Tacoma & Pierce County's Counseling and Early Educators

Child & Family Guidance Center is recognized as a leader in Pierce County in the field of community-based outpatient mental health services. More than 7,000 individuals turn to the Center in moments of crisis each year. Many come from extremely low income backgrounds and had no other access to essential mental health or early education services. In some cases, the services we provided resulted in saving lives.

We Strengthen Families through early childhood education, mental health recovery for young victims of abuse and neglect, and family support services in coordination with our community partners. We have been at work with young children and families in Tacoma since the organization was known as Associated Charities, founded in 1895. The mission of Child & Family Guidance Center is: We strengthen families by inspiring courage and confidence to make a lasting change. Tacoma Learning Center (TLC), founded as an agency in 1981, recently became a program of Child & Family Guidance Center, providing comprehensive early learning and cooperative preschool to children, ages birth to 3, specializing with developmental and learning delays. The merger between CFGC and the TLC paved the way for an organization-wide team that is well equipped to work strengthening the whole family in the whole of Pierce County. Key elements of this partnership include early childhood education and therapy services, parent education, marriage and family counseling, and providing access to any resources needed for families in diverse situations to experience success raising healthy children prepared for life-long learning.

Child & Family Guidance Center has gained a respected reputation for our focused attention to the needs of all families and our outstanding masters internship training program. Please contact us anytime to set up an appointment, volunteer, or make a donation.

For a further look at our work, see the "I'm Not Who I Was" video

Thanks for taking a look at our work!

David Duea

President & CEO

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