Community Collaboration
Los Angeles Child Development Center (LACDC)
The Los Angeles Child
Development Center (LACDC), a not-for-profit organization, was founded in
1977 to provide accessible, affordable mental health services to disadvantaged
children. Since 1990, LACDC has provided school-based early identification
and intervention to LAUSD students and has trained school-based psychotherapists.
This counseling program treats over 4000 children on their respective school
campuses, not in the therapists’ offices. LACDC consults with teachers,
administrators and parents to help children regain a sense of well-being,
achieve appropriate developmental milestones and become integrated members
of their communities.
- LACDC and Camino Nuevo Charter Academy LACDC provides culturally-competent mental health services to Camino Nuevo Charter Academy's low-income and uninsured students and their families. The program is staffed by bi-lingual and bi-cultural mental health professionals and interns.
- LACDC and Culver City Youth Health Center LACDC offers mental health services to the students in Culver City Middle School, Culver City High School and Culver Park Continuation School. Individual and group therapies address a multitude of psychological challenges confronting young people, including anxiety, depression, fear of gangs and parental abuse. LACDC trains mental health professionals to treat children of the working poor.