Mission Statement

The San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc. founded in 1970, is a private, non-profit agency dedicated to improving the mental health of individuals and families within the community. Primary emphasis is placed on providing services to children, adolescents and transitional age youth with serious emotional disorders, and services for adults and older adults with severe and persistent mental illness. The Center is committed to treating all consumers with dignity and enhancing their quality of life.

 
Through its programs and services, the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc. strives to:
  • Facilitate and encourage the development of each consumer to his/her highest level of functioning and potential.
  • Provide effective and culturally sensitive therapeutic services based on each consumer’s individualized needs, strengths and choices.
  • Maximize the involvement of consumers and family members in planning, evaluation and implementation of services.
  • Provide a continuum of therapeutic programs that include appropriate alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization and effectively serve consumers in the least restrictive setting possible.
  • Eliminate negative perceptions and increase awareness and understanding of mental illness.

*Multi-lingual services provided.*

 

The Center currently operates 35 programs at 24 different sites, providing assessment; crisis intervention; and therapeutic; rehabilitative; vocational; residential; and case management services. The Center has an extensive history of providing mental health services for the following groups:

  • seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) children and adolescents, ages 10 - 17 in its outpatient, school-based, and residential programs
  • transitional youth, ages 17 - 21, who present with a severe mental illness and/or have serious emotional problems which prevent them from living independently
  • clients who are dually diagnosed (mental illness and concurrent substance abuse disorder)
  • clients who are CalWORKS participants who have identified a domestic violence, mental health, or substance abuse barrier to employment
  • mentally ill adults and families
  • senior adults who have a mental illness and/or who are homebound
  • homeless mentally ill and those who have recently been released or who are pending release from the criminal justice system. Additionally specialized services for several monolingual populations are offered.
  • Fees

    • Client fees are based on ability to pay. Medi-Cal, Medicare, and private insurance payments are accepted.

    Funding

    Funds are provided in whole or in part by the County of Los Angeles through the Department of Mental Health.

    Further Information

    Please contact the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc.
    at
    (818) 901-4830.

    6842 Van Nuys Blvd.
    Van Nuys, CA 91405

     
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