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Risky Business can be a Sign to Mental Health Problems

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Connecting Families to Community Services for the Summer

As part of Mental Health Awareness Month in May El Centro de Amistad (ECDA) is partnering with Pacoima Charter Elementary School for the school’s first ever community resource fair in late May. The school, which serves 1,450 students who are in high need of services, will host the event during its annual spring open house […]

Creating Safe Relative Homes for Children in Foster Care

Recent legislation to overhaul the foster care system and ensure that youth and families receive necessary services and supports has presented a new way of streamlining the process for resource families who are either related or close to the child who was placed out of the home. As part of the Continuum of Care Reform, […]

Second Chances to Make a Difference

When Sonia Rodriguez was a client at a mental health agency, she never thought her path would lead to helping other individuals with similar experiences. Having been involved in a domestic violence relationship for seven years, Sonia understood what it was like to have post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety. Now a peer partner at El […]

How finding a vision set the direction for a new life

Without any real purpose or direction when she was in college, Sonya Cha, El Centro de Amistad multidisciplinary assessment team (MAT) program coordinator, found herself majoring in international business, even studying abroad in Korea. After meeting college friends who were spiritual and attending several services, Sonya became “more open to the spirituality part of me.” […]

How to help children with loss during the holidays

With all seasons we experience transitions. Perhaps in California we don’t see the seasons manifested so distinctly as in the East Coast yet we feel them inside. The fall is a season of internal reflection. We make room for this mental activity when the long summer evenings have been replaced by the changing of the […]

Carving a Role to Serve Beyond the School Fence

Raised in San Fernando not far from El Centro de Amistad (ECDA), Board Member David Moreno started working in Pacoima in 2006 while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a social welfare option. He has invested 11 years of his career in the Pacoima community and doesn’t see this changing any time soon. David, […]

Why a Long and Slow Process Can Yield a Lifetime of Rewards

Serafina Moushel earned her master’s degree in business administration at National University and worked in the mortgage banking industry for a number of years. Yet, she felt a heartfelt calling to work with people and help them. “I know it sounds very cliché. Yet I’m interested in our brain and how we behave, why we […]