Children's Bureau

Mental health services: mental health services are provided to children who have been abused and to families in need of professional help to get their lives back on track. Each year, Children's Bureau provides more than 52,071 hours of mental health therapy and counseling to children and parents in need. One of our specialties is helping foster and adoptive children with mental disorders reduce their depression, anxiety, anger and/or withdrawal that frequently accompany abuse. Children's Bureau believes this critical therapy helps to break the cycle of abuse that is often ongoing as these particular children become adults.

Foster care/adoptions: healing children and families from the tragedy of abuse has been a focus of Children's Bureau since its founding. Children's Bureau does this through foster care families. For those foster and adoptive families who need further help, Children's Bureau provide therapy, mentoring and support groups through our adoption promotion and support services. Children's Bureau is one of the largest private, nonprofit adoption agencies in California and one of the few that is nationally accredited by the child welfare league of america.

Child abuse prevention programs: Children's Bureau is an innovative leader in the field of child abuse prevention. Children's Bureau focuses our prevention efforts on four interlocking goals known to boost the success of families and communities nurturing parenting, school readiness, family resource centers, home visiting programs and parenting classes. Children's Bureau is one of the largest investors in child abuse prevention in the country and is developing a national model to transform an entire at-risk community in los angeles through its magnolia community initiative.