Overview
- Updated On:
- June 18, 2023
Description
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services has provided mental health, substance use disorder and suicide prevention services since 1942. Dedicated to serving communities where stigma or poverty limits access, Didi Hirsch provides quality, compassionate care to more than 189,000 annually people across its programs. We work with children and adults from 11 locations and 74 schools throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties each year. Our award-winning whole person mental health care services are fully accredited by a breadth of leading organizations.
Didi Hirsch is home to the nation’s first and largest Suicide Prevention Center, which served and trained more than 175,000 individuals in 2022. Our crisis counselors provide support to over 450 individuals every day through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
More than 1,000 dedicated staff and volunteers make Didi Hirsch’s work possible today. Our cumulative impact in supporting mental health over 80 years is significant. Highlights of our growth include:
- Helping more than 1.8 million individuals in the last 15 years
- Quadrupling the number of children and families served in the last 20 years
- Expanding our direct services for children and families by six-fold over the past 30 years
- Increasing our outpatient substance use treatment services by over six-fold in the last 30 years
- Increasing the number of adults served through our outpatient programs by four-fold in the past 30 years
To meet our Leadership Team, click here.
For more information about Didi Hirsch’s services, please call Centralized Intake at 888-807-7250 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you or someone you know needs help in a crisis, call the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. Counselors who speak English and Spanish are available 24/7.
We envision a future where everyone can thrive with access to high-quality care that treats mental and physical health as inseparable.
Our mission is to save and transform the lives of children, adults and families through world-class, whole-person mental health care and suicide prevention, including where discrimination and injustice limit access.
Accessibility: our services, local or national, are kind, welcoming, culturally sensitive, and responsive to marginalized and vulnerable populations’ needs.
Inclusion: we honor, respect and collaborate with diverse clients, families, staff, professionals, communities, and payers to identify and cultivate resources and ensure impact.
Equity: we pursue justice in health care access, outcomes, financing, recruitment, and staff development and promotion, rooting out systemic discrimination and stigma in health and human services.
Innovation: we use state-of-the-art practices and technologies to improve quality, facilitate growth, embrace change, and develop top-tier, scalable services.
Accountability: we hold ourselves to the highest clinical quality, fiscal, operational, and equity standards, evolve to ensure our long-term value, and lead the change we want to see.
For more information, please visit Didi Hirsch Mental Health Service
