CHILDREN'S BUREAU3910 Oakwood Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90004-3487
Tel: (323) 953-7356
www.all4kids.org
Alex Morales, President and CEO
Don Morgan, Chief Development Officer
Children's Bureau, founded in 1904, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Serving 14,000 children and parents throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Children's Bureau is committed to providing vulnerable children—especially in the early years—the foundation necessary to become caring and productive adults.
The Children's Bureau Family Center at Magnolia Place strives to improve outcomes for families with children pre-natal to five years by emphasizing place-based prevention and early intervention strategies that strengthen formal and informal networks in the community and impact primary health care and mental health, child development and school readiness, safe and nurturing families, and the economic stabilization of families.
The Prenatal to Three Family Enrichment Program is a structured, ongoing program designed to support children's learning by providing a safe and nurturing environment, enhancing relationships between caregivers and children ages 0-3, strengthening parenting skills, and increasing social support for at-risk parents/relatives/caregivers. The curriculum is designed to enrich the whole child by focusing on all developmental areas: social, emotional, physical, cognitive and creative development. Classes and activities promote caregiver-child attachment and bonding, children's healthy development, and positive discipline. Teachers prepare detailed, age-appropriate lesson plans for each group - Infants (age 0-17 months) and Toddlers (18-36 months). Lesson plans cover these sample dimensions or activity types for each class: small group, literacy, circle time, outdoor time/gross motor, indoor time, health and safety, and parent participation. Parent participation offers a unique opportunity for parents to deepen the parent child relationship and the child's learning. The FEP operates an ongoing, open enrollment with each family (parent and child/ren) participating in 2-hour classes, 2 days per week for 12 months.
Recent AFF grant: $50,000, September 2010
