Community-based mental health

Luminarias Institute Inc. (LII) is proud to partner with nineteen Los Angeles-based charter schools to provide accessible and effective on-site mental health treatment to students. These partnerships include:

• Bert Corona Charter Schools:

  • Middle School (BCCMS)

  • High School (BCCHS)

• Monseñor Oscar Romero Charter School

• New Academy Schools:

  • Science and Art (NASA)

  • Canoga Park (NACP)

• Multicultural Learning Center

• Montague Charter Academy

• Discovery Charter Prep

• The Vaughn Street Schools:

  • Pandaland

  • G3

  • Mainland

  • MIT

  • VISA

• Los Angeles Mission College

• Environmental Charter Schools:

  • Middle School ( ECMS Gardena)

  • High School (ECHS Gardena)

  • Middle School (ECMS Inglewood)

  • High School (ECHS Lawndale)

• Assurance Distance Learning Center

Since its inception, LII has provided mental health treatment to thousdands of students and families, making a meaningful difference in their lives.

LII created partnerships with local graduate level programs throughout Southern California in its efforts to offer opportunities for a new generation of culturally competent mental health practitioners, as they harness the skills necessary to provide individual and group therapy to local underserved communities.

Site collaborations were created to ensure that Luminarias could conduct services where the clients were already at i.e school campuses and community centers.

LII offers direct access to local communities to ensure that our trainees and interns get real world experience with underserved populations to better prepare them for the needs of local communities here and abroad. These challenges force growth and understanding between classroom theory and practical application of community psychology principles.