On October 26, 2005, Sergeant Jamie Caldwell will be recognized for his work with the city of Glendora's homeless population when he receives the 2005 "Extra" M.I.L.E.S. Award at the 14th Annual M.I.L.E.S. Conference. M.I.L.E.S. (Mental Illness and Law Enforcement Systems) is a coalition among the San Gabriel Valley Police Chiefs' Association, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Pacific Clinics...

For decades, religion and psychotherapy-like oil and water-did not mix. Not anymore. At the third annual national conference on spirituality and mental health, sponsored by Pacific Clinics ...

Hundreds of people turned out for the 7th Annual Passageways Homeless Resource Fair in Pasadena on Friday. Designed to gather and advertise the free resources available to homeless people in Pasadena, the fair was held at Pacific Clinics' Wilson Auditorium.

Gane Brooking still feels the pain of a traumatic childhood. Mark Carlisle is homeless and trying to beat a dependence on alcohol ...

In mid-December, Pacific Clinics Twentynine Palms Child and Family services will move to a new location in Suite H at the Monterey Business Center in Yucca Valley.

An El Monte youth services program, which serves homeless or mentally ill teens and young adults, will move to Irwindale on Monday to a new drop-in center. . .

There are places that serve homeless children and others that cater to homeless adults, but homeless teens and young adults may find little or no help at all. Hestia House is one exception ...

For homeless youths, especially those with mental health and substance use conditions, life on the streets is cold and dangerous and a dead end. According to the Institute for Urban Initiatives, from 24% to 50% of former foster care and probation youths become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation. . . .

Pacific Clinics has relocated its services from its facility at 909 S. Fair Oaks Avenue. Three outpatient programs have been formed to continue to the meet the mental health needs of Pasadena clients.

For homeless youths, especially those with mental health and substance use conditions, life on the streets is cold and dangerous and a dead end. According to the Institute for Urban Initiatives, from 24% to 50% of former foster care and probation youths become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation. . . .

For a crash-course in area youth homelessness, the very real aftermath of failures in the state's foster care system, catch a ride with Saul Zepeda. He's an outreach worker for Pacific Clinics' Healthy Transitions Program ...

Terry Gock, director of Pacific Clinics' Asian Pacific Family Center in Rosemead, Calif., explains that the Chinese are more likely to say that they're tired or that their "chi is low" . . .

Until the 1970's, people suffering from mental illness had little more to look forward to than a bleak, institutionalized existence, dependent on the care of others. The new Pacific Housing Development in Monterey Park ...

Ruben Gallegos and Kitty Galt, two outreach specialists with Arcadia-based Pacific clinics, a large mental-health service provider, said numbers are up about 25 percent at a cold weather shelter in Pasadena. Many residents have returned from previous years and have significant mental-health issues. But most newcomers to the shelter are not the traditional homeless. They are people who had jobs until the downturn . . .