YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVES

Funding for youth mental health services in our communities

$1,000 grant to Helpline Youth Counseling

September 8, 2025

Helpline Youth Counseling (HYC) is an invaluable non-profit agency that has been empowering and serving youth in our communities and local high schools since 1967.

HYC's Youth Services staff provide substance use prevention education, life skills training, diversion, delinquency, and violence prevention services, and youth leadership development in our offices, school campuses, and community locations.

HYC partners with local cities, County departments, community, interfaith organizations, and local businesses to decrease alcohol, substance use, community violence, and hate crimes by educating and empowering community youth and caregivers.

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ECF covered the cost of mental health therapy sessions for a young person

$600 grant to Whittier Counseling Center

February 10, 2026

Whittier Counseling Center reached out to ECF to see if we would be willing to sponsor a young person with therapy sessions that they were not able to pay for and we jumped at the chance.

WCC provides affordable individual behavioral health treatment to children, youth and adults in our communities and local high schools get much needed mental health therapy.

The Carlos family is especially indebted to the team at WCC for providing group therapy grief counseling to La Serna High School students following Ethan’s passing.

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