The Village Family Services

The Village's Behavioral Health Program starts from a trauma-informed approach and serves as the foundation for every client-facing service. Our bilingual, multi-cultural staff provide a range of coordinated and evidence-based practices designed for children, youth, and families who have been exposed to abuse, neglect, and violence. Available services include case management, individual, group, or family therapy, school-based services, in-home counseling, assessments, and medication support. The Village's Wraparound program provides family-oriented, strengths-based, and needs-driven care to clients and families that require greater attention and collaboration in their treatment. By connecting families to services and supports, we build their protective factors and functional life skills to achieve long-term permanency. The Adult Full Service Partnership (FSP) program offers intensive community-based services to individuals experiencing severe and persistent mental illness. Clients enrolled in FSP have access to therapy, case management, and medication support services. This program also assists with securing housing, employment, education, and substance abuse treatment. In FY 22-23, the Village served 518 youth and adults through the outpatient behavioral health programs.

Through The Village's Drop-In Center, hundreds of Transition-Age Youth (TAY) experiencing homelessness receive a variety of critical service basic needs (i.e., warm food, clean clothing, laundry services, hot showers) to more comprehensive services (i.e., housing services, linkages to education, mental health, workforce education and placement, life skills workshops, LGBTQ services, etc.) in order to become independent and healthy adults. As the lead agency for the Los Angeles County Youth Coordinated Entry System (YCES), The Village is responsible for processing all TAY in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys for housing placement. The Village also oversees TAY bridge and transitional programs via a 38-bed shelter in Burbank and a rapid rehousing program. TAY enrolled in the housing programs remain connected to case management, peer support, and the comprehensive services through the Drop-In Center. In FY22-23, YCES served 299 TAY. The Drop-In Center served 609 TAY.

The Village's Foster Care & Adoptions program trains, certifies, and supports eligible households to provide loving care for foster children who have suffered abuse or neglect. We seek all types of families, especially Spanish-speaking, LGBTQ, and single parent homes in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ventura counties. Our expert staff work successfully to integrate case management, behavioral health interventions (individual, group, or family therapy), psychiatric assessments, and medication management as needed, and deliver in-home care and/or school-based therapies based on client need. The Village also offers Intensive Service Foster Care (ISFC), which places high-risk and special needs children in specialized and highly trained foster care homes. In FY 22-23, The Village placed 391 children and youth into loving homes and 26 "Forever Homes" through finalized adoptions.

Unaccompanied Children Transitional Foster Care Program - The Village served 16 UC TFC clients in FY22-23 through our program with the Office of Refugee and Resettlement, serving to connect minor youth coming across the border with their sponsors in America and facilitate the reunification.

The Village held other smaller programs throughout the year.