List of Ethinc Specific Social Services Agencies Includes website and phone numbers

 Ethnicity Specific Social Services Organizations

This list is by no means meant to be complete.  It is a short and general guide.  If you have additional resources to include, please let me know and if I forgot to add an ethnic group I apologize.

Almost all of the social services organizations will have people who speak Spanish in order to serve their clients, but here are a couple of resources that are Spanish/ Latino specific: 

Spanish Resource Organization http://www.latinoresource.org/about.html

Latino Resource Organization  610 California Ave.  Venice, CA. 90291

Phone:      310.578.6069

Fax:          310.578.0490

www.latinoresource.org

 

Child & Family Services  815 El Centro Ave., Los Angeles, CA
1 (855) 272 4458

www.emqff.org

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Services for children who are mentally & emotionally troubled

Watts Labor Action Committee

10950 S. Central Ave.  Watts, CA 90059

Phone: (323) 563-5639
 http://www.wlcac.org/contact.htm             Email: wlcac09@gmail.com

 WLAC offers services for African Americans:    Youth and Family services, Employment services, transportation, homeless services, senior services, handy worker projects to name a few.

FAME - First African Methodist Episcopal Church

www.famechurch.org

2270 South Harvard Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90018

(323) 730-9199

FAME offers services for African Americans:  Free Legal Clinic, Social Services, food pantry, exercise programs, help with foster care and adoptions, financial literacy program.  This is a very large 19,000 + membership and very active in their community.You +1'd this publicly. Undo

Little Tokyo Service Center

www.ltsc.org

G-106, 231 E 3rd St   Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 473-3030

All Asian Pacific Islanders languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese

Chinatown Service Center

http://www.cscla.org

They have a youth center and provide child care, social services, senior services, and affordable housing.  Several offices around the county:

Main Office
767 N. Hill Street, Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 808-1700
Fax: (213) 680-0787

Armenian Relief Society of Western USA, Inc.

517 W. Glenoaks, Blvd. Glendale, CA 91202

Telephone:  (818) 500-1343  Fax:  (818) 242-3732

http://www.arswestusa.org

Offers:  youth services, day care, after school programs, senior services, counseling services, assistance to survivors of disasters, tuition assistance to students attending Armenian schools and scholarships for college.

Korean American Family Service Center

3727 West 6th Street, Suite 320
Los Angeles, CA 90020
(Corner of Harvard and 6th)

Telephone  (213) 389-6755         Fax  (213) 389-5172

http://www.kafscla.org

Iranian /Farsi speaking services:

          Iranian Jewish Senior Center

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Iranian Jewish Senior Center. Address: 8764 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles CA 90035; Phone: (310) 652-3555.

 
YARAN:

 www.jfsla.org  (877) 275-4537

Yaran serves all Persian speaking individuals, and provides services including social service information and referral, family/mental health issues, domestic violence counseling, substance abuse counseling, and domestic violence assistance.

Vietnamese

Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce Of Orange County 
16511 Brookhurst Street, Suite B
Fountain Valley, CA 92708

PHONE:
714-775-6050 office
888-308-9730 fax

http://vacoc.com/index.php

CONTACT BY E-MAIL:
Info@vacoc.com    

                                        Also see Little Tokyo Service Center above listing

Russian Speaking Community

City of West Hollywood: 

8300 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069

Telephone:  (323) 848- 6400 ask to speak to the Russian Outreach Coordinator.

http://www.weho.org/index.aspx?page=869