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ABOUT MGF

Turning Interest into Action

Mindful Growth Foundation (MGF) founded in 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

Founders Jenero Jefferson and Jasmine Sampson developed MGF.

 


 

 

WHO?

Reunification

Services for Foster Youth &

Their

Families

WHY?

Prevents the Growing Disparity

within the Foster

System

HOW?

MGF provides Residential Care

& Intensive Services

OUR PURPOSE

What We Believe In

The purpose is to promote family resilience and reunification by providing services and tools that children and families can utilize while children are placed in our care and during reunification. MGF pays strong attention to how trauma is manifesting to understand how to treat the child and what evidence-based practice to use.  Youth placed are provided with integrated care that includes repeated exposure to predictable, reliably regulating, and relational experiences that through repetition begin to heal past experiences.

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OUR SUCCESS

The Results of Our Services

Since opening, MGF has been successful in transitioning over 50% of all youth in the program to a lower level of care or back to their families or lower levels of care. As a result, many youths have been successful in completing their educational goals, decrease substance abuse, achieved emotional wellbeing, permanency goals and entered transitional housing programs and are gainfully employed. Mindful Growth Foundation partners with community-based organizations in Los Angeles County to improve youth outcomes and provide support needed to grow and thrive.

Graduation

OUR LEADERSHIP

Founders & Board or Directors

Jenero Jefferson

Jasmine Sampson

Sherlyn Johnson, MSW, ASW
    -Masters in Social Work from University of Southern California with an emphasis on Families and               Children, Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders.
    -Published Article in the Los Angeles Sentinel on Black Girls and Sex Trafficking in Los Angeles

 

Board of Directors

Gregory Jefferson, Chair

Sandra Estrella, Treasury

Nyora Higgs, Secretary

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