1736 Family Crisis Center

The mission of 1736 Family Center is to comprehensively help children, women, men, and families through crisis circumstances, including domestic violence, homelessness, poverty, and post-traumatic stress disorder, improving their prospects for long-term housing, financial stability, and success.

In support of its mission, the agency provides comprehensive residential, out-patient and supportive services for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking, homeless youth, Veterans, and other low-income community members to effect long-term positive results (including safety and stability) that greatly improve the quality of their lives. Program components address clients' immediate needs (such as safe shelter, food, clothing, crisis counseling, legal assistance) as well as provide transitional support (such as job development, life skills training, financial literacy training, in-house legal services, housing assistance) to assist them in sustaining long-term stability and success.

1736 FCC proactively addresses the needs of its at-risk clientele through effective programming and services: 1.) 24-hour crisis hotlines, safe shelter for victims of all ages, outreach, and supportive services, linkages to next-step housing, counseling, and family reunification; 2.) Rapid re-housing programs for abuse survivors, homeless Veterans, individuals and families that offer access to permanent housing; 3.) Legal services that helps victims of abuse and human trafficking; 4.) Employment services that provide job development and placement for homeless and low-income community members; and 5.) Out-patient clinics that offer mental health therapy, case management, legal and other services for low-income individuals, children, and families. Services are free, low-barrier, and culturally competent. Our sites and services have been strategically developed and located in order to fill community gaps and address the needs of historically underserved areas and populations.

1736 Family Crisis Center has 30 dedicated facilities and service locations throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties. These sites include: administrative headquarters; confidentially-located domestic violence and homeless youth shelters; mental health and legal clinics; hotline centers; financial and job/skill training sites; a co-located police-response program; and homeless outreach/drop-in/service centers for Veterans, youth, human trafficking victims, and other crime victims.

The agency’s professional staff, including licensed therapists, social workers and lawyers, follow trauma-informed rehabilitative care practices. Staff development and training is considered key to effective program management and service provision.

Since its founding in 1972, 1736 Family Crisis Center has grown from a single youth shelter to an internationally recognized provider of comprehensive, specialized rehabilitation and prevention services for troubled children, youth and families. The agency began as an emergency youth shelter to care for teens found sleeping on local beaches after having run away or having been abandoned by parents/guardians. In 1981, the agency opened its first emergency domestic violence shelter (DV) and in 1984, LA County’s first clinically-oriented transitional DV shelter. Today, through a network of 30 residential and community-based service sites spanning Los Angeles and Orange counties, the agency offers life-saving, trauma-informed, rehabilitative care to special needs populations free of charge. Each year, our agency assists approximately 6,000 clients directly, including more than 2,500 children, and reaches 20,000 additional community members through community outreach and education.