foundation in Los Angeles after staff noticed that many of our former foster care youth needed more help and time after emancipating at age 18 to prepare for the challenges of adulthood. A few organizations were providing transitional housing to emancipated foster youth, but there weren't enough beds for Hillsides youth and many others like them in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Hillsides' innovative transitional living and permanent housing programs give young adults the job training, financial know-how, and the counseling they need to find fulfilling careers and become responsible, self-sufficient adults. YMO's drop-in facility, the Peer Resource Center, serves transition-aged youth throughout Los Angeles County. Specific support YMO offers includes:

Healthy connections with supportive adults
Workforce development to eliminate barriers to meaningful employment
Weekly life skills classes that encourage community and critical thinking, teach coping skills and problem solving, and promote healthy lifestyles and civic engagement
Therapeutic and individualized rehab services
Career and Education counseling plus scholarships
Money Management training
Linkage to ancillary resources and service providers in Los Angeles

Hillsides Education Center, located on our main campus, is a therapeutic residential and day school that offers individualized education for students with social-emotional, learning, and/or behavior challenges. Our staff of committed teachers help students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade refocus their energies and achieve newfound academic success through small classes, personalized attention, and progressive lesson plans. Children also have access to psychological counseling, music, art, speech therapy, and specialized resources. The combination of academic and clinical support allows students to find growth not only within, but outside the classroom. Our staff helps them develop problem-solving skills, work cooperatively, become more aware of their feelings, think creatively, and build positive images of themselves that will carry with them for the rest of their lives. Our Education Center contracts with more than 20 school districts in Southern California for residential, day student, and in-district mental health support, allowing us to advocate for and impact the lives of hundreds of vulnerable children and families.

We provide treatment and adoptions services included in the home-based care to children and youth ranging from newborn to 21 years old from all backgrounds.