Visit the FOCUS on Foster Families Web Portal

Visit the FOCUS on Foster Families web portal for FREE access to videos, testimonials, and tools designed for foster youth and caregivers. Find the right resource at the right time to help you build a stronger family!

A mobile resource is also available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Strengthening Families in Innovative Ways

Download the newest version of FOCUS on the Go! for FREE today from the iTunes App Store or Google Play Store!

Comprehensive Care for Wounded Warriors

Operation Mend brings the best of the military's resources with the expertise of the UCLA Health System to United States military personnel wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The comprehensive program optimizes healing for warriors and their families.

Supporting Veterans with Community-Level Services

With support from the McCormick Foundation and Major League Baseball, the Welcome Back Veterans Family Resilience Center works with community organizations to support and serve Veterans, National Guard, and their families. The program connects families with many types of services coordinated across providers within the civilian environment.

A Comfortable Place for Families

The Nathanson Family Resource Center welcomes families with children in the UCLA Resnick Hospital or day programs to come relax in our computer lounge and learn in our resource library.

FOCUS on Family Strengths

Families OverComing Under Stress™ (FOCUS) is a resiliency training program for families facing challenges. Customizable skill-building sessions help families to improve communication, set goals and build a shared family story.

Resiliency Training for Military Families

FOCUS services are available to military families and personnel on selected military bases and installations. With convenient hours and linkages to local partners, including chaplains, health providers, and school staff, FOCUS is easily accessible and adaptable.

Caring for Families and their Infants

The UCLA Family Development Project helps family members to support each other and meet the needs of their infant. Participants gain access to comprehensive pre- and postnatal health care, weekly home visits and mother-infant group sessions.

Training for Department of Mental Health Providers

A recent partnership with the Los Angeles County DMH brings Families FOCUS Family Resiliency Training™ program training to DMH staff. This initiative supports DMH community outreach with military and veteran families.

Planting SEEDS with Parents and Caregivers

Through the Strategies for Enhancing Early Developmental Success (SEEDS) Program, birth, foster, and adoptive parents and relative caregivers are better prepared to care for young children with early developmental challenges in the child welfare system.

STRIVE-ing to Keep Families Together

Targeting newly homeless youth, Project STRIVE is a family-based intervention that aims to improve residential stability and to reduce the number of runaway episodes by promoting positive family-child interactions.

Expert Care for Stress, Trauma and Resilience

The expert team of psychiatrists and psychologists at the UCLA Family STAR Clinic specialize in child and family traumatic stress and resilience care for children of all ages and their family members. The center also offers educational resources and training for providers.

Re-connecting in the Great Outdoors

National Military Family Association Operation Purple® Camps bring families together in beautiful National Park settings. During the four-day retreats, families have opportunities to communicate, work as a team, and reconnect while exploring and learning about the environment.

News

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine launches new report on Military Family Wellbeing

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a new report examining challenges and... Read more

National Home Visiting Resource Center recognizes FOCUS-EC as an innovative effort to connect military families to home visiting services

The National Home Visiting Resource Center recognizes UCLA’S Families OverComing Under Stress for Early Childhood (... Read more

Program Spotlight

	Family Development Project Helping family members to support each other and to effectively recognize and meet the needs of their infant
	UCLA NFRC Training Institute Delivering training to providers in the needs of Military Families and implementation of the FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) Model.
	Veteran Family Wellness Center Located at the West Los Angeles VA, this center serves veterans and their families, including parents, couples and kids.
	UCLA Family STAR Clinic Providing consultation, prevention, and treatment services for children and families affected by trauma and stress

About Us

Our mission at the UCLA Nathanson Family Resilience Center is to bridge the gap between research and practice to help families become more resilient in the face of challenges.

Featured Team Member

Patricia Lester, M.D.

Dr. Lester is the Director of the Nathanson Family Resilience Center, Medical Director of the Child and Family Trauma Service, and the Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Professor of Psychiatry

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