Children and Youth Program – A Window Between Worlds Therapeutic Art
233 East Lake Avenue, Watsonville, CA 95076
About
The Children and Youth Program – A Window Between Worlds Therapeutic Art includes individual counseling sessions, group counseling, and creating art projects through a therapeutic art program called A Window Between Worlds (AWBW). The program also includes educational and support groups at several high schools, along with domestic violence prevention education and sexual assault prevention education.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
The Children and Youth Program is part of Monarch Services, which was founded in 1977 and in 1987 became one of the first Rape Crisis Centers to be funded in California. Monarch Services was also instrumental in developing and implementing one of the first Sexual Assault Response Teams in the nation. The organization’s mission statement is “Lives free from violence and abuse.” The Children and Youth Program operates within an agency that offers a 24-hour confidential, bilingual Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Crisis Line, with all crisis intervention and prevention services available in Spanish and English and supported by printed materials in both languages. Program staff conduct educational and support groups at several high schools, and the program uses the AWBW therapeutic art approach to offer children and teens a different medium by which to express themselves. Monarch Services states a commitment to serving everyone in the community, with a special focus on women, youth, children, Latinas, and other underserved groups, and describes its outreach efforts as concentrating on poor Latino neighborhoods where residents face barriers such as language, literacy, legal status issues, and cultural biases. The organization identifies Laura Segura as associated with leading Monarch Services and 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 March 25, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
The Children and Youth Program is part of Monarch Services, which was founded in 1977 and in 1987 became one of the first Rape Crisis Centers to be funded in California. Monarch Services was also instrumental in developing and implementing one of the first Sexual Assault Response Teams in the nation. The organization’s mission statement is “Lives free from violence and abuse.” The Children and Youth Program operates within an agency that offers a 24-hour confidential, bilingual Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Crisis Line, with all crisis intervention and prevention services available in Spanish and English and supported by printed materials in both languages. Program staff conduct educational and support groups at several high schools, and the program uses the AWBW therapeutic art approach to offer children and teens a different medium by which to express themselves. Monarch Services states a commitment to serving everyone in the community, with a special focus on women, youth, children, Latinas, and other underserved groups, and describes its outreach efforts as concentrating on poor Latino neighborhoods where residents face barriers such as language, literacy, legal status issues, and cultural biases. The organization identifies Laura Segura as associated with leading Monarch Services and 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 March 25, 2026.
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