MHALA

Our new name – Mental Health America of Los Angeles – reflects our commitment to promote mental health recovery and wellness. In collaboration with our national affiliate and its 320 community affiliates across the country, our purpose is to help everyone achieve wellness – whether the need is recovery from mental illness or is occasional and caused by everyday life. Our message is simple – good mental health is fundamental to the health and well-being of everyone in Los Angeles County.

Join the Mental Health America of Los Angeles today! Your donation helps young adults and adults with mental illness live with quality and equality.

With cornerstones of service, education, advocacy and training, Mental Health America of Los Angeles (MHA) works to ensure that people with mental illness reach their rightful place as participating, productive members of our community. Our service sites are located in Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Antelope Valley.

MHA unites the public and professionals, people with mental illness and their parents to advance acceptance and achievement for people with mental illness. We serve adults, including those who have been homeless, and young adults, concentrating on those who are leaving foster care. We help individuals across our county with an information and assistance team, peer support networks and a toll-free peer support telephone line. Through our workforce development and training projects, we help train professionals in our “integrated service” model of recovery and teach the mental health workforce of tomorrow.

Founded in 1924, MHA is one of the county’s oldest nonprofit mental health organizations and an affiliate of the national Mental Health America, and the Mental Health Association in California.

What’s New at MHA?

MHA and Clifford Beers Housing "sound" off
with thanks to the sponsors and supporters
of our Harmony: Music for Mental Health benefit!

We've held our 12th chamber music concert given by musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. A standing ovation goes to Mitchell Newman, Philharmonic violinist and Harmony creator, and his colleagues: Jin-Shan Dai, Meredith Snow, Barry Gold and Ann Marie Gabriel.

Our event featured Gary Small, M.D., and Gigi Vorgan, authors of the bestseller, “The Memory Bible.”.

The dessert reception – hosted by our MHA Village and its Village Cookie Shoppe – was made possible with the “sweet” support of restaurants, bakeries and chefs in the greater Long Beach, California, area.

We were honored to have tremendous sponsorships for our event. Please read our news section for more details.

Serve people with mental illness in recovery, peer support and housing models that help them move from isolated, dependent lives to involved, independent lives. The “Long Beach Reads One Book 2010” annual citywide event has chosen The Soloist by Steve Lopez as its event. Our MHA Village, featured in the book, will participate in Book Week activities. (more) Our Antelope Valley Services has received a grant from the Boeing Company to reach out to military personnel who are retuning home, veterans and their families. (more)	Educate to improve access to care, awareness of mental illness as treatable and acceptance of people with this illness. Need help right away? Contact our Information and Assistance team by phone or e-mail. Necesita ayuda ahora? Communicate con nuestro Equipo de Informacion y Asistencia por telefono o carta electronica. Looking for mental health peer support? Call Project Return Peer Support Network’s Friendship Line run by and for people with mental illness.

Advocate with others who care about our cause to abolish discrimination in funding, health care, jobs and housing. What's new with mental health on the state and national level? Click here to find out what's going on and how you can help. (more).	Train mental health professionals, agencies and systems who want to learn about and use our integrated services and self-help models and our “quality of life” outcomes system. We have a range of “immersion trainings” that offer hands-on experience in the principles and practices of our MHA Village. (more).

Mental Health America of Los Angeles

Administration Offices

100 W. Broadway, Suite 5010

Long Beach, CA 90802-2310
888-242-2522, ext. 225