The Village Family Services Inc

The Village's Behavioral Health Program is grounded in a trauma-informed approach, serving as the cornerstone of all client-facing services. 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. Services provided include case management, individual, group, or family therapy, school-based services, in-home counseling, assessments, and medication support. The Village's Wraparound behavioral health program delivers 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 support, 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 24-25, the Village served 636 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 Chatsworth 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 FY 24-25, the Housing programs served 462 TAY. The Drop-In Center served 570 TAY.