El Nido Family Centers

The civil unrest of the early 1990s posed new challenges to the city of Los Angeles, and El Nido rose to the occasion. The range and scope of services continued to grow to include delinquency prevention; Motheread/Fatheread, a family literacy program where parents learned to read to their children; pregnancy prevention with teen panel speakers; and a scholarship program for clients graduating from high school and going on to college or vocational school. El Nido Family Centers covered the Antelope and San Fernando Valleys, plus Santa Monica, Compton, Carson and South Los Angeles.

The 1990s also saw the implementation of Cal-Learn, the state program for pregnant and parenting teens on public assistance that is part of California's welfare reform efforts. The program helps teen parents complete their high school education, become effective parents and also self-sufficient members of the community. Prevention is a critical component of El Nido's services. Because preventing teen pregnancy is just as critical as helping those in need, El Nido launched Real Men

Can and Positive Futures. Real Men Can works with teen boys to help them understand how and why they should be responsible for preventing teen pregnancy. Positive Futures provides guidance and support for the younger sisters of teen moms to break the cycle of adolescent pregnancy within the same family.

For over 80 years, El Nido has helped those in need and in trouble. Perhaps just as importantly, however, El Nido's staff and volunteer heroes have worked at prevention, to help those who are at risk. El Nido rescues and rehabilitates, but it also works to inspire and uplift, offering children, teens and their families the skills, education and self-esteem needed to be adjusted, contributing individuals, enabling them to become heroes to their children, families, friends and community.

El Nido Family Centers provides a safe haven of guidance and support to children, adolescents and families in the most disadvantaged and underserved communities of Los Angeles County. Programs include culturally diverse counseling, family life education and service coordination, with the focus on teen parent services, pregnancy prevention, child abuse prevention and treatment, parent education and delinquency prevention. El Nido Family Centers' administrative offices are located at 10200 Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 350, Mission Hills, CA 91345; phone 818.830.3646; fax 818.891.3654.

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