Where Passion Meets Purpose!
Serving individuals and families of individuals with mental or behavioral health conditions.
Serving the entire county of Los Angeles.
What is Mindful Connections?
- A Non-profit organization that serves individuals and families of individuals with mental/behavioral health conditions
- A Community Resource Network
- Mental/Behavioral Health Advocate
- Community Service Org
Why does Mindful Connections exist?
- To decrease the stigmatization of Mental/Behavioral Health Disorders.
- To empower the community to take action
- To challenge this population to take control of their lives
Where can you find Mindful Connections?
- Providing our services in the Los Angeles County Area
- 2 physical locations: Los Angeles and the Antelope Valley area
- By appointment only
- Online through websites and social media networks.
- Registered with Local, State, and National Mental Health Organizations.
Our Focus
We are committed to improving the lives and well-being of adolescents and young adults with mental/behavioral health conditions by cultivating awareness and decreasing the stigmatization that surrounds mental illness by providing our services in a way that is loving, kind, and compassionate. We have over 15 years of experience in working through the specific needs of close loved ones with mental health conditions throughout those years.
We believe in mental/behavioral health care and know it to be extremely effective when coupled with community support. We are dedicated in our efforts to extend our knowledge and hard work to the betterment of those lives that may truly benefit from our services.
Social Issues
Poverty, homelessness, access to mental healthcare services, LQBTQ+, gender identity issues, hunger/food insecurities, substance abuse
- Housing assistance,
- Assistance with access to Family and Children Services
- Substance Use Support
- LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Support Services
- Access to Community Resources
- Legal Aid assistance
Family Issues
Any sort of dynamic, behavior, and/or pattern that disrupts the household or family at large (divorce/separation, problems with siblings, parents with mental health issues, work-life balance, communication, unemployment or financial issues, child discipline, extended family) foster care and adoption, divorce/separation, problems with siblings, parents with mental health conditions, communication, financial concerns
- Family Management Training
- Family Support Group
- Support for Foster Families
- Home Skills Support
School / Work Issues
- We help to identify issues related to school/work such as unemployment, poor grades, higher education difficulties, bullying
- We help to provide tutoring service to meet education requirements or goals
- Assist with qualifications for 504 Plan or IEP
- Assist with college preparation
- Work study programs
- Job readiness/training programs
- Support services for victims of bullying
Advocacy for Student Mental Health
- 70% of students in need of professional help for a mental health concern do no receive adequate treatment
- End Mental Health Stigma, Advocate for School Mental Health Services
- Support Student-Led Initiatives
Mental Health Service Support
- Mental Health Assessment and Screening
- Access to mental health treatment providers and services within community
- Early detection and treatment of mental health conditions amongst the youth
- Peer Support Services
- Crisis Intervention
Mental Health Advocacy Services
- Mental Health Education and Awareness within school systems
- Mental Health Education and Awareness for the workforce
- Talk-to-Change Community Action Initiative
Talk-to-Change Initiative
- A community outreach campaign for Mental Health Reform that will influence stakeholders with government, political or funding power to implement public projects and policies that primarily benefit individual communities and drive social change.
- Encourage the mental health community to be more transparent about how the experiences of those with mental illness are impacted by communities that have a lack of mental health awareness.
- Acknowledgment of how the workforce negatively affects the mental health of employees, suggest recommendation to make workforce more mental strong
- Acknowledge the detrimental effects of lack of mental health education and awareness within school systems; impose mental health education within curriculum starting as early as grade school.
- Address the need for more community organizations or non-profits to decompress the overwhelmed institutions (hospitals facilities) and governmental agencies (department of family and children services) due to an overall lack of mental health and awareness of individuals within our communities.
- Address the lack of programs that directly provide services, education, and training for the environmental factors that lead to mental illness.
Our Partners
Crisis Hotlines
Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - 988
Veterans – 988 then press 1
Substance Use and Mental Health Healthline: 1-800-662-4357
Text HOME to 741741 – to speak to a volunteer Crisis Counselor
NAMI helpline: 1-800-950-6264
Runaway Safeline: 800-786-2929
Domestic Violence: 800-799-7233
Parents Hotline: 909-621-6184
Sexual Assault: 800-656-4673
Find the Children 888-477-6721
