1736 Family Crisis Center - 1736 FCC

1736 Family Crisis Center’s (1736 FCC) mission is to comprehensively help children, women, men and families through crisis circumstances, including domestic violence, homelessness, abuse, neglect, poverty, substance use, post-traumatic stress disorder, and distress, and to improve their prospects for long-term housing, safety, survival, financial stability, and success. The organization was founded in 1972 as a community outreach effort to shelter young girls and boys who were sleeping on South Bay beaches. Since then, the agency’s services have continued to expand in response to community need and to calls received from across the country.

Today, 1736 FCC operates a wide range of programs and services, directly serving nearly 11,000 individuals annually, including more than 4,600 children and youth. In addition, the agency provides community outreach and education in schools, hospitals, medical clinics, police stations, community fairs, social service agencies, and similar settings to promote awareness of domestic violence and homelessness and offer linkages to available resources. Each year, we reach more than 20,000 individuals through direct services and community educational outreach.

1736 FCC programs and services operate under trauma-informed care practices, all provided free of charge through 17 facilities and service locations.

• Five 24-hour crisis hotlines professionally staffed to assist callers with crisis intervention, mental health counseling, referrals, and shelter intake;
• On-scene crisis intervention and response in homes and hospitals to domestic violence victims and their children through the LAPD’s Domestic Abuse Response Team (DART) Program;
• Four confidentially-located domestic violence shelters providing emergency and transitional care for survivors of domestic violence and their children (boys and girls ages 0-17) and survivors of human trafficking;
• A confidentially-located Everychild Foundation Emergency Shelter and Youth Program for homeless and runaway youth (boys and girls ages 10-17), including those victimized by human traffickers;
• Shelter and supportive services for human trafficking victims, including permanent housing services and connections to employment services;
• Elder and dependent adult victims program providing victims with services, advocacy support and connections to program partners;
• #SheDoes Haven, an emergency shelter program for single unhoused women, in collaboration with the City of Los Angeles and providing temporary emergency housing, supportive services, and permanent housing placements;
• Youth Enrichment Program through shelters and community outreach in schools and other settings, including Elevated Minds, a youth mental health and substance youth outreach and prevention program, crisis intervention, individual and group therapy, peer-to-peer mentoring, and education through the agency’s youth advisory board;
• Housing services for individuals, transition-age youth, and families, including crisis and bridge housing, housing navigation, and rapid-rehousing services;
• In-house legal assistance for domestic violence and human trafficking survivors and homeless veterans with court representation, restraining orders, divorce settlements, child custody, and other legal needs;
• Veterans Services Program providing homeless and imminently homeless veterans and their families with case management, housing search assistance, temporary rental assistance, employment services, and other critical needs;
• Four Community Service Centers providing outpatient mental health counseling, job development and placement services, benefits application assistance, aftercare, advocacy, referrals, other supportive services;
• Community outreach and education programs; and
• A volunteer program offering opportunities for community