Westside Children's Center

The agency was founded in 1987 by a child advocate who was concerned about the growing number of infants and toddlers entering the foster care system in Los Angeles County. Initially, the agency focused on providing foster care for children prenatally exposed to drugs, physically and sexually abused, neglected or abandoned, as well as other children birth to five referred by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. Today, WCC has grown into a multi-service agency dedicated to meeting the wide array of needs found among families living on the Westside of Los Angeles County overwhelmed by poverty, addiction, violence and isolation.

Westside Children’s Center is a not-for-profit agency providing comprehensive services to vulnerable children and their families in areas of West Los Angeles County to escape the cycles of poverty, violence and abuse. They provide a full range of crucial, multi-disciplinary services designed to:

• Protect children from harm
• Prevent family crises before they occur
• Provide the tools that give children and their families the power to shape their own future.

Vision:
Westside Children Center envisions a world where children and their families thrive in stable, permanent homes and live in safe nurturing communities.

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