For 70 years, The Guidance Center has provided comprehensive mental health treatment to bring help and hope to our community’s most disadvantaged children and their families.We plan to celebrate this milestone in providing healing care with the community at our annual...
On May 22nd, The Guidance Center marched with the Long Beach Pride Parade for our very first time, and we couldn’t have had more fun! We thank all of our wonderful staff who volunteered their time to stand in solidarity with our LGBTQ community and continuing to...
Dina Andrews has created quite the legacy. She is the epitome of social work, not only having mastered the interventions and skills required, but also maintaining the ability to follow her heart and share it with those around her. If you were to spend five minutes...
I did it! I completed all 31 miles of my first‐ever 50K in 9 hours and 50 minutes. My secret goal was to finish under 10, so I’m very happy I accomplished that. The day before the race I had a lot of anxiety about whether or not I was going to be able to finish and if...
The race is finally just a few days away! I’m not fully recovered and was still sick through the weekend, so that impacted my training. I went running on Monday for about an hour, and it felt alright all things considered. I’m feeling a little less confident,...
This last week, Matt, Erick, and I trained on our own since we couldn’t find a mutual time to get together. On Sunday, I did a 20 mile run on the actual course. While I’ve done this route before, I was feeling pretty discouraged because all I could think of was how...
