HOPE STREET FAMILY CENTER1401 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90015
Tel: (213) 742-6385
www.chmcla.org
Vickie Kropenske, RN, MSN, Executive Director
Michael Regalado, MD
Hope Street Family Center's Mission is to enhance the capacity of parents and families to nurture and care for their children; promote children's overall health, development, school readiness, and academic achievement; and strengthen existing service delivery networks and foster community partnerships, by developing services that are accessible and responsive to their community.
Atlas Family Foundation's grant is to the California Hospital Medical Center on behalf of the Hope Street Family Center Integrated Behavioral Health Training Program. Significant gaps exist in the training for early childhood professionals who work with infants and toddlers, especially with regard to mental health expertise. In addition, there is a need to assist early childhood professionals in developing collaborative working relationships between medical disciplines.
The purpose of our initial grant was to support the creation of a community based, supervised clinical training program for professionals and paraprofessionals designed to enhance their knowledge and understanding of early emotional, cognitive and physical development of children from birth to age 3. Our most recent grant is funding the implementation phase of the training program. In addition, it is our hope that it will advance efforts to develop an integrated behavioral health care system for infants and toddlers.
Recent AFF grants:
$80,000, March 2009
$132,907, May 2008
