Westside Children's Center

The Westside Infant-Family Network (WIN) provides free, private, in-home infant mental health (IMH) therapy for families in collaboration with Westside Children’s Center, St. Joseph Center and Venice Family Clinic.  Bilingual, masters-level therapists work with young children (prenatal through 3+) and parents whose relationships have been disrupted by trauma, neglect and mental illness to affect substantive, measurable improvement in 1) secure attachment behaviors, 2) children’s social, emotional and cognitive development, and 3) parental stress.  While WIN therapists work, partner agency case managers ensure that families get intensive, cross-agency early care, social services and health clinic support before therapy and throughout the therapeutic process, such that unmet critical needs don’t interrupt treatment.  The entire network of services are managed in “real time” via WIN’s communications infrastructure and web-based data system to make sure families facing substantial challenges get what they need, when they need it.  The two-year grant from W. M. Keck Foundation will help WIN sustain these services and add individual, in-home adult therapy – key to long-term family transformation, as the program transitions to independence and establishes itself as  a long-term resource for the community.