The mission of Creative Counseling Network (CCN), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, is to offer young people an alternative approach to standard mental health care, by providing program services that utilize a combination of unique group therapy strategies in conjunction with the arts.

CCN programming (similar to arts therapy) utilizes the arts, through professional and peer-to-peer mentoring, as a way to help young people either rehabilitate or "habilitate" their social and emotional responses to the world. There is an implied assumption that there are deficits in the child’s social/emotional skills or functioning that we can help "recover" through the use of psychosocial and artistic interventions. The title suggests a marriage of the two; traditional mental health therapy combined with the arts as the vehicle for the application of these interventions.

Under the supervision of professional mental health clinicians and artists, program participants are given the opportunity to explore their creative potential in various art forms.

The art disciplines and workshops include:

• Expressive arts (theater and theater
• games, role playing, psychodrama, image
• theater, percussion, and dance therapy)

• Creative arts (music, songwriting,
• storytelling, and creative writing)

• Visual arts (painting, drawing, clay,
• murals, collages)

CCN has a total of 28 groups per month currently in operation, serving the clients of Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center in Downtown Los Angeles, and Penny Lane Centers (PLC) in the City of Commerce, North Hills, and Palmdale.

Groups are scheduled as follows: Monday - Friday from 4pm - 7pm; and Saturdays from 11:30am - 2:30pm & 3pm - 6pm.

CCN IS SPONSORED IN PART BY