Our Third Place, a youth drop-in center, offers social services in Glendale
Youth advocates and service providers on Friday, March 22, celebrated the opening of the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services youth drop-in center in Glendale.
Called “Our Third Place,” the space at 1540 E. Colorado St. is Glendale’s first drop-in center for young people ages 15 to 25 to get a host of services from mental health therapy and substance use counseling to help with finding housing and job applications.
People tour Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services’ youth drop-in center, Our Third Place, in Glendale during their opening on Friday, March 22, 2024. The transitional youth center for those ages 15-25 will offer mental health and social services along with cooking and art classes. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services’ therapist Eileen Ordoukhanian hangs handmade angel wings, made at a teen summit, at a photo wall during the opening of their youth drop-in center, Our Third Place, in Glendale on Friday, March 22, 2024. The transitional youth center for those ages 15-25 will offer mental health and social services along with cooking and art classes. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Rachel Gloer, vice president of whole person care at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, shows the beauty area of their new youth drop-in center, Our Third Place, in Glendale during the opening on Friday, March 22, 2024. The transitional youth center for those ages 15-25 will offer mental health and social services along with cooking and art classes. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
People pass a kitchen as they tour Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services’ youth drop-in center, Our Third Place, in Glendale during their opening on Friday, March 22, 2024. The transitional youth center for those ages 15-25 will offer mental health and social services along with cooking and art classes. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services’ CEO Lyn Morris hugs Avery Ceron, 19, after she and Axel Osnaya, 20, spoke about how they were helped by the organization during the opening of Didi Hirsch’s youth drop-in center, Our Third Place, in Glendale on Friday, March 22, 2024. The transitional youth center for those ages 15-25 will offer mental health and social services along with cooking and art classes. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The center provides access to showers, food and laundry facilities, as well as a recording studio and art studio. Cooking and art classes are offered onsite.
The organization works with children and adults from 10 locations and 74 schools throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties and provides services to more than 189,000 people annually through its programs. It has helped over 1.8 million people in the past 15 years and quadrupled the number of children and families it served in the past two decades.