Events
Long Beach Gives
The Guidance Center participates in an annual citywide crowdfunding campaign every September known as Long Beach Gives. This campaign brings together over 270 nonprofits in Long Beach to fundraise for important causes in our community. We are dedicated to continuing the impact we make in the lives of the many children and families we serve.
Our Goal for 2025
This year, The Guidance Center is raising awareness and funds for our new Family Resource Center, opening this fall. This community hub will provide wraparound services, closing the gap between specialty mental health care and essential resources like food, housing support, and educational programs.
We are incredibly grateful for our generous Long Beach Gives 2025 donors, The Friese Foundation, and Tyler Construction Services. Now we need your support to raise our goal of $50,000 this year! Help us bring the Family Resource Center to life so more children and families can heal, thrive, and find hope.
👉 Donate early, starting September 11, to help us build momentum. Every gift makes a difference.
Donate Now!
How You Can Get Involved
- Donate: Early giving opens September 11, and Giving Day is September 18. Your gift helps families get the care and resources they need.
- Share on Social Media: Post about our campaign on social media and encourage others to give.
- Spread the Word: Talk to your friends, family, and coworkers about why you support The Guidance Center. Every conversation inspires more community support.
- Celebrate Donors: We’ll be spotlighting the generosity of our community throughout the campaign. Your gift not only changes lives — it inspires others to join in.
Stay Connected
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn for updates, videos, and ways to get involved.
Together, let’s make Long Beach Gives 2025 our biggest year yet!
Interested in becoming a corporate sponsor in support of The Guidance Center for our Long Beach Gives 2025 campaign? Email Lorraine Lyou, Chief Development Officer, at llyou@tgclb.org to learn more!
The Guidance Center is proud to honor Nancy and Bob Foster with the first ever inaugural Tim Sailor Legacy Award for their investment in children’s mental health and championing positive change within our community.
Sunset Sip
Join us on Saturday, May 3rd for Sunset Sip: Planting Seeds of Hope. This memorable evening will consist of unlimited wine tastings, a delectable 3-course dinner, silent and live auctions, special guests, and more!
This event is made possible through our generous donors. This year, we couldn’t have done it without the support of our Healing & Hope and Napa sponsors: The Cherry Avenue Companies (care of the Falk and Padgett families), James Foster Mental Health Assistance Fund, First Bank, Air Products, J.Brent Dunn, and Kevin Howard.
Adopt-A-Family
The holidays can be a difficult time financially for many people, especially our clients and their families. Some families are headed by single parents or are multi-generational. Some are victims of domestic or community violence. Some are seeking treatment for mental health conditions or learning to cope with a loss within their family. Each working hard to make ends meet year-round.
Every winter, thoughtful Adopt-A-Family donors provide so much joy for the season and hope for a new year to our clients. We are inspired by their compassion and so grateful for their generosity.
Recap of our 9th Annual Sunset Sip:
On the evening of Saturday, September 14th, 2019, The Guidance Center hosted our 9th Annual Sunset Sip: Hope Takes Flight, at the Hotel Maya in Long Beach, Calif. We invited the community to uplift and celebrate hope with us and what a wonderful evening it was!
More than 180 people attended and helped raise more than $175,000, exceeding funds raised in previous years. Sponsors and guests’ generous support at this annual benefit ensures that we will continue to provide critical mental health services to our community’s disadvantaged children and families.
We thank everyone who attended the event as we unleashed our superpowers together. Your support helps create a community where our children will recognize their own superpowers so they can lead happy and healthy lives.
Make sure to check out our Sunset Sip 2019 Digital Tribute Book for event highlights, photos, sponsor messages, and more! Also take a look at our Event Recap and check out more event photos on our Facebook.
When you participate in our Sunset Sip festivities, you support our early intervention and prevention programs in our communities:
- It’s About T.I.M.E. (Trauma-Informed Movement in Education) is a first-of-its-kind for Long Beach Unified School District training program, based on Child Trauma Academy’s Neurosequential Model in Education, where we equip educators with tools to understand and help their students who are experiencing negative impacts of trauma.
- Collaborative Care Initiative brings together mental health professionals from The Guidance Center and medical professionals from Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital to increase their knowledge and skills of one another’s scope of work with the goal of improving the lives of children by treating the “whole child” in their respective treatment plans.
- Mental Health First Aid – is a public education program on the importance of early intervention for adults and youth in the community. The 8-hour training session empowers participants with the understanding of unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems and provides a 5-step action plan that participants can follow to help someone in crisis. Two Guidance Center staff are certificated in this training program and host a number of sessions throughout the year. New training dates coming in 2019.
Recap of Social Hour 2019
Thank you so much to everyone who supported our 3rd Annual Social Hour at Liberation Brewing Co. on May 16th! We were happy to see our friends and the community for a fun, trauma-informed evening.
By attending the event, being a sponsor, or donating, you made a great impact and helped us raise a total of $8,711 for our It’s About T.I.M.E. program’s expansion in Long Beach schools! This surpasses the amount raised last year and exceeds our goal for this year, all because of your incredible support.
You can continue the important conversation of the Trauma-Informed Movement in Education. Read and share our blog posts on the movement and spread the word!