Reuniting Children With Their Families

Read more about the children we serve and their stories:

	Katie's Story Yolo Crisis Nursery Steps in to Help. » Read this Story

Maricel's Story Severe Neglect, Trauma Make Her Suicidal » Read this Story

	Todd's Story Youth Counselor at Camp: New Role Reveals Strengths. » Read this Story

	Megan's Story School-based program turns teen's life around. » Read this Story

Sergio's Story Foster Santa brings a big suprise. » Read this Story

	Tony's Story Abandoned Teen Finds His Family. » Read this Story

	Adrian's Story Adrian wants to be the country’s first African-American female President. » Read this Story

Hannah's Story Her loneliness ended, Hannah welcomed home by her extended family just in time for the holidays. » Read this Story

	Savannah's Story Foster Mom Holds, Heals Broken Child. » Read this Story

	Patrick's Story Hollygrove and Mentor Turn a Boy's Life Around. » Read this Story

Sheila's Story Nursery Eases the Guilt, Worry and Strain. » Read this Story

	Julio's Story State Funding Helps When Boy is Scared, Lonely. » Read this Story

	Angela's Story Family Finding Connects Lonely Foster Teen. » Read this Story

Dean's Story From 'born to be in jail' to success in life... » Read this Story

	Antonio's Story Antonio was on the road to kindergarten when his teacher became concerned that he was frequently absent. » Read this Story

	Bryan's Story Bryan was just 7 years old and already angry. At school, he was using profanity, getting into fights and failing most of his subjects. » Read this Story

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Confidentiality of EMQ FamiliesFirst children and families has been preserved
through the use of models. Some stories may be composites of multiple cases.

Preserving the family, healing the child

At EMQ FamiliesFirst we believe children need families, not institutions.Our Wraparound program is an innovative family-centered, community-based program, serving children who have been, or are at risk of being, removed from their family because of serious emotional and behavior challenges. EMQ FamiliesFirst works to keep these families together—providing support to build safe and healthy family connections, while teaching new approaches to solving problems. EMQ FamiliesFirst is the leading provider of children’s mental health and social services in California, helping more than 18,000 children and family members annually. Our mission is mission is to do whatever it takes to help children, strengthen families, build communities and advocate for change.

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