Programs
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Funded Programs
Adult Mental Health:
Mental Health Services such as therapy, case management and medication/psychiatric support are provided to acute and chronically mentally ill adults of the greater San Fernando Valley.
- Individual, family and group therapy and case management are provided to clients in settings such as the clinic or home.
- Therapy focuses on symptom reduction and helps the client improve their quality of life.
- Case management services provide linkage in order to access medical, educational, social, vocational, rehabilitative and other community resources.
- Medication support services provide psychiatric services such as evaluation and medication support.
Children's Mental Health:
Mental Health services such as therapy, case management and medication support/psychiatric services are provided to children with mental health disorders. These services are provided in the greater San Fernando Valley to children between the ages of 5 to 17.
School-based services are provided, but only to client's who attend a school contracted with the agency.
- Individual, family and group therapy and case management are provided to clients in settings such as the clinic, school or home.
- Therapy focuses on symptom reduction and helps the client improve their quality of life.
- Case management services provide linkage in order to access medical, educational, social, vocational, rehabilitative and other community resources.
- Medication support services provide psychiatric services such as evaluation and medication support.
City of Los Angeles Community Development Department Funded Programs
Family Source Program
ECDA is the lead agency for the City of Los Angeles' Community Development Department (CCD) Bridges Program at Robert Fulton Middle School. ECDA provides youth development services to promote positive personal and social development. These developmental services include: after-school activities, sports and recreation, school support, enrichment activities and citizenship development to youth residing in the school target area. In addition, a staff of professional and paraprofessional counselors provides school-based counseling.
Learning Center
Literacy & Computer Technology
"Verizon strongly believes in investing in the communities it serves to create a literate, well-educated and technologically fluent work force," said Tim McCallion President of Verizon's Pacific region.
Verizon has provided ECDA with $25,000 of start up funds to underwrite the cost of purchasing much needed computer hardware, software, and educational literature for this exciting new endeavor.
El Centro de Amistad, Inc. will provide literacy and technology training to school based youth and their families, residing in economically underserved neighborhoods in the City of San Fernando.
The ECDA's Literacy and Computer Technology Center program will bridge literacy and computer training by making in-roads in local neighborhoods schools, establishing mentors between various schools, and effectively maximizing our community impact on changing the school dropout rate among our high school youth in the future.
The Literacy and Computer Technology Center will provide computer training in three successive areas: 1) basic Microsoft applications; 2) hardware, operating systems and software; and 3) computer networking and website development.
Participants learn by disassembling used computers and using those parts to build and program new functional units. Upon successful completion of the computer training, a rebuilt computer is awarded to the participating family. By placing a computer with internet-access into the homes of residents of underserved communities, ECDA will make significant strides, locally, to close the digital divide between the technological have's and have-not's. A reference library also will be developed with the assistance of Bookends, a non-profit organization that provides books and organizational assistance to literacy programs.
This is a new area for El Centro de Amistad that holds great promise. Verizon's early and generous committee means that dreams will become reality.