United American Indian Involvement, Inc. — Local services in Los Angeles

I went here for substance abuse services. They have a nice program and community room downstairs but I think as far as helping me, I don't feel very good about the place or some of the particular people I ran into in general. I had this substance abuse counselor, Antonia who insisted I call her Tony? who talked about herself way too much and expected me to identify with her and when I couldn't for obvious reasons, had to make herself feel important by lying to her supervisors about things she wanted to imagine were going on...(I actually think she was trying to bond with her supervisor and get some attention this way) so in the end, everything had to do with her and not me, the client needing help. Such a shame.

I saw a lot of indians from other programs come here and that was probably the nicest thing about being there. Sharon Yazzie was a good counselor and tried very hard but like every other program except one I know of, they stand behind themselves as a group and no one goes out on a limb for the client. I didn't see any real effort put into helping me personally and after the Antonio problem, it was obvious they didn't find me worth helping out. That I think is a darn shame.

I thought the receptionist downstairs (the younger one) was rude at times and I liked seeing Helen much better. I also couldn't figure out who or where to call in the same building for different types of health (mental health, family services help, physical health) and had to wait sometimes weeks to get a referral to someone inside the same building. For example, I inquired about family therapy for my children and what kind of services they could possibly offer, they took about an hour trying to find out who first of all was my overall casemanager? and then when she came downstairs, she couldn't tell me anything about any services that may be for my family situation and treated me like I was meddlesome reporter.

I did complete their parenting class there and can't say enough good stuff about Dr. Cyndi Jong and her program and how they assisted me on that. They went way out there for me on that one. I think they need to stop letting people with certificates diagnose and decide what is going on with clients...

I also did see a psychiatrist there, Dr. Dickerson and he was a nice guy but because of a conflict of interest on many levels, I chose not to see someone that is contracted with the DCFS of la county. This doctor routinely drugs all children in his care and he's a paid shill of DCFS.

Overall, didn't see the place having great "case-management", but a place that had a lot of "program contracts" going on that could change from time to time. I really needed a lot of help and was counting on them helping one of their own and am disappointed. I was promised twice to meet with counselors supervisor to try and discuss things but that never happened. I get the feeling that it is easy to assist the reservation indian with a specific problem who is in town for 3 or 6 months but helping anybody else that is not in that category or that they don't have a contract for or that has more than one or two issues...

My kids participate youth summer camp when they were 5 yrs old ..now they(3) 26..28 and 29..they provide Great Service..like school..which my kids went there to and pple there are Awesome even the Staff..I was 14 when wking from Indian center(youth job)..Im still there..participating and do fundraising for youth camp..i want to give back..i enjoy being there and as client i will continued to...

i was refured here over and over by dcfs and by d edleman courts. i was told they could help me with my court ordered programs. i went down there saw cynthia lopez and it took her 2 weeks+ no lie just so she could tell me they couldnt help me she said to go see her so i went spent my money and they couldnt even give me a bus token to get home this place needs...