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Get Your Mind Right
By April Caires
(page 12 of 14)DIDI HIRSCH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
Description: The DiDi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center offers support to caregivers of elderly family members, crisis residential care to homeless and mentally troubled individuals, employment services for those with chronic mental illness and outpatient treatment for adults with serious mental illness.
Contact: 4760 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Culver City, CA 90230-4888 310-390-6612 www.DIDIHIRSCH.org E-Mail: didihirsch@pacificnet.net
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services
Description: Therapeutic assistance to children experiencing mental-health problems, adoption services, and therapeutic schooling for those who are learning-disabled, autistic and developmentally delayed.
Contact: 1533 Euclid St. Santa Monica, CA 90404 310-451-9747 www.vistadelmar.org
COMMON GROUND—THE WESTSIDE HIV COMMUNITY CENTER
Description: For 15 years, Common Ground has offered low-cost or no-cost mental-health services to West Side residents whose lives are impacted by AIDS and HIV. Services include comprehensive assessment, crisis intervention, mental-health-care management and ongoing individual, couples and family psychotherapy. The clinic also offers workshops and ongoing support groups for women and Spanish speakers. Workshops work toward positive outcomes in setting short and long-term life goals, disclosing HIV status and reducing risky behaviors.
Clientele: HIV-positive individuals, high-risk and/or homeless youths, and others whose lives are directly impacted by AIDS and HIV. Common Ground serves residents of the area extending north to Malibu, south to LAX, west to the Pacific Ocean and east to the 405 freeway.
Problems Addressed: Ongoing individual, couples, and/or family psychotherapy addresses a range of issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, drug and alcohol issues, behavioral disturbances, transition/adjustment issues, and grief and loss.
Contact: Common Ground—The Westside HIV Community Center Mental Health Services 2012 Lincoln Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 310-314-5480 www.commongroundwestside.org
SALVATION ARMY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER
Description: A residential center that provides refuge for families and children during times of crisis and transition. Residents often come from situations involving substance abuse, domestic violence and homelessness. The counseling program is part of the center’s holistic approach. The program offers individual child counseling, family counseling, parent-support counseling, facilitative parenting groups, and psycho-educational children’s groups.
Clientele: Children and families.
Problems Addressed: Substance dependence, situational homelessness, domestic violence, depression, child abuse, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, childhood disorders.
Contact: Salvation Army Transitional Living Center 12000 E. Washington Blvd. Whittier, CA 90606 562-696-7175
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