We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. We envision a world in which children and young adults, families, and communities are able to heal, grow, and thrive.
Hillsides has five core programs that offer a depth and breadth of innovative services for at-risk children and their families. Our integrated team of experts work together to provide the highest quality care and treatment to achieve positive, lasting change. Our programs are widely known and respected in the child welfare community:
Residential Treatment Services
We provide a safe and stable environment in our short-term residential therapeutic program for children and youth who cannot live at home, who have suffered trauma, or who have severe emotional, psychological, and behavioral challenges requiring specialized care and treatment.
Hillsides Education Center
As a therapeutic residential and day school, we offer individualized education for students with social-emotional, learning, or behavior challenges for children in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Family Resource Centers
We partner with communities and schools throughout Los Angeles County to offer at-risk families and children counseling, parenting classes, mental health support, and additional resources to secure family environments.
Foster Care and Adoption
We provide treatment and adoptions services included in the home-based care to children and youth ranging from newborn to 21 years old from all backgrounds.
Youth Moving On
With support from the Everychild Foundation, YMO provides former foster youth affordable quality housing and numerous support services to help them transition successfully to adulthood.
Hillsides Operations During COVID
Please note that Hillsides is designated an essential service provider by the county due to the ongoing need to operate our residential facilities and provide essential community support. Therefore, some of our facilities remain open with limited or restricted hours and other services are only being offered remotely if they can be.
Our support services office located at 815 Colorado Street is open at a limited capacity for pre-arranged business and for vendors that do business with Hillsides. Face masks and temperature screenings are required for anyone entering the offices.
Our campus-based services located at 940 Avenue 64 in Pasadena are closed to the general public but open on a limited basis for relatives visiting youth in our care and vendors doing business with Hillsides. Face masks and temperature screening are required for anyone entering the offices.
Our Family Resource Centers are open on a limited basis, please call (323) 543-2800 for an overview of available services and resources.
Our Peer Resource Center remains open for services, please call (626) 765-6010 for direct assistance.