Mental Health Info
Addictions, Counseling and Therapy
Arcadia Methodist Hospital - addictions and recovery.
Angeles Community Counseling Center - is a non-profit organization that has been providing affordable, caring and culturally sensitive mental health services in the San Gabriel Valley and surrounding areas since 1981. Serves English and Spanish speaking clients.
For more info: AngelesCCC1@aol.com or www.angelesccc.org or 626/932-1000 (24 hrs)
Asian American Christian Counseling Center - AACCS was created to reach out to Asian American families at risk. Its mission is to provide emotional healing to individuals and families, to restore broken relationships, and to offer guidance for positive personal change and improved interpersonal relationships. For more info: www.aaccs.org
Asian Youth Center – The Asian Youth Center (AYC) is a non-profit, community-based organization serving the social services needs of youth and families, with a focus on Asian immigrants. For more info: www.asianyouthcenter.org
California Counseling Services – MFT and Interns provide a variety of services including therapy for addictions.
Center for the Pacific Asian Family -
is a non-profit organization recognized nationally for it's pioneering work in domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse services in the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Islander community. Their mission is to build healthy and safe communities by addressing the root causes and the consequences of family violence and violence against women. CPAF is committed to meeting the specific cultural and language needs of API women and their families. In 1981, CPAF opened the first multi-lingual and multi-cultural emergency shelter in the nation that specialized in serving API survivors of domestic violence. Thereafter, in 1998, CPAF was also the first to open a multi-lingual and multi-cultural transitional housing program focusing on the needs of the API survivors who seek to establish independent, violence free lives. For more info: 1-800-339-3940 or www.cpaf.info
Centering Corporation - is dedicated to providing education and resources for the bereaved. For more info: 1-866-218-0101 or www.centering.org
Cluff Counseling Service - Marriage Family Therapist, Dr. Charles E. Cluff, 626/710-7418 ccluff.com YouMeNot3.com
Compassionate Friends - The mission of Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive. Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization that offers friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. There is no religious affiliation and no membership dues or fees. For more info: www.compassionatefriends.org
Dr. Shih (Psychiatrist) - 626/284-4202 (Monterey Park), speaks Mandarin/English
Every Man’s Battle - Workshops that provide a place where men engage in the battle to get back sexual integrity, overcoming sexual/pornography addictions. For more info: www.everymansbattle.com
Fuller Psychological and Family Services - Fuller's School of Psychology's outpatient clinic provides assistance to individuals, couples and families, including services to children and adolescents. They also offer educational services. For more info: http://www.fuller.edu/sop/main/psychological_center.asp
Grief Support Classes - Please contact Kathy Ermeling (certified by American Academy of Bereavement) 
626/289-3664
kermeling@abh.org
Living Grace Christian Community Counseling Ministry - was founded to serve Chinese American families, individuals, community organizations and churches. Their mission is to provide hope, help and healing through consultation, counseling, case management, support groups, preventive and educational services that enrich and improve interpersonal relationships and personal psychological well-being. For more info: www.lgrace.org
Mary Magdalene Project - gives women who have been victimized by street prostitution the opportunity to turn their lives around. Through an intensive and comprehensive program, the women face, cope with and then overcome the many obstacles that life has dealt them, new relationships are formed, skills and strengths are discovered. The Mary Magdalene Project is a successful program that begins the transformation. For more info: http://www.mmp.org/
New Life Clinics - their mission is to identify and compassionately respond to the needs of those seeking healing and restoration through God's Truth (addictions/recovery). For more info: 800/NEW-LIFE http://www.newlife.com/
Pacific Clinics - provides care in early intervention, multicultural and integrated services, treatment and recovery of individuals diagnosed with mental illness. For more info: www.pacificclinics.org
Rosemary's Children helps boys and girls of all ages who have suffered abuse, englect and abandonment. Their services include a foster family and adoption agency, a non-public school providing specialized education in a small structured environment, a mental health program to provide individual and group therapy and training in various life skills and the resident program which includes four group homes. For more info: www.rosemarychildren.org
Teen Challenge - is a non-profit organization that provides youth, adults and children an effective and comprehensive faith-based solution to drug and alcohol addiction as well as other life-controlling problems. Teen Challenge is committed to enabling and equipping those we serve to find freedom from addictive behavior, to become socially and emotionally healthy, physically well and spiritually alive. Teen Challenge reaches out to people from all backgrounds, with particular emphasis on the urban poor, women and ethnic minorities. For more info: 951/682-8990 (Southern California Headquarters) or http://www.teenchallenge.com/
Turning Point Counseling - (tender help for tough problems); Contact: Laura Depp, M.S. Marriage & Family Therapist. Appointments available in Alhambra/Pasadena. For more info: (800) 998-6329 ext 349 www.turningpointcounseling.org
Sexual/Social Identity Issues: Desert Streams Ministries - ministering life of Jesus to sexually/relationally broken. For more info: www.desertstream.org
Living Waters – Christ-centered program for people seeking healing in relational/sexual brokenness.
SALT- program for men seeking freedom from habitual sexual sin.
Cross Current – intro group exploring God’s perspective on sexuality/relationships.
The River – adaptation of Living Waters for young adults.
Alcoholics Anonymous Hotline- 626/914-1861
Adult Children of Alcoholics - 310/534-1815
Al-Anon (family support) - 818/760-7122
Gamblers Anonymous - 213/386-8789
Emotional Health Anonymous - 626/287-6260
Narcotics Anonymous - 626/359-0084
Crisis Pregnancy
LivingWell - was founded in 1985, LivingWell Medical Clinic is a non-profit, non political organization that is committed to serving women, men, teens, parents and all those involved in a circumstance where a pregnancy is unplanned or unwanted. Their goal is to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of those seeking our help. " YOU ARE NOT ALONE". For more info: www.living-well.org
Info-lines
2-1-1 - is an easy to remember telephone number that, where available, connects people with important community services and volunteer opportunities including basic human needs resources, physical and mental health resources, employment support, support for older Americans and persons with disabilities, support for children, youth and families, volunteer opportunities and donations. For more info: www.211.org
Adult Protective Services - 213/351-5401
AIDS Hotline - 800/922-AIDS (2437)
AIDS Project L.A. - 213/201-1600
Alzheimer's Association - 323/938-3370
California Missing Children Hotline - 800/222-3463
California Youth Crisis Line - 800/843-5200
Child Abuse Hotline/Department of Child Services - 800/540-4000
Domestic Violence - 24-hour Hotline - 800/978-3600, 800/799-SAFE
Elder Abuse Hotline - 877/477-3646
Emergency - 911
LA County Mental Health/Crisis Referral - 800/854-7771
LA Suicide Prevention Center/24-hour Hotline - 310/391-1254,1800/784-2433, 877/391-4747
Pacific Asian Language Services (medical interpreters) - 213/553-1818
Prayer 24-hour Hotline (www.upperroom.org/prayer) - 800/251-2468
Rape Hotline - 626/793-3385
Teen Suicide Hotline, 24-hour Hotline - 800/843-5200
Victims of Crime Resource Center - 800/842-8467
Victim Witness Assistance Program - 213/974-7499
Mental Health Hospital Care
BHC Alhambra Hospital - 4619 N. Rosemead Blvd. Rosemead, CA 91770 626-286-1191
http://www.psysolutions.com/facilities/alhambra/
Las Encinas Hospital Pasadena - 2900 E. Del Mar Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 626/795-9901 http://www.lasencinashospital.com/
LA County Mental Health/Arcadia - 330 E. Live Oak Ave Arcadia, CA 91006 626/821-5858. Sliding fee scale: crisis interventions, medications, rehab.
Prayer Groups
Diakonos/Face to Face Healing Prayer - 909/592-7133, 100 West Foothill Blvd, #203, San Dimas, CA 91773
Pastor's Wives Prayer & Support Group - meets weekly (Sept-May) and monthly (June-Aug) on Thursdays from 10-12:30pm. Mentor: Kathleen Hart (former Chaplain to student wives at Fuller Seminary and wife to Archibald Hart, former Dean of Psychology at Fuller). Location: Lake Avenue Congregational Church in Pasadena. For more info: Kathleen Hart kathhart@altrionet.com
Book /Article Resources Trauma/Crisis/Disasters National Institute of Mental Health General Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend Grief/Loss When Life is Changed Forever by Rick Taylor (Publisher - Harvest House) Good Grief by Granger E. Westberg (Publisher - Fortress Press) “Good Grief” (article) by Kim Williams (click here for link) Though I Sit In Darkness (one man's account of keeping the faith in the midst of depression) by Terry Powell (click here for link)