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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
With a $1 million gift from the family of Beverly Hills
developer Stanley Black, Vista del Mar Child and Family
Services of West Los Angeles, a nonprofit child welfare
agency, has broken ground on a comprehensive residential
treatment center for emotionally disturbed foster children
who have failed in group homes and foster family settings.
The new $3.2 million facility will feature securable residential wings connected to classrooms, a
recreation area,
a medical center, and a treatment unit that will offer
"intense therapeutic support" for patients ages 6 through
16.
Peter Digre, director of the Los Angeles County Department
of Children and Family Services, said there is no shortage
of youngsters who might benefit from the center. "They are
kids we frankly don't take very good care of," Digre said.
"These few hundred tragic kids kind of float around our
system. They are our most troubled kids, kids with the most
hurts, the most rejection."
In the past, the only access that some children have had
to mental health treatment has been through the corrections
system. "That's outrageous," said David Leiderman, executive director of the Child Welfare League of America
. "The fact that Vista del Mar is
taking the lead out there is encouraging."
Pool, Bob. "Center to Treat Foster Children's Mental
Illnesses." Los Angeles Times Online 9/18/98.
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