Community Family Guidance Center
Helping children and their families heal through proven interventions.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
CFGC aims provides an environment of empowerment for children and families in need of healing from trauma, abuse, emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges through proven interventions and compassionate guidance.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Community Family Guidance Center
The mission of Community Family Guidance Center (CFGC), founded in 1976, is to help Southeast Los Angeles County’s underserved children and their families heal from trauma, abuse, emotional, behavioral and mental health issues through proven interventions and compassionate guidance. We provide direct outpatient Non-Intensive Mental Health Services and Intensive Mental Health Services in partnership with Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health to 2,648 low-income children and youth (ages 0–21) and families annually. We are developing a new Wellness Program to build programmatic flexibility. Our mental health, therapeutic, educational, socio-emotional and case management services are provided in Southeast Los Angeles County. We serve clients at Cerritos, Downey and Bell offices, local schools, and in participants’ homes. We also operate a Teaching Institute in collaboration with University of Southern California’s School of Social Work to provide trainings to Master of Social Work students.
Where we work
External reviews

Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of people who received clinical mental health care
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is to provide a safe haven for children and their families in need of professional, cultural, and linguistically appropriate mental health services across the Southeast Los Angeles County area.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We are ensuring access to mental health services by establishing satellite offices in areas of need as well as partnering with schools and community partners to provide on-field services.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our partnerships with school districts, donors, elected officials and the Department of Mental Health Services.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Last year, we served 1,400 new kids with limited space. This next year we plan on expanding our Bell site to serve more children in that area.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Community Family Guidance Center
Board of directorsas of 09/17/2019
Mr. Steve Vicencia
Hub International Insurance Services, Inc.
Ms. Isela Buenabad
First Choice Bank
Maynard Law
ABC Unified School District
Dr. Robert Hughlett
Retired, Cerritos College
Jose Iglesias
Baker Commodities, Inc.
Marilou Mirkovich
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
Kathleen Lovell
Retired, Pacific Telesis
Jennifer Elliott, MA, R-DMT, LMSW
Semi-Retired, Clinical Mental Health Professional
Patrick Sunpanich
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles
Theresa Bazen
Norwalk Plumbing
Jenny Serna
Banner Bank
Scott Smith
Cerritos Chamber of Commerce
Chris Apodaca
ABC Unified School District
George Ray
Lefiell Manufacturing Company (Auxiliary Board Member, CFGC)
Bill Sinko
Executive Director, Community Family Guidance Center
Celeste Rix, LCSW
Chief of Clinical Services, Community Family Guidance Center
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Not applicable -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No