by The Guidance Center | Aug 5, 2022 | Anxiety, Community, Ending Stigma, Hope, Mental Wellness, Traingings
In the 2019 Long Beach Community Health Assessment, 14.5 percent of adult residents of Long Beach were diagnosed with depression. Suicide was the second leading cause of premature death. According to the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 8.9 percent of youth in grades...
by The Guidance Center | Jul 22, 2022 | Anxiety, Community, Ending Stigma, Hope, Mental Wellness
During the month of July, we observe Disability Pride Month, in honor of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990. The ADA provides civil rights protection for the disabled and prohibits discrimination based on a disability. Roughly 26% of...
by The Guidance Center | Oct 22, 2021 | Community, Ending Stigma, Meet our Donors, Prevention & Early Intervention, Trauma-informed
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...
by Doris Pakozdi, LMFT | Oct 8, 2021 | Community, Ending Stigma, How to, Prevention & Early Intervention
“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...
by Jacqueline Ochoa, AMFT | Sep 24, 2021 | Anxiety, Community, Ending Stigma, How to, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Wellness, Parenting Tips, Prevention & Early Intervention
“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....
by Joeline Navarro | Sep 17, 2021 | Anxiety, Community, Ending Stigma, How to, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Wellness, Parenting Tips, Prevention & Early Intervention
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...
