Centro La Familia’s victim’s advocacy division advocates for victims in their crucial time of need with the goal of helping families rebuild their lives. Often time individuals need the support and encouragement but have nowhere to turn to. Centro La Familia becomes this support. Our staff understands the sensitivity of each client and provides support for restraining order assistance, safety planning, and court accompaniment.

Centro La Familia understands the stresses that can accompany parenting life and the challenges families face. Through its parenting program division Centro offers families an outside perspective to find new ways of addressing parenting skills, and challenging situations. The parenting program division aims to strengthen families through outreach education; teaching parents they are their child’s first teacher. Parents gain knowledge through structured parenting classes designed to foster growth and development, and enhance a family’s knowledge of positive parenting skills and child development.

Health and wellness is an important factor in a family’s well-being. Maintaining positive family health can be challenging when a family is ill equipped and cannot access needed information and resources. Through the health and wellness division Centro La Familia provides families the tools to learn positive family health.

These programs are made possible by grants from the following funders:

Aetna Foundation, California Pan Ethnic Health Network, California Family Resource Association, California Poison Control System, California Public Utilities Commission through Self Help for the Elderly, County of Fresno: Dept. of Social Services & Dept. of Behavioral Health, Dept. of Justice-Legal Assistance for Victims, First 5 Fresno County, Hands On-Central California-AmeriCorp, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Immigration Legal Resource Center, Kaiser Permanente, Public Health Trust, Central Valley Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, The California Endowment, The City of Fresno, and United Way.

Community Partners

Anthem Blue Cross, Central California Legal Services, Resource Center for Survivors, Fresno Interdenominational Refugees, Ministry, Inc., Health Net (Children’s Health Initiative), Marjaree Mason Center, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness