Program areas at McKinley Children's Center
Our mental health program provides a spectrum of care from our community and school based services to our short term residential and full service partnership programs. In focusing on whole family care, we are able to provide support to youth and adults while assuring the needs of the community are met through our trauma informed service provision. By the end of the year covered, this program provided 4,008,083 units of services; 2,320,737 units went to los angeles county, 17,243 units went to san bernardino county and 1,670,103 unitswent to riverside county.
Mckinley's unaccompanied Children's shelter provides comprehensive shelter care for up to 60 youth at any one time. This care involves housing, nutrition, mental and physical health services, academic, and leisure activities. During their stay with Mckinley they are exposed to additional enrichment and cultural activities to support their wellbeing while team members screen potential sponsors to ensure a safe environment for the youth to integrate into the community. We have up to 60 clients on campus at one time, and generally around 30 days stay. We have to 1,800 (30x60) ucs kids serviced per year.
Our non-public school offers an academic program for k-12 and a functional skills program for eligible students from the age of 5 to 22. We provide supportive and related services as indicated in the student's individualized education plan, these include, but not limited to: behavioral implementation and design, behavior intervention services, occupational therapy, speech, specially designed vocational education, career development training, and a range of counseling-based services. During the year covered, the school provided 20,497 days of care.
Foster care: our foster family agency develops trauma informed resource parents to support and care for youth throughout southern California. We support foster youth, intensive treatment foster homes, and adoption placements to assure that the most acute needs of youth in the community are met and each child has the opportunity to heal. During the year covered, this program served 336 children.residential care program: provides board and care (residential treatment and group homes) for emotionally disturbed boys. During the year covered, this program provided 5,302 days of care.path cited implementation: path is a community grant which Mckinley received in order to create 4 different family resource centers across southern California. These centers are each run by 2 peer specialists. The specialists assist with finding resources for the community in which individuals and families can access to gain information about community programs such as medical, calfresh, and calaims as well as additional resources to be linked to such as physical, mental health, and housing services. In addition, each of the family resource centers coordinates a free monthly community activity and weekly parenting and/or life skills groups.