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Actor Robert Patrick and Fellow Motorcycle Riders Bring Cheer to Hillsides Children with Toy Ride

12.20.17

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20, 2017 - Actor Robert Patrick of the CBS show “Scorpion” and some 125 fellow riders from the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club Chapter 101 took part in a toy ride this weekend for Hillsides, a foster care charity. The riders rode from Santa Clarita to Hillsides main campus in Pasadena with several truckloads of holiday toys for the children and families Hillsides, with its affiliate Bienvenidos, serves.

Holiday Toy Collection Boxes for Hillsides Placed in San Gabriel Valley Starbucks Stores

12.11.17

LOS ANGELES, December 11, 2017 -- This holiday season, Hillsides, a Southern California mental health and foster care charity, has collaborated with Starbucks to place holiday toy collection boxes in 63 Starbucks stores throughout the San Gabriel Valley. The boxes will be in selected stores from December 8 - 11 through Christmas, and customers are encouraged to drop off unwrapped toys at any participating Starbucks.

Hillsides Hosts Sold-Out Holiday Celebration at the Parkway Grill

12.6.17

LOS ANGELES, CA December 6, 2017 – On December 5, the Hillsides Guild, a support group of the foster care charity Hillsides, hosted a sold-out holiday celebration at the Parkway Grill in Pasadena, California. Some 150 guests enjoyed cocktails, appetizers, dinner and a holiday performance by the renowned Citrus Singers of Citrus College in the holiday-adorned restaurant often referred to as "the Spago of Pasadena.” The dinner was co-chaired by Guild members Donna De Mond and Patty McAllister. Hillsides President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph M. Costa welcomed the crowd, and the Rt.

Hillsides Wins Two Awards at PRSA Los Angeles Awards Show Recognizing the Best in LA Public Relations

12.4.17

LOS ANGELES, December 4, 2017 -- Hillsides, a Southern California foster care charity, won a PRism Award for Feature Stories and an Award for Excellence in Public Service for the nonprofit category at the 53 Annual PRism Awards Show held by the Public Relations Society of America, Los Angeles Chapter (PRSA-LA) in Los Angeles on November 29.

Hillsides Launches Holiday Adopt-A-Family Program

11.30.17

LOS ANGELES, November 30, 2017 – Last December, Rosa* and her family of six children had given up hope that the holidays would be joyful. Rosa, recently free from an abusive relationship, could barely afford a one-bedroom apartment where all seven slept on one mattress or on the floor. Buying presents for her children or providing a holiday meal would be an impossible financial stretch.

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Family Resource Centers

Our centers provide parenting classes, mental health support, and additional crucial resources for vulnerable children and families. In addition, we offer school-based mental health services in the Pasadena, Los Angeles, Baldwin Park, and Glendale/Burbank school districts.

Youth Moving On

Hillsides' innovative transitional living and permanent housing programs give young adults the job training, financial know-how, and the counseling they need to find fulfilling careers and become responsible, self-sufficient adults.

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Our staff of committed teachers help students refocus their energies and achieve newfound academic success through small classes, personalized attention, and progressive lesson plans.

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