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An alarming number of California's youth - estimated at almost one million of our children and adolescents - struggle with serious mental illness or behavioral disorders. The children we help typically struggle with one or more of the following: severe depression, suicidal thinking, drug or alcohol abuse, severe attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and serious behavioral issues.
Left untreated, these problems create a cycle of hopelessness. Too often they lead to desperate adulthoods and long-term damage to our communities. EMQ helps children find their strengths, overcome these disorders and reconnect to their families and friends.
Our Solution
EMQ Children & Family Services is a recognized leader in efforts to break the cycle of hopelessness. Our innovative programs achieve groundbreaking results in thousands of young lives. We provide direct services in 20 California counties, and advocate at the local, state, and national levels for improvements in the systems that serve children.
Our direct services include
- Our nationally-recognized Wraparound program “wraps” families in an array of mental health and social services designed to keep families together by providing counseling for children and parents, psychotherapy, behavior modification, home visits, help with parenting skills, respite care, mentoring, and more
- Mobile crisis hotline
- 24-hour on-site intensive treatment program
- Addiction prevention services
- FIRST 5 program for at-risk families with children ages 5 and younger
- Foster family agency
- Matrix program to prepare foster youth for a successful adulthood
- A variety of counseling and psychotherapy services including outpatient services, school-based treatment, System of Care, Therapeutic Behavioral Services, and Experiential Therapy
How You Can Help
EMQ Children & Family Services depends on generous contributions to help rebuild our children’s futures. The cost of providing quality care continues to rise and we urgently need your help.
We receive a portion of our funding from government sources; however, this covers only part of the children’s needs. There are many wonderful ways to become a partner with us to save these young lives.
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