Family, Children, Community, Advisory, Council's (FCCAC) mission is to help alleviate child abuse by providing education, networking, training and advocating to the agencies, organizations, and families in Los Angeles County.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The goals of our council are to:

• Maintain and expand the skills and/or professional growth and development of service providers through workshops,seminars and community dialogue.
• Facilitate a more effective communication between community agencies via networking and coordination.
• Increase and facilitate the availability of culturally relevant child abuse related services.
• Advocate, review, and disseminate all legislation and funding resources related to family and/or child abuse issues.
• Increase identification, intervention and prevention of child abuse.
• Decrease the pervasiveness of maladaptive behavior in families at risk with positive intervention.
• Provide professional and financial resources to agencies, schools, organization in the community of Los Angeles County.

• Family, Children, Community, Advisory Council (FCCAC) was established in 1983 and incorporated in 1992 as a 501c3.
• The Los Angeles County-Department of Children and Family Services and Family (DCFS) and the Family, Children, Community, Advisory Council (FCCAC) worked co-jointly with the establishment of the Central Los Angeles Sexual Abuse Unit.
• DCFS and FCCAC also developed the Black Family Investment Project, which later provided the foundation for the Family Preservation units.
• FCCAC conducted fund rasiers to provide Christmas financial gifts to the Central Los Angeles Sexual Abuse Unit, The People Who Care Youth Center, The DCFS-Project 90044, Parents of Watts Health Center, four schalorships to graduating high school seniors.
• FCCAC has supported the women and children in the Jenesse Domestic Violence Shelter by donating a T.V., VCR, and clothes to the shelter.
• Donated T.V. and VCR to the Central Los Angeles Sexual Abuse Unit (CLASAU).
• FCCAC has held several conferences around cultural, ethnic, professional and community issues relating to child abuse and family violence prevention.

FCCAC meets at:
Watts Health Foundation
10300 S. Compton Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
in the MCH Conference Room the fourth Thursday of each month at 1:30 p.m.

Family, Children, Community, Advisory Council (FCCAC) welcomes your participation. Please fill out the follow form or click HERE for Acrobat PDF version:

The Los Angeles County
Family, Children, Community, Advisory Council
Sandra J. Guine, LCSW, ACSW
Child Abuse Consultant
600 S. Commonwealth Ave., 800A
Los Angeles, CA 90005

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