American Psychiatric Association National Award

The American Psychiatric Association selected the Clinic's First Steps Program to receive its 2006 Advancing Minority Mental Health Award. This prestigious award is made annually to honor psychiatrists and mental health programs that udnertake innovative efforts to raise awareness of mental illness in underserved communities and increase access to quality mental health services in those communities. (click here for press release)

National Award for Service Excellence

The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry selected the Clinic’s Building Blocks: A Preschool-Linked Early Intervention Program as the recipient of its National Rieger Service Program Award for Excellence in 2003. This prestigious award recognizes innovative programs that address prevention, diagnosis or treatment of mental illness in children and adolescents. (For more on this award, please see the Winter 2004 edition of the Clinic’s newsletter, click here for pdf.)

Family-Focused Service Innovation Award

The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health awarded the Clinic’s Early Intervention and Community Wellness Division its Family-Focused Service Innovation Award in 2002.

Outstanding Program of the Year Award

The Los Angeles County Mental Health Commission named the Clinic’s Early Intervention and Community Wellness Division as its Outstanding Program of the Year in 2002.

The Clinic has received a three-year Commission of Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) national accreditation.  This accreditation demonstrates our quality services, dedicated staff and sound business practices.

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Honors Clinic Board Member David Hirsch

On January 27, 2004 Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke honored David Hirsch, 25-year Clinic board member and past Chairman of its Capital Campaign, with a formal Proclamation celebrating his outstanding leadership and volunteer service.