San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc.
Chief Executive: Tim Ryder, MBA
Year Founded: 1970
Location: Van Nuys
The San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc. is dedicated to improving the mental health of individuals and families within the greater San Fernando Valley community. This is achieved by providing effective and culturally sensitive therapeutic services based on each consumer’s individualized needs, strengths and choices. Programs serve infants, toddlers, children, adolescents and transition age youth diagnosed with serious emotional disorders, in addition to adults and older adults diagnosed with mental illness. The center is committed to treating all consumers with dignity and enhancing their quality of life. Through its programs and services, it strives to facilitate and encourage the development of each consumer to their highest level of functioning and potential including vocational opportunities; and provide effective and culturally sensitive therapeutic services based on each consumer’s individualized needs, strengths and choices. The center also promotes the highest level of social inclusion and community integration for all persons served.