February 9, 2011, Los Angeles, CA – Ettie Lee Youth & Family Services a Los Angeles based foster family agency has received $25,000 from the Rose Hills Foundation for the after-care services in their residential program. These after-care services funds will allow Ettie Lee to provide the much needed support after a youth returns home. In many cases, prior to the youth’s leaving Ettie Lee, their families have also been involved in their treatment increasing the success of the youth’s homecoming.

For more than 60 years Ettie Lee has served the complex needs of at-risk youth with emotional and behavioral problems and their families in Southern California. When Miss Ettie Lee opened the first group home in 1950 she introduced the model of providing a family atmosphere. Although Ettie Lee has grown significantly since 1950, providing a family atmosphere has been so successful that we still follow that model in all of our nine group homes and 30 foster homes. Last year Ettie Lee served 342 unduplicated boys and girls and their families: 69% were Hispanic, 17% African-American, 11.5% Caucasian, 1.3% Asian/Pacific Islander; .4% American Indian; .8% other and over 97% were from low-income and/or disadvantaged families.

Ettie Lee’s residential group homes expertise is in serving older children – teenage boys (aged 13-18) – who are on probation. All of group homes are located in residential areas and provide family-style residential treatment that focuses on the importance of being active in the community to develop the skills for success in life. Ettie Lee also operates a therapeutic Foster Family Agency and Adoption Agency. It is located in Covina and the boys and girls are placed in the loving homes of foster parents who are trained and licensed.