The Village Family Services Inc

The Village's Foster Care & Adoptions program trains, certifies, and supports eligible households to provide loving care for foster children who have suffered abuse or neglect. We seek all types of families, especially Spanish-speaking, LGBTQ, and single parent homes in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ventura counties. Our expert staff work successfully to integrate case management, behavioral health interventions (individual, group, or family therapy), psychiatric assessments, and medication management as needed, and deliver in-home care and/or school-based therapies based on client need. The Village also offers Intensive Service Foster Care (ISFC), which places high-risk and special needs children in specialized and highly trained foster care homes. In FY 23-24, The Village placed 277 children and youth into loving homes and 18 "Forever Homes" through finalized adoptions.

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 FY23-24, the Housing programs served 207 TAY. The Drop-In Center served 686 TAY.

Unaccompanied Children Transitional Foster Care Program - The Village served 99 UC TFC clients in FY23-24 through our program with the Office of Refugee and Resettlement, serving to connect minor youth coming across the border with their sponsors in America and facilitate the reunification.

The Village held other smaller programs throughout the year including our Enhanced Care Management program providing a comprehensive care management plan encompassing a full array of stabilizing services such as health promotion, member and family support, and transitional care assisting with coordination of community and social services support.