Children and Youth Program

The Children and Youth Program includes individual counseling sessions, group counseling, and educational/support groups at several high schools. The program also offers domestic violence and sexual assault prevention education, and a therapeutic art program called A Window Between Worlds (AWBW) where children and teens create art projects.

• Ages: 0–18 years old

Monarch Services was founded in 1977. The organization’s mission statement is “Lives free from violence and abuse.” All crisis intervention and prevention services connected to this work are available in Spanish and English and are described as culturally sensitive, and printed materials are available in both Spanish and English. Monarch Services offers immediate crisis response to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking through a 24-hour confidential, bilingual crisis line and currently serves approximately 1,500 victims of domestic violence and sexual assault each year. In 1987, the agency became one of the first Rape Crisis Centers to be funded in California and was involved in developing and implementing one of the first Sexual Assault Response Teams in the nation. Monarch Services states a commitment to serving everyone in the community, with a special commitment to women, youth, children, Latinas and other under served groups, and its outreach efforts have focused on poor Latino neighborhoods with barriers such as language, literacy, legal status issues, and cultural biases. Monarch Services also states that it embraces the spirit of cultural humility by understanding and dismantling systematic oppression through a lifelong commitment to self-reflection and self-critique of one’s own power and privilege in society.

Last updated June 25, 2026.