Pacific Clinics Advancing Behavioral Healthcare - Child Services
Pacific Clinics Advancing Behavioral Healthcare - Child Services
Children benefit from therapy and supportive services

Children: Caring for and Protecting the Most Vulnerable
With its earliest roots as Pasadena Child Guidance Clinic, Pacific Clinics provides a range of programs for very young, pre-teen and teen-aged schoolchildren and their families. Often from unstable or disadvantaged homes, they exhibit behavioral problems often stemming from neglect, abuse, homelessness, abandonment, and serial relocation.

Emphasizing prevention and early intervention, children's services staff work with parents, caregivers and agencies to provide culturally sensitive and supportive therapeutic care. Family involvement in counseling and parent-child therapy is encouraged with the goal of stabilizing and preserving the family unit.

These programs complement and work with Pacific Clinics' extensive family services.

Comprehensive Assessment Program


Infants and very young children (0 to 5 years) in troubled family situations are evaluated for the emotional effects of abusive or neglectful parents or caregivers, as well as the effects that poverty and family instability may inflict on them. Referred by a variety of agencies and other Pacific Clinics programs, these high-risk youngsters and their families are assessed for identification and early intervention and provided with parent training and support services.

Child Day Treatment


In coordination with community agencies, day treatment therapy and supportive services provide a range of in-clinic daily and school-based programs to help children deal with the daily challenges they face and their responses to them. Care services are provided at home in certain instances and in community-based settings.
Young Children's Day Treatment: Pasadena
After School Day Treatment: Pasadena
Intensive Outpatient Services: Pasadena, Monrovia, Covina

Children's Respite Program


The Los Angeles County Children's Respite Program is a support service to help relieve parents/caregivers from the stress and strain that result from providing constant care for a child with a serious emotional disorder. The program was developed through the Department of Mental Health with funds provided by the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA). Pacific Clinics also provides training to other agencies for the respite program.

Children's Intensive Community Services (CICS)


Pacific Clinics' CICS program provides intensive short-term therapeutic and supportive services to children and adolescents, many of whom have recently been hospitalized or are at risk of repeating hospitalization. Many of the program's clients are in foster care and at risk of losing their current placements. The program works with the children's natural and foster families to help children remain in their homes and schools. A network of community resources helps the children remain stable, achieve their goals and avoid re-admission to acute levels of care.
Los Angeles County: Covina

DCFS Family Preservation Program


A is a comprehensive child abuse prevention and family support program that aims to reduce the number of out-of-home placements and expedite the safe return of children to their families, its services may include in-home counseling, parent education and anger management classes, individual/family counseling, and child-focused activities.
El Monte

Early Childhood Mental Health Services


In partnership with Los Angeles County's First 5 LA program, Pacific Clinics assists its initiatives and program development to reflect community needs and priorities.

Full Service Partnership Programs Covering the Life Span


Pacific Clinics is proud to be a Full Service Partnership (FSP) provider serving children ages birth to 15 years. Pacific Clinics multicultural staff reaches out to ensure access to these new programs funded by the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), for unserved, underserved, and inappropriately served consumers. Through outreach and engagement of children at risk of expulsion from school, out of home placement or at risk due to parental issues, Pacific Clinics staff provides intensive field-based services and co-occurring treatment to those in greatest need. Other supportive services include the Children's Respite Care Program.

To be considered for enrollment and for Pacific Clinics FSP locales please contact our Call Center counselors:
1-877-PCCARES (1-877-722-2737)

Integrated Services for Co-Occurring Disorders


Services are provided to specifically address children who have both substance abuse and behavioral health issues. A coordinated continuum of care that includes therapy and support services strengthens their abilities to remain at home.
San Gabriel Valley sites

Systems of Care


Coordinated between Pacific Clinics and Los Angeles County agencies, intensive care management is provided to children at-risk of placement outside their current school or living situation. Families are involved in therapeutic and counseling services coordinated between Pacific Clinics and Los Angeles County agencies.
San Gabriel Valley area

Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS)


TBS is a supplemental mental health service for SED (Severely Emotionally Disturbed) children/youth who are presently receiving other mental health services. The additional support provided through TBS helps children remain in their homes and avoid out-of-home placement or transfer to a more restrictive level of care. Intensive one-to-one behavior modification intervention is provided in the home and/or school setting.
Los Angeles County: Covina
Riverside County: Moreno Valley, Palm Springs

For specific program information, call the
Consumer Call Center: 1-877-PC-CARES or 1-877-722-2737

Additional services are provided by Portals, a division of Pacific Clinics.