The Guidance Center is excited to be one of 222+ nonprofit organizations participating in the fourth annual online giving event, Long Beach Gives! Set for Thursday, September 22, 2022, this citywide movement is a 24-hour day dedicated to help raise awareness...
We invited members of our Guidance Center staff to share their thoughts on this important awareness month. Amanda Gonyer, LMFT, sheds light on the challenges faced in accessing and receiving mental healthcare in the Latinx community. It’s no secret that mental health...
As many of us did this past year, Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach returned to providing in-person learning last Fall. It was a big shift for those who were engaging in online learning and at home activities. While families were nervous to come back, many children...
Buffalo. Santa Ana. Uvalde. Could it happen in Long Beach or in San Pedro? The reality of domestic terrorism and mass shootings breaks all of our hearts and scares our children again and again. It seems so untenable that we live our lives like this. At The Guidance...
The pandemic has reminded us how crucial, and fundamental relationships are for our mental, emotional, physical, and societal health. Relationships heal. A grass-roots approach to creating a “trauma-informed movement in education” has shown to be a powerful vehicle in...
It’s About T.I.M.E. (Trauma-Informed Movement in Education) is a training program, based on ChildTrauma Academy’s Neurosequential Model in Education, that equips educators with tools to understand and help students who are experiencing the negative impacts of trauma....
