1736 Family Crisis Center was the first agency in Los Angeles County to develop a transitional shelter program model for improving abused women's long-term safety and success.

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1736 Family Crisis Center is one of the few agencies in Los Angeles County that shelters pregnant battered women as well as battered women with their children (girls and boys) up to age seventeen.

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While many domestic violence shelter programs limit family size, 1736 Family Crisis Center welcomes large families.

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Women who reside in 1736 Family Crisis Center's emergency and transitional domestic violence shelters are encouraged to have jobs. (Some emergency domestic violence shelters discourage the women to work for safety reasons.)

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1736 Family Crisis Center CEO and Executive Director Carol Adelkoff recently concluded six years' service as the elected chair of the City of Los Angeles Domestic Violence Task Force. Other staff participate in the Los Angeles County Domestic Violence Council and are also active in a variety of other strategic local and regional policy-making and professional associations.

During 2002 – 1736 Family Crisis Center increased the number of available child-youth shelter beds by 45%

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In 2001, 1736 Family Crisis Center tripled its capacity for non-residential aftercare for former shelter residents and outpatient counseling, case management, domestic violence job development services, and other critical aid by relocating, in March and September, our three community service centers to larger facilities

In 2002, 1736 Family Crisis Center arranged for children under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to make weekend visits to their mothers, who are working to rebuild their lives in our domestic violence shelters.

There is a growing DCFS trend to remove children from domestic violence homes under a "failure to protect" directive. This places women in the devastating situation of knowing that, if they call for help to protect themselves and their children from a batterer, they risk losing their children. Yet the threats are so grave that sometimes they take that chance.

DCFS may choose to return the children to the mothers following an unspecified period during which weekend visitation is permitted. For a shelter program, this procedure poses significant logistical challenges. Thus far, the results have been well worth the effort, as a number of mothers in our care have regained custody of their children.

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Thanks to a generous private donation, children and teens in 1736 Family Crisis Center shelters and community service centers receive a personalized, festive birthday cake to share with family and friends. These cakes are provided to help children and teens celebrate radiantly joyful birthdays (sometimes for the first time in their lives).

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In November 2001, 1736 Family Crisis Center expanded and enhanced healing and recreational art activities for fragile youngsters through the piloting of Heart-to-Art, our first in-house children’s art program.

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Owing to the evidence-based, highly successful outcomes of our programs to help survivors of domestic violence achieve optimal psychological and professional functioning, the California Office of Criminal Justice Planning Domestic Violence Branch designated 1736 Family Crisis Center as one of two Showcase Agencies recommended to the Governor in 2001.


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In 1999, 1736 Family Crisis Center was awarded one of six grants nationwide in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Welfare-to-Work initiative to help battered women successfully transition from welfare to work. Since then, job training and job placement services have helped almost 300 battered women transcend welfare and build careers.

When this program began, community employment partners were limited to the office technology field. Today, we work with employers across Los Angeles County in various sectors including medical billing, convalescent homes, office technology, and retail.

1736 Family Crisis Center is the only domestic violence service provider in Los Angeles County that received the U.S. Department of Labor’s Welfare-to-Work grant. The Center is sharing the fruits of this funding and helping close service gaps among regional domestic violence providers by connecting their clients with employment leads. Our outreach to other domestic violence service helps upgrade the employment services that all Los Angeles County domestic violence service providers can call upon.

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A Youth Advisory Board made up of former youth services clients and community youth provides input on all aspects of 1736 Family Crisis Center youth services. These former youth services clients also perform peer counseling. These sessions allow young people currently in the Center’s care to benefit from the compassionate support and insights of those who survived similarly painful circumstances. Peer counseling also helps ensure the high performance of our youth shelter program.

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Another recent 1736 Family Crisis Center youth program augmentation is "Last stop before jail" counseling and preventive education at our Los Angeles community service center for Los Angeles Police Department-referred juveniles who have been arrested.