Resources & Helpful Links
COVID-19 Vaccination Resources
COVID-19 Assistance Programs
- The National Council of Jewish Women – LA Los Angeles Rental Assistance Program (RAP) supports women and their families to stay in their homes and provides financial assistance to households financially impacted by COVID-19 or other Emergencies such as loss of hours/work, medical bills, or unexpected financial hardship.
General Resources
Children, Family, Teens
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 877-727-4747
Teen Line
Teens helping teens. Teen Line is a confidential telephone helpline, email, and Live Chat for teenage callers. It’s confidential and anonymous.
LA Child Guidance Center
Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic empowers the children and young adults of South and Central L.A. to get on track to success – to reach goals in school, build healthy relationships, and enjoy emotional well-being.
My Friend’s Place
My Friend’s Place assists and inspires homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives
Alexandria House
Alexandria House is a non-profit transitional residence and house of hospitality providing safe and supportive housing for women and children in the process of moving from emergency shelter to permanent housing. Located in the densely populated and ethnically diverse Mid-Wilshire area, Alexandria House also serves its broader neighborhood community by providing educational and enrichment opportunities for residents and neighbors alike.
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services
Provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
Westside Children’s Center
At Westside Children’s Center, we provide thousands of at-risk children and their families with critical, high-quality early education programs, family strengthening interventions for families at risk of abusing or neglecting their children, foster care and adoption services, and a range of vital, integrated services, such as disabilities screenings/advocacy, nutrition, parenting classes, counseling, bilingual domestic violence classes, dental and vision screenings, and pediatric health consultations.
Covenant House California
Covenant House has the the simple, profound mission to help homeless kids escape the streets.
Para Los Niños
Para Los Niños is transforming lives by closing the achievement gap for children in poverty. Our early education centers and schools build on a child’s innate strengths and resilience, preparing them to be critical thinkers, creators and innovators. Each early education center and school is a family and community resource, providing a progressive, whole child approach to education supported by a range of critical social services including mental health, parent engagement, guidance in securing food and shelter and specialized programs to help families in crisis. Our mission is to ensure our children and families have the tools and supports they need to succeed in school and in life.
A Place Called Home
A Place Called Home is a safe haven in South Central Los Angeles where underserved youth are empowered to take ownership of the quality and direction of their lives through programs in education, arts, and well-being and are inspired to make a meaningful difference in their community and the world.
Aviva Family and Children’s Services
Provides a comprehensive range of diverse and culturally sensitive therapeutic and educational programs to help at-risk, emotionally distressed, abused, and neglected youth – as well as their families – function more effectively as individuals and within the family and community.
The Jeffrey Foundation
The Jeffrey Foundation strives to improve the quality of life for special needs children and their families through the development of community-based therapeutic, recreational, educational, and social programs.
Public Counsel Law Center
Public Counsel annually assists more than 30,000 families, children, immigrants veterans, and nonprofit organizations and addresses systemic poverty and civil rights issues through impact litigation and policy advocacy.
Free Arts for Abused Children
Free Arts programs inspire hope in the lives of children who have experienced abuse, neglect, poverty and homelessness through innovative creative arts programs and positive interactions with caring adult volunteers.
St. John’s Well Child & Family Center
Our mission is to eliminate health disparities and foster community well-being by providing and promoting the highest quality care in South Los Angeles.
CLARE Foundation
Provides compassionate treatment and recovery services for alcoholism and substance abuse to individuals, families, and the community.
Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition
Serving the homeless and hungry every day.
Los Angeles LGBT Center
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center provides a broad array of services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
The Trevor Project
Provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.
St. Anne’s
Creating brighter futures for at-risk pregnant young women, mothers, and children.
Venice Family Clinic
Venice Family Clinic’s mission is to provide quality primary health care to people in need.
Children’s Institute
CII helps children in Los Angeles’s most challenged communities heal from the trauma of family and community violence, build the confidence and skills to break through the barriers of poverty, and grow up to lead healthy, productive lives, serving more than 17,000 children and their families in the city of Los Angeles.
Clean Slate (Gang Violence Recovery, Youth Empowerment, Tattoo Removal)
CleanSlate assists gang members in their effort to move forward in their lives, as well as survivors of Domestic Violence, those affected by the justice system in various ways, and more. We also aid those who need a tattoo removed simply because they are a different person today than they were at the time of the application.
Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Services
Provides mental health and substance abuse services in Los Angeles County, regardless of ability to pay
Homeless
Homeless Health Care Los Angeles
Homeless Health Care Los Angeles (HHCLA) is a community-based organization in Los Angeles, which provides a comprehensive program for any person in need of health, mental health, housing, or quality of life services. These services reduce the impact of homelessness in the communities of Los Angeles County.
My Friend’s Place
My Friend’s Place assists and inspires homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives
Alexandria House
Alexandria House is a non-profit transitional residence and house of hospitality providing safe and supportive housing for women and children in the process of moving from emergency shelter to permanent housing. Located in the densely populated and ethnically diverse Mid-Wilshire area, Alexandria House also serves its broader neighborhood community by providing educational and enrichment opportunities for residents and neighbors alike.
Covenant House California
Covenant House has the the simple, profound mission to help homeless kids escape the streets.
Counseling
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 877-727-4747
Airport Marina Counseling Service
The mission of AMCS is two-fold: to provide excellent, affordable and professional mental health services, and to train mental health professionals
Beit T’Shuvah
Beit T’Shuvah is both a residential treatment center and a supportive spiritual community that approaches addiction and other destructive behaviors with a ground-breaking model focusing on the integration of the whole self: mind, body, and spirit. We work with all clients on a sliding scale. Additionally, the treatment center offers outreach to the entire community including prevention programs, family counseling and support, court advocacy and professional training.
The Ness Counseling Center
The Ness Counseling Center is an outpatient counseling service agency that provides a full range of life enhancing services, including individual and family counseling, drug and alcohol treatment programs, drug assessments and testing, parenting classes, monitored exchange and visitation, domestic violence/anger management group sessions, and hate crime educational classes.
Open Paths Counseling Center
Open Paths Counseling Center’s mission is to meet the evolving mental health needs of the community through quality counseling for individuals and families at affordable fees; free therapy programs for at-risk children and youth in local schools; and a highly respected therapist training program.
Healthy City (Resource Directory)
The largest online source of community resource information and demographic, economic, and health data in LA County
The Maple Counseling Center
Provides low fee counseling to people in need on an outpatient basis
Miracle Mile Community Practice
Affordable counseling services
Rape Treatment Center
The Rape Treatment Center (RTC) provides services for victims of rape 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
The Relational Center
Our mission is to lead a shift to a culture that values empathy, diversity, and interdependency. We envision a world of thriving communities that value social health, mutual aid, equity, and sustainability; where everyone feels a sense of belonging and has access to care and support, as well as the resources needed for community wellbeing. Counseling services offered on a sliding scale.
Step Up on Second
Step Up delivers compassionate support to people experiencing serious mental illness to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the community. Through dynamic partnerships, we provide positive social and learning environments, vocational training, permanent supportive housing opportunities, and recovery services to empower individuals to cultivate lives of hope and dignity. We exercise innovative leadership and advocacy to increase public understanding, support and acceptance of all people living with mental illness.
Teen Line
Teens helping teens. Teen Line is a confidential telephone helpline, email, and Live Chat for teenage callers. It’s confidential and anonymous.
211 Los Angeles (Resource Directory)
211 LA County is dedicated to providing an easy-to-use, caring, professional source of guidance, advocacy, and 24 hours 7 days per week access to a comprehensive range of human services to the people of Los Angeles County.
UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
Foster mindful awareness through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society.
Watts Labor Community Action Committee
The Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) is a non-profit, community-based, human social services organization dedicated to improving the quality of life South Central Los Angeles residents.
The Actors Fund
A nationwide human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment
Adults Abused as Children
Roni Weisberg-Ross L.M.F.T. leads a weekly AMAC (Adults Abused as Children) support group in W.LA
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 877-727-4747
Legal
Public Counsel Law Center
Public Counsel annually assists more than 30,000 families, children, immigrants veterans, and nonprofit organizations and addresses systemic poverty and civil rights issues through impact litigation and policy advocacy.
Employment
Chrysalis
Chrysalis is dedicated to creating a pathway to self-sufficiency for homeless and low-income individuals by providing the resources and support needed to find and retain employment.
Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries helps formerly gang involved and the previously incarcerated, by offering hope, training and job skills. Our goal: To help former gang members redirect their lives and become contributing members of their families and our community.
Jewish Vocational Services
JVS Los Angeles offers hope and opportunity to our diverse community through job training, mentoring and education, combined with expert career guidance and employer partnerships, transforming lives and empowering individuals to achieve dignity and independence.
Gang Recovery
Clean Slate (Gang Violence Recovery, Youth Empowerment, Tattoo Removal)
CleanSlate assists gang members in their effort to move forward in their lives, as well as survivors of Domestic Violence, those affected by the justice system in various ways, and more. We also aid those who need a tattoo removed simply because they are a different person today than they were at the time of the application.
Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries helps formerly gang involved and the previously incarcerated, by offering hope, training and job skills. Our goal: To help former gang members redirect their lives and become contributing members of their families and our community.
Professional Organizations
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
Advancing the professional interests of marriage and family therapists
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT)
An independent professional organization of over 31,000 members representing the interests of licensed marriage and family therapists. It is dedicated to advancing the profession as an art and a science, to maintaining high standards of professional ethics, to upholding the qualifications for the profession and to expanding the recognition and awareness of the profession.
CA Board of Behavioral Sciences
American Association of Counselors
National Association of Social Workers
Grief
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 877-727-4747
Our House (Grief Support Groups)
Provide the community with grief support services, education, resources, and hope
LGBT
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 877-727-4747
Los Angeles LGBT Center
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center provides a broad array of services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
The Trevor Project
Provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.
Mindfulness
UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
Foster mindful awareness through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society.
Substance Abuse
12 Step Meeting Directory
Provides links to 12 step programs and meeting schedules in the Los Angeles area
The Ness Counseling Center
The Ness Counseling Center is an outpatient counseling service agency that provides a full range of life enhancing services, including individual and family counseling, drug and alcohol treatment programs, drug assessments and testing, parenting classes, monitored exchange and visitation, domestic violence/anger management group sessions, and hate crime educational classes.
CLARE Foundation
Provides compassionate treatment and recovery services for alcoholism and substance abuse to individuals, families, and the community.
Beit T’Shuvah
Beit T’Shuvah is both a residential treatment center and a supportive spiritual community that approaches addiction and other destructive behaviors with a ground-breaking model focusing on the integration of the whole self: mind, body, and spirit. We work with all clients on a sliding scale. Additionally, the treatment center offers outreach to the entire community including prevention programs, family counseling and support, court advocacy and professional training.
Mental Health Advocacy
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness
NAMI Westside LA
NAMI, the acronym for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is a grass-roots, education, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness). This includes families and consumers diagnosed with a mental illness, relatives and friends, mental health professionals, and all who share NAMI’s vision and mission.