Hathaway-Sycamores’ Family Resource Center is located in an under-served community and provide programs and services that include after-school enrichment programs for children, individual and family counseling, adult education classes, access to community technology centers, and other preventative programs that are designed to help break the cycle of poverty and to enrich and empower families and their communities.
Services are provided at the Center, as well as in the homes of families we serve and in the local schools to help families address their needs before serious problems develop. Our Family Resource Center is successful in helping families resolve immediate crisis and strengthen their coping skills in dealing with conflict and problems in order to foster the optimal development of their children.
What We Do
Our Highland Park Resource Center (FRC) is divided into four components. Those components are:
Youth Enrichment and Activities Programs that include counseling, case management and after school classes, Activities include tutoring, a computer lab for kids, chorus, instrumental music classes, art and drama classes, dancing (including hip hop and Hawaiian type dancing), and a sports program which competes with other gang prevention programs across the city. The goal is to help young people stay healthy, achieve their potential and improve their community. Included within this is gang prevention as well as a one-to-one Mentoring program that links community resident volunteers with community youth, for fun educational activities. High School students with leadership abilities comprise our Youth Leadership Council, and they meet weekly to create community improvement projects and to inform us adults how we can better meet their needs.
Early Childhood and School Readiness Programs that focus on providing various parent workshops focused on prevention and supporting very young children be successful as they enter pre-school and elementary school. Some of the workshops include: Parents with Special Needs; Baby, Toddler, Pre-School & ME; Once a week pre-school experience; Family Literacy Events; Assistance with Kindergarten Enrollment and Home Visitation services. We are working on including infant and toddler mental health under this heading.
Parent and Community Support and Empowerment that includes the Safe Passages program that meets monthly at the local middle school to address safety concerns and how to help children arrive at school and at home safely. Lately this service has drawn the attention of the mayor’s office as a method to decrease gang violence near schools. The Promotoras Comunitarias empowers Latinas to become Community Health Educators, offering classes on health and nutrition, issues in the community, in partnerships and Planned Parenthood. A Family Development Network provides comprehensive case management, using a network service centers in Northeast L.A., to help low income families achieve economic self-sufficiency. We also provide a weekly Food Bank of food provisions to 50 families. We also invite other non-profit services to be on our site to support the community. For instance, Alcoholics Anonymous offers a 12-step peer support program for individuals with alcohol problems two times a week. We have recently been working with Planned Parenthood on providing testing services for STD’s and other communicable diseases through their mobile resource van.
Mental Health Services. Although this program is listed last, it is one of the largest programs at Highland Park. We have several options for children and families in this area, through a team of clinicians, case managers, youth activity program staff, and a psychiatrist, and it is expanding. We serve kids and their families through outpatient services and a network of school based services. We are also in the beginning stages of providing FSP services, as well as serving children more closely in nearby communities by having satellite offices those communities through collaborations with gang prevention programs such as those found at Barrio Action in El Sereno or the Youth and Family Center in Cypress Park.
How to Contact Us
For more information about the Highland Park Family Resource Center, please call: (323) 257-9600 or email