- 211
2-1-1 provides free and confidential information and referrals.
- Associated Clinical Therapists Inc.
ACT is a Community Agency designed to provide Individuals, Couples and Families with Confidential, Safe, Peaceful settings to examine various issues that interfere with their abilities to positively move forward in their lives.
- The Boys and Girls Club of San Bernardino
(909) 888-6751
Offers club programs and services to promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and influence.
- California Youth Connection (CYC)
CYC is guided, focused and driven by current and former foster youth with the assistance of committed community members. They promote the participation of foster youth in policy development and legislative change to improve the foster care system.
- California Youth Crisis Line
(909) 843-5200
They offer a 24-hour hotline for runaway and homeless youth, and crisis calls. They also provide crisis intervention counseling, and referrals to resource agencies for shelter, transportation, medical care, legal aid or counseling in the area where the call originates.
- Child Abuse Hotline
1-800-827-8724
To report Child Abuse:
In the San Bernardino area call: 384-9233
Outside of the San Bernardino area call: 1-800-827-8724
- Children and Family Services
Children and Family Services mission is to protect children, offer services to stabilize families to remain together, provide permanency for children if they cannot remain safely in their own home and strive to make the lives of children and families better.
- Children’s Network
The goal of the Children’s Network is to help “children at risk” by improving communications, planning, coordination and cooperation among youth serving agencies; identifying gaps and overlaps in services; providing a forum for clarifying perceptions and expectations among agencies and between agencies and the community; setting priorities for interagency projects; and implementing collaborative programs, public and private, to better served children and youth.
- Choices Clinic
(909) 888-3100
Choices Clinic seeks to help young women and their partners by providing medical and counseling services in addition to life skills mentoring programs in order to offer the necessary assistance they require when faced with an unexpected pregnancy.
- Community Action Partnership
- Establishing innovative programs that provide families with a safe and healthy environment.
- Challenging individuals to achieve positive results towards personal and collective prosperity.
- Promoting personal growth and creating opportunities for asset building.
- Family Resource Center
(909) 875-5288 / center4healing.org
They serve children and families in San Bernardino County, offering parenting classes, anger management classes, and various forms of therapy.
- Forward Focus Youth Enrichment Center
(888) 440-4428 / fwdfocus.org
Forward Focus Youth Enrichment Center provides high-quality youth services and enrichment programs that are engaging, educational, and entertaining.
- Foster Youth Services (FYS)
(909) 386-2917 / sbcss.k12.ca.us
The purpose of FYS is to meet the unique educational needs of children and youth in foster care, or in homeless situations, by providing advocacy and other services designed to encourage student academic and personal success.
- Gang Reduction Intervention Team
(909) 793-7746
They offer behavior modification, youth empowerment, cognitive provoking exercises, gang intervention training, health education and training.
- Independent Living Program (ILP)
ILP program designed to provide basic life skills, career exploration and job readiness preparation for foster teens.
- Inland Valley Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services (IVRS)
(909) 932-1069 / inlandvalleyrecovery.com
IVRS is a not-for-profit corporation that has been providing low to no-cost substance abuse recovery and counseling services.
- Kids Come First Community Clinic
(909) 673-9125
Offers low-cost and sliding scale healthcare for children and youth ages 0-18. Services include well child check-ups and physicals, weight management/nutrition classes, asthma classes, application assistance for Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Insurance Programs.
- Kids N Care
KidsNCare offers resources for parents, child care providers, and the community on behalf of children.
- Kinship Support Services
The Kinship Support Services Program helps strengthen families of individuals who are raising children of their extended family by providing them with information, community resources, education, and other services related to their needs.
- Music Changing Lives
Designed to offer mentorship programs for underprivileged and neglected children, helping them improve their chances of achieving a positive and successful life.
- Mustard Seed Tutorial Center
(909) 335-8678 / mustardseedtutorialcenter.org
Utilizing a goal-oriented, individualized approach, Mustard Seed helps children who are behind academically to improve to grade level at a cost.
- Office of the Ombudsman for Foster Care
1-877-846-1602 / fosteryouthhelp.ca.gov
The Foster Care Ombudsman’s Office investigates complaints about state and local agencies regarding foster care. They provide an independent forum for review and resolution of concerns related to the care, placement or services provided to children and youth place in foster care.
- Olive Branch Counseling Center
Provides high-quality, professional counseling to anyone in need.
- San Bernardino County Library
(909) 387-5720 / www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us
Offers a variety of services including reading clubs and arts and crafts.
- San Bernardino County Preschool Services
The Preschool Services Department is committed to improving the well-being of our children; preserving and empowering their families and strengthening the communities in which they grow.
- San Bernardino Family YMCA
(909) 881-9622 / ymcaeastvalley.org
- Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Center
(909) 387-7194
TAY works with foster youth between the ages of 16 and 25. The goal of the TAY Center is to assistance youth in becoming independent. The Center offers Independent Living Skills Classes, Therapy, Homeless Assistance, Employment and Transportation Assistance, GED/High School Diploma classes and much more.
- Trinity Youth Services
(909) 825-5588 / trinityys.org
Provides foster care, mental health services, therapy and residential/homes for children who have been victims of abuse, violence, neglect and abandonment.
- Urban Conservation Corps of the Inland Empire
The San Bernardino National Forest Association Urban Conservation Corps is a workforce development program that offers young men and women the chance to serve on the National Forest and become employable citizens through hard work in environmental conservation.
- The Unforgettables Foundation
An organization that assists families with the many crises surrounding the death of a child.
- Valley Star Children and Family Services
Dedicated to helping troubled children, adolescents and families, Valley Star uses individualized and highly flexible approaches that span school, family, and community environments.
- Youth Action Project
The Youth Action Project is a non-profit organization that works to empower San Bernardino’s youth to develop the skills and habits needed to experience economic and social success.
- The Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Center
(760) 948-3434
The mission of the YES center is to empower youth to successfully emancipate into society as independent and stable young adults.
- Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy
The organization’s purpose is to help enrich the lives of young people through life building activities and instruction in the areas of education, employment, health, mentoring, and community service.
- Wraparound
The Wraparound process provides individualized, comprehensive, community-based services and supports to children and adolescents with serious emotional and/or behavioral disturbances that are currently placed or at risk of being placed in an RCL 10-14 group home.