Welcome to Family Service Agency

For people struggling to face life’s challenges, a helping hand and some practical encouragement can make the difference between failure and success. Facing these challenges and crises can help us recognize our inner strengths.

Family Service Agency of the Central Coast is a 501c(3) nonprofit containing a family of programs that aim to address and improve mental health and wellness for people of all backgrounds and identities. Our services range from counseling to suicide and crisis prevention, women’s cancer support, senior counseling and support, continuing education, and more. We believe in the power and potential of all people to discover their own creative solutions. Our professional staff and volunteers provide mental health services, support, and resources essential to healthy families and communities. Since 1957 we have been providing these essential services to those in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito Counties. We welcome people of diverse cultures, genders, sexual orientations, ages, faiths, socio-economic backgrounds, and abilities as clients, volunteers, and staff members.

Our financial support comes from client fees, public contracts, and donations through our Friends, the United Way, foundations, and our Daisy Auxiliary.

We hope these pages will help you learn more about our programs and we invite you to take advantage of our services as a client or to get involved as a volunteer.