Happy Holidays from Helpline

Youth Counseling!
DECEMBER 2014

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HYC Diaper and
Wipe Drive
Special Thanks to Our
Supporters and
Contributors
Page 3
Client Success
Story: Domestic
Violence Program
Page 4
10th Annual Golf
Tournament
HYC Substance Abuse
Prevention Program
and Social Media

HYC HEADQUARTERS TO RELOCATE TO LIBERTY COMMUNITY PLAZA

In Spring 2015, Helpline

Youth Counseling will
relocate to new
permanent agency
headquarters at Liberty
Community Plaza located
in unincorporated
Whittier. The facility is
currently under
construction. Our move to
Liberty Community
Plaza will expand access
to resources to
strengthen families,
enhance community
recognition for HYC and
deepen our service to
Southeast Los Angeles
County.
The 20,600 square foot
building will include many
programs, services and
community amenities
including an arts and crafts
room, a Wi-Fi study room
and a health and wellness
room.
Our locaiton at Liberty
Community Plaza will
enable HYC to assist a
larger community with

comprehensive
counseling, supportive
services and prevention as
well as intervention
programming.

Liberty
Community Plaza is the
first comprehensive youth
center to serve the vicinity.
Local community
members will have access
The facility is a project of
to integrated educational
the County of Los
and recreational services
Angeles through the office for the first time. Even
of Fourth District
after the move, HYCs
Supervisor Don Knabe in
presence will still be strong
collaboration with HYC, the in Norwalk. HYC will
Orchard Dale Water
maintain an office in
District and Rose Hills. It is Norwalk for its mental
a model for public-private
health counseling and
partnership in the operation domestic violence
of community facilities.
programs to continue to
serve the Norwalk
While it is estimated that
community as we have
the area currently has
done for more than 42
18,000 children and youth years.
under 18 residing there,

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HYC DECEMBER DIAPER AND WIPE DRIVE

At HYC, we ensure that we build
healthy families by helping
children, youth and families identify
and develop their strengths while
eliminating their barriers to
success. While it is important for
us to build relationships with and
seek support of donors, volunteers
and community members, it is also
important for us to give back to our
community.

This year, HYC is having a

December Diaper and Wipe Drive
to assist mothers (and fathers) with
babies who are served by agency
programs. Each member of our
agency staff is contributing to this
drive by bringing in diapers and
wipes. These items, while so
important, are a significant expense
for the families we serve. This is
our way of helping the families we

serve to have this need met at

the holiday season, so there is
more in the family budget for
toys, gifts and other fun!
We need your support to help
families with babies served by
our counseling and education
programs. Please drop off
diapers and wipes by Monday,
December 22 at our
Norwalk office:
12440 Firestone Boulevard
Suiite 1000
Norwalk, CA 90650
For more information referring
to our diaper and wipe drive,
please contact HYC at (562)
864-3722.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR HYC SUPPORTERS AND CONTRIBUTORS

On behalf of the HYC
Board of Directors,
management and staff, and
especially the
children, youth and
families we serve every
day, we want to extend
our sincerest thanks to
our agency supporters and
contributors throughout the
last year. The challenging

and rewarding work we do

each day to assist
children, youth and
families is a true
partnership between our
agency and those who
share our vision: our
dedicated Board and staff;
our hardworking clients
who have the courage to
make important changes in

their lives; the extraordinary

individuals, foundations,
corporations and volunteers
who invest their valuable
time and
resources in our
organization; and
outstanding community
leaders, caring local
residents and
collaborative organizations.

Each of you have our

heartfelt thanks for joining
with HYC to put families
in Southeast Los Angeles
County, Long Beach and
the South Bay On Track to
a Bright Future. We wish
you the happiest of holiday
seasons and a healthy,
peaceful and prosperous
New Year!

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HYC PROGRAM SUCCESS STORY:

CAL SAFE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM

For more than 42 years,

HYC has worked to
provide comprehensive
educational, case
management, counseling,
skill building and
treatment programs to
more than 7,000 children,
youth and adults annually
in communities throughout
Southeast Los
Angeles County.
Our programs and
services help ensure that
families establish a solid
foundation for a
brighter future.

In the past year, a total of 128

HYC clients who have
experienced domestic violence
were served by our Cal SAFE
program. Through
comprehensive case
management, individual and
family counseling,
domestic violence education and
life skills training, the women in
our program undertake the
difficult, often painful but
life-changing work of
establishing new lives free of
abuse and violence. Linda is a
Cal SAFE client who has
courageously and
consistently participated in
individual and group counseling,
education, parent-child
relationship building activities,
and community-building
activities with other participants
in our program. Her name has
been changed for reasons of
confidentiality.

including with her two children,

now ages 24 and 17. Upon
entering our program and
participating in weekly
counseling and domestic
violence education, she began to
recognize dysfunctional patterns
in relationships, develop more
effective interpersonal skills,
and establish a new outlook
on life and a sense of hope for
the future. She has attended
individual and group counseling
sessions very consistently and
has participated in nearly every
family event in the program with
her teenage daughter (her older
son lives independently).

As a result of her
participation in Cal SAFE, Linda
has become knowledgeable
about the cycle of domestic
violence and patterns of healthy
versus unhealthy relationships.
She is not currently in a
relationship, but feels that her
Linda was in a physically and
focus on her personal growth
emotionally abusive
and skill-building will
relationship for 10 years, but
contribute to a healthy
because she had experienced
relationship in the future. She is
years of abuse as a child, she
devoted to building a foundation
thought that being in conflict
for independence for herself and
came with the territory when it
her family and has completed
came to relationships.
the certification to become a
Communication has always been massage therapist.
a challenge for Linda,

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HYCS 10TH ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

HYC will host its 10th
Annual Golf
Tournament on May 4th,
2015. The Golf
Tournament is HYCs
signature event fundraiser
that supports all agency
programs. The

tournament will help

improve the quality of life for
more than 7,000
children, youth and
families in Southeast Los
Angeles and the South Bay.
The tournament will be held
at Black Gold Golf Club in

Yorba Linda. Registration

will begin at 10:30 a.m. and
the tee-off will be at 12:30
p.m. Events for the day will
include the tournament along
with on-course contests,
silent and live auctions,
raffles and a buffet

dinner. To register to play in

the tournament or for more
information
regarding event sponsorship
opportunities, please
contact Angela Bolton,
Director of Development, at
(562) 864-3722, ext. 45.

HYC SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM AND SOCIAL MEDIA

This year, HYC has
expanded its outreach on
social media. Our Substance
Abuse Prevention Program,
which works to reduce
alcohol, marijuana and other
substance use among local
adolescents and young adults
in Norwalk and
Cerritos, has taken a leading
role among HYC programs in
utilizing social media to reach
out to the community.

Through Facebook and

Twitter, our Substance Abuse
Prevention Program
regularly updates our
followers regarding the
programs work and
provides educational
information regarding
substance use and abuse. The
HYC prevention
program staff and volunteers
work to identify local
conditions and
environmental factors that

contribute to youth
alcohol and substance abuse.
The volunteers have talked to
liquor store
owners in nearby areas and
they have put stickers in the
stands to warn
people about selling drugs and
alcohol to minors. Our program
helps build the capacity of
participating youth to
effectively communicate with
key leaders to increase
community strategies for youth

To find HYCs latest updates, please follow us via:

facebook.com/helplineyouthcounseling

Helpline Youth Counseling

12440 Firestone Boulevard, Suite 1000
Norwalk, CA 90650

twitter.com/helplineyouth

Save the Date! HYC 10th Annual Golf Tournament

Black Gold Golf Club, Monday, May 4, 2015

substance prevention.
In 2015, more HYC
programs and services will
share their work and impact
using social media.
The use of social media by our
Substance Abuse
Prevention Program has gained
new youth and adult followers
for HYC and for the program.
Please join us on Facebook
and Twitter and get informed
and involved with HYC!