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1736 Family Crisis Center’s mission is to comprehensively help children (newborns through adolescents), women, men, and families through crisis circumstances, including domestic violence, abuse, homelessness, neglect, poverty, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, distress, and to improve their prospects for long-term housing, safety, survival, financial stability and success.

1736 Family Crisis Center was founded in 1972, as a community outreach effort to shelter children who were sleeping on LA County’s South Bay beaches. In the course of this work, we began to receive many calls from battered women seeking help. 1736 FCC responded by opening an emergency domestic violence shelter in 1981. In 1984, we established the first transitional domestic violence shelter in LA County that offered a clinically-based program. For nine years, it remained the only one of its kind in the County.

Today, we operate four domestic violence shelters, an emergency youth shelter, an in-house Legal Services Department, a City of LA-funded Family Source Center to help poverty-stricken residents increase their income; a job development and placement program; five 24-hour crisis hotlines; and three outpatient Community Service Centers in LA County.

We operate all of our shelters in homes that are warm and comfortable. Shelter Partnership plays an important part in this by providing us with hygiene products, clothing, toys, games, and many items that our clients would not be able to quickly access because they were going through a crisis.

We serve 5000 clients through our direct services each year. On any given day, we serve about 165 clients in our shelters and thousands more through indirect services such as outreach, educational presentations, 24-hour crisis hotlines and governmental presentations. A blanket, a sweater, or a teddy bear, all provided by Shelter Partnership, help to make our clients feel at ease when times may otherwise be difficult.

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