Community Collaboration
Launched in 1997, the Center for Healthier Communities (CHC) mission is to identify and provide innovative solutions to the community's unmet health needs with a focus on collaboration and coalition building. Through high quality prevention education and treatment services, CHC strives to promote healthy behaviors and improve the quality of life for residents of the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys. The phone number to reach the Center is (818) 785-3489.
The Center's current programs include:
Center for Assault Treatment Services
Center for Assault Treatment Services (CATS) is the only program in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys that provides victims of physical and sexual abuse with medical treatment, forensic evidence collection and counseling 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week. CATS' outreach component provides child abuse reporting training to professionals, who are required by law to report any reasonable suspicion of child abuse
Los Angeles County’s First Family Justice Center Now Open!
Abuse victims can now take back their lives with help from the Valley CARES Family Justice Center -- the first of its kind in Los Angeles County. The Center offers support and services in a safe and comforting place for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.
Victims receive help from the Valley CARES Family Justice Center’s unique collaboration of Advocates, Civil Legal Services, Counselors, Law Enforcement, Child Social Workers, Prosecutors and Forensic Nurse Examiners. Victims can meet with Legal Professionals, receive crisis intervention, and obtain information on shelters and other helpful resources—all while their children play safely in the next room. .
School-based Obesity and Diabetes Initiative
The School-based Obesity and Diabetes Initiative (SODI) was launched to help local public schools improve the health status of its student body and staff. School wellness of the five participating schools is assessed, corrective plans developed and resources identified to address each schools’ unmet needs with a focus on diabetes and obesity.
