However, the “counseling office on wheels” will get the repairs and new look it needs to be ready to help children for another 10 years thanks to a $7,000 grant from the Downtown Long Beach Lions Club.
The Downtown Long Beach Lions have a 90-plus-year philanthropic commitment focusing primarily on programs to improve the lives of youth in the local community and in making a difference for the visually impaired. For almost a decade the Downtown Lions have supported For The Child’s goals.
“Once again, the Downtown Long Beach Lions have given generously to make life better for vulnerable children in our community,” said For The Child Executive Director Michele Winterstein, Ph.D. “The ‘For The Child on Wheels’ treatment vehicle lets us take professional mental-health services to children and families at schools in their neighborhoods, reaching children who would never make it to a clinic appointment.”
For The Child therapists utilize the treatment vehicle at Head Start and LBUSD elementary school sites to provide counseling for children who have been traumatized by abuse, neglect, community violence, domestic violence or have other mental health/behavioral issues affecting their ability to succeed in school and the community. In addition to its one-on-one and group-counseling space, this was the first mobile vehicle in the state of California equipped with a parent-child interaction therapy room to provide this unique “bug-in-the-ear” parent coaching therapy for children 2 to 8 who display severe “acting out” behaviors and their parents.
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