Reuniting Children With Their Families

The EMQ FamiliesFirst Family Finding program helps children find more lasting, permanent, and loving homes.

Read more about the children we serve and their stories:

	Twins' Story "If they don't bond they will be broken forever..." » Read this Story

Alex and Teo's Story For the first time in years, Alex, Teo and their mom have their own place to call home. » Read this Story

	Ernie's Story At age two, Ernie was removed from the home of his drug-addicted mother. » Read this Story

Hernan's Story Hernan - now a college student - credits his success to the Wraparound program. » Read this Story

	Connor's Story "We were parents, not therapists. So, we knew he needed much more than we could provide.." » Read this Story

Jack's Story Tagging, cutting, depressed and acting out, Jack was headed for gang life. » Read this Story

Sara's Story Sara's sister died of cancer four years ago. Sara had been grieving since that time... » 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

Emily's Story "I was masking my emotional hurt with the physical hurt that cutting (myself) gave me." » Read this Story

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

Javier's Story 6-year-old Javier was hearing voices telling him to harm himself... » Read this Story

	Ethan's Story "He had been experiencing delusions and hallucinations." » 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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