Children and Family Services

Children and Family Outpatient Services
Children and Family Services provide mental health services to children and youth from 3 years old to 21 years old through a team of bilingual and bicultural staff. Our primary mission is to treat the at-risk and/or the severely emotionally disturbed children at an early stage in order to minimize impairment and permanent dysfunction. The services include psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing, and assessment, medication treatment, crisis intervention, individual and family therapy, art therapy, play therapy, sand-tray therapy, problem solving/social skills building groups for children and probation youth, child abuse prevention, parenting class, community education, workshops and seminars to raise awareness of mental health and child development.

AB 1733 -Child Abuse Prevention Program
The program is funded by the Department of Child & Family Services to provide child abuse prevention & intervention for at-risk children and youth, and their families. Services include parenting education and support, individual and family counseling and case management. Parenting education seminars are provided at APCTC office, schools and various community centers.

School Based Mental Health
Children and Family Services extends its service by providing onsite counseling at various elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Los Angeles county. Our mental health professionals work closely with school personnel to enhance children’s well being, to prevent impairment, and to recuperate their level of functioning.

Caring for Our Family: Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Project
Caring for Our Family is a community-based family support project by Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) through Children's Bureau. The objective of this project is to prevent child abuse and neglect and to promote the safety, well-being, and stability of children, families, and communities. This demonstration project provides culturally and linguistically appropriate service to at-risk Cambodian and Korean immigrant families in Los Angeles County. The Project services are provided at convenient locations for participating families. We help them identify their strengths and build them stronger to meet their needs, and we provide comprehensive assessments and develop individualized service plan. This project collects outcome measures to study the needs of the target population and the effectiveness of the services.

Full Service Partnerships – Children (0 – 15 years old) (FSP-Child)
The FSP-Children is a program of Proposition 63, Mental Health Services Act. The FSP Program for Children is designed for a child aged 0 through 15 with a serious emotional disturbance who has been or is at risk of being removed from the home by child protective services; has a parent/caregiver with a mental illness and/or substance abuse problem; has extreme behavior problems at schools; or has been in out of home placement and is moving back into a home/community setting. Our staffs provide comprehensive, intensive mental health services for children and their families in their homes and communities and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for support with urgent needs. Services provided to clients include counseling, peer support, transportation assistance, community linkage services for physical health care, financial benefit and housing service and substance abuse and domestic violence counseling and assistance.

Full Service Partnerships – Transitional Age Youth (16-25 years old) (FSP-TAY)
The FSP-TAY program is funded by the Proposition 63, Mental Health Services Act. FSP-TAY is designed for youth ages 16 through 25 years old who could benefit from and are interested in participating in an intensive treatment program that can help address emotional, relationship, housing, physical health and other needs that will aid in improving functioning of the individual in the community. Services are provided in their homes and in the communities. 24/7 staff coverage is available for urgent needs. FSP TAY services include counseling, help obtaining medication, health care, finding housing, securing financial assistance, treatment for substance abuse, employment support and transportation assistance for appointments.