Our mission is to cultivate nurturing and knowledgeable families to protect and meaningfully enhance the welfare and stability of vulnerable children and their families.
We achieve our mission, in part, by providing significant support and advocacy for all families through our Project Fatherhood (PF) program. We place a significant focus on fathers who are involved in the child welfare and criminal justice systems; however, we support mothers, and children as well. Our PF program consists of the following five components (all free of charge):
- Weekly positive parenting classes and processing groups (online and/or in person)
- One-on-one clinical case management and parent coaching
- Financial planning, job development, and housing support
- Legal assistance
- Advocacy/liaisoning with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Children’s and Family Court, and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Our services are positively impacting families. Over the past 11 years, nearly all of our fathers and mothers (over 98%) that were involved in the child welfare system never had to re-engage with the system again! That means more than 1000 of LA County’s most vulnerable families have been successfully meeting their own basic and advanced needs. This is especially important from a social justice perspective where our families are the most likely individuals to become involved in the child welfare and criminal justice systems. We are keeping vulnerable families intact!
We’ve helped over 1000 fathers, mothers, and caregivers realize their goals of leading high-performing families that are full of love and joy. All of our services are free of charge and have consistent, positive impacts on families. We provide all of our services for free and for however long families need them.
