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75 Years of Healing & Hope – Part 1: Reflections From Our Staff
When The Guidance Center was founded in 1946, it was led by a small, handful of volunteers – local school teachers and counselors. Today, The Guidance Center is a major community mental health provider that employs more than 170 mental health professionals, support...
Female Mental Health Trailblazers Throughout History!
March is Women’s History Month – a month to honor the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women globally. On today’s blog, we’d like to honor the brave women who have impacted the field of psychology, whose passion and dedication paved the way...
Guidance Center Staff Celebrates Black History Month
We celebrate Black History Month to recognize the sacrifices, contributions, and achievements of African Americans to the United States and the world. During this month of national reflection, we are spotlighting some external and internal campaigns that commemorate...
Step Towards Positive Change: TGC Collaborates with LBUSD to Help Increase Support for Students Experiencing Mental Health Crises
A global pandemic, grief and loss, a divided nation, and ongoing racial injustices have been major contributors to a nationwide mental health crises in the last couple of years. Many of us had to work remotely, and as a consequence we were given the gift of time and...
Teen Dating Violence Awareness: Red Flags To Look Out For
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month and as we embark on another year of the pandemic it may be another trying time for teens as they seek new relationships and maintain old ones. Since the pandemic began in early 2020,...
Celebrating Black History Month: Essential Reads Recommended by TGC Staff
In celebration of Black History Month, we asked our Guidance Center staff to reflect on the work of the Black Authors, writers, & philosophers who have left a lasting impact on them. The powerful books they selected below touch on everything from the legacy of the...
Managing the Emotional Challenges of Another COVID Winter
As we grapple with a surge of COVID-19 cases in our third calendar year enveloped in the pandemic, you may find yourself feeling especially uneasy, drained, unmotivated, tense, exhausted, sad, or a host of other difficult emotional experiences right now. As the saying...
Adopt-A-Family Tribute 2021
Please enjoy our Tribute Book for Adopt-A-Family 2021 A big thank you to everyone who participates in this program and makes it possible for us to help our clients in this way year after year!
2021 Year In Review – A Letter From Our CEO
As I prepared my thoughts for this letter, I revisited the words I wrote to you last year. In reading them, I recalled the relief I felt that 2020 was over and we were entering a more hopeful 2021. This year didn’t turn out to be the relief we anticipated, with...
Mental Health Tips For Managing The Holidays
It’s hard to believe that we are approaching the two-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with it, a very different way of living and functioning. The pandemic hit right after the 2019 holiday season, so it wasn’t until 2020 that we got to experience just how...
Adopt-A-Family Donors Spread Holiday Cheer!
"We rise by lifting others." - Robert Ingersol Following a record-breaking year in 2020, we at The Guidance Center are overwhelmed with gratitude because of the amazing response to our Adopt-A-Family Program this year! This program matches the families we serve with...
Support Us As We Support Our Community
A FAMILY’S EMOTIONAL HEALTH BEGINS WITH THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. Somewhere in our community today, there's a mother who feels she just can't cope. There's a father near breaking point. Perhaps made worse by homelessness, joblessness, or pandemic pressures, family...
A Grateful Heart: A Thanksgiving Message from our CEO
As I write this, families and friends are excitedly gathering for the Thanksgiving holiday. Perhaps for the first time in over a year of pandemic living, some of us will be able to travel and hug our loved ones in person. We’ll be able to share in a meal and express...
Celebrating A Milestone Anniversary: Darcelle’s 40 Years of Service
There are many things that make The Guidance Center special: our 75 years of serving children and families in our community; our many partnerships with leaders, community members, nonprofit organizations, and schools; and the children and families who are brave...
Adopt-A-Family 2021: Spreading Holiday Cheer
The holiday season is just around the corner and we are delighted to announce our holiday Adopt-A-Family program! Whether you have supported this annual program for years or this is your first time learning about it, your generosity will make the holidays special for...
Grant News: SAMHSA Awards $1.5 Million to The Guidance Center
The Guidance Center has been awarded a $1,578,807 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to enhance trauma-informed care services for vulnerable and under-represented youth and mental health staff in response to the...
Domestic Violence Awareness Month: A Conversation with Teens
“There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects (on) the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.”- Salma Hayek Domestic violence does not discriminate. It...
LatinX Heritage Month
“I looked up at the trees and asked for their wisdom. I observed their willowing branches and crisp brown leaves, dead with only a shimmer of light running through their veins. Its branches holding on to life with the few lively leaves it managed to hold on to....
Self-Care Awareness Month: Self-Care Tips for Children and Adults
In the midst of our busy everyday lives, work, parenting, school, chores and so many other responsibilities can sometimes be overwhelming. When you add being in the middle of a pandemic, it is hard to remember to take time for ourselves.Practicing self-care is...
Nurturing Through Nature
Research shows that connectedness is the most important shield AND antidote to traumatic experiences. Dr. Bruce Perry and Dr. Gabor Mate suggest, respectively: “Disconnection is at the heart of trauma.”, and “Children don’t get traumatized because they’re in...