It is the first of three AV CFRC openings in the Antelope Valley area, with additional centers planned for Palmdale and Lake Los Angeles in the near future.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who was instrumental in bringing this center to the region and collaborated with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) to donate $1.5 million to support it, spoke of the AV CFRC’s importance.
“Today’s ribbon cutting is a milestone. It’s the culmination of three hard years of work to bring services that will support and strengthen the well-being of children and families,” Barger said. “Centers like this one are able to reduce family poverty and parent isolation. They help improve parenting skills and decrease child maltreatment and out-of-home placements. Ultimately, they help children receive the permanency and support they deserve.”
LACDMH’s Director, Dr. Jonathan Sherin, spoke of the AV CFRC’s service approach and model.
“With the myriad challenges that face our families and societies, especially during the pandemic, the recurring memo is that we should take care of each other,” Sherin said. “These resource centers are a way to empower communities and a way to reset our structure and respond to the community voice and need. The Department of Mental Health has been implementing for a while this model of a community access point, areas where people organically come together, train up, help navigate systems and link people with the resources they need.”
Leaders from partner agencies who supported Lancaster’s AV CFRC project were also in attendance, including the Children’s Bureau of Southern California, Antelope Valley Partners for Health, First 5 Los Angeles and Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Casey Family Programs and the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.
The center’s portfolio of services will include community outreach, case management, resource navigation support, warm/live linkages to physical and mental health services, workforce development resources, health promotion and advocacy services.
The Lancaster AV CFRC site is open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about the center and its services, call 661-942-4719.
[Information via news release from the office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger.]
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Tim Scott says
44246 10th St West…it would be interesting to see the transaction history for this property and see which of Wrecks’ cronies ‘just happened’ to make a pile of money. Ten to one odds we find some previous owner that tried to develop it and gave up in frustration when the city blocked them at every pass, then a low value sale to someone who did nothing but sit on it until the county needed a piece of land and could be bilked at taxpayer expense.
Barry Must says
You know too much but it doesn’t matter because nobody will do anything about it. These so called local businessmen are rewarded if they play nice to the movers in town. Nothing new here.