About Us
How We're Helping
We are a community-based organization focused on helping make the world around us a better, happier place. With the help of our tireless staff, we organize fundraisers, exciting community-building events, and in-depth training sessions for our volunteers.
Get Involved
Are you passionate about what we're doing? Let us know! We are always looking for volunteers to help us make our vision a reality. We'll help you find a way to volunteer that best suits you. We're excited to have you join the team!
Thank You
Whether you help through monetary donations, volunteering your time, or spreading our mission through word-of-mouth, thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you.
Who We Are
Our Services
At Unicorn Garden!, we offer a range of services to support children in care, including placement, case management, therapeutic services, and support for foster families. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive continuum of care that meets the needs of each child and family we serve.
Serving Kern County Youth for 33 years
Unicorn Garden, Inc. is a California Not-for-Profit Company founded in 1991. Unicorn Garden was created to assist foster youth to mature into competent self-sufficient and productive adults. In order to reach this goal, the youth are provided with a stable, structured, and supportive environment that emphasizes learning basic living skills, implementing positive reinforcements, and intensive in house mental health services from Licensed Practitioners of the Healing Arts and rehabilitation specialists all within the confines of a Short Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP) licensed by California’s Department of Social Services and Department of Health Care Services.
What We Do
Unicorn Garden, Inc. serves the needs of youth who may need parenting as much as peer group interaction and support from healthy mature adults. Unicorn Garden provides multiple opportunities for the youth under our care to mature, grow and expand their overall knowledge and experiences. We utilize an Independent Living Skills Program teaching our youth vital real-world skills such as: job searching, resume building, interviewing, budgeting, banking, transportation options (California Driver’s License and Golden Empire Transit bus transportation), cooking, housing searching and acquisition.
Our Services
The overall focus of our program is behavior modification—increasing positive behaviors and extinguishing undesired behaviors. Unicorn utilizes strength-based methods, Trauma Informed Care, and intensive mental health services (Psychological evaluations and testing, individual therapy, group therapy, crisis intervention, and psychotropic medication management). Our staff is trained to use de-escalation methods and techniques in problem solving. Therapy group is mainly cognitive-behavioral approach, where emphasis is placed upon focusing on unresolved conflicts with self and others, renewing thought processes, development of verbal and nonverbal skills, and specific behaviors and their effect on others. Also, more specific emphasis is placed on examining a resident’s own core family and what inside and outside resources are available to the resident in order to function more effectively and to develop a sense of identity and belonging to a family and the community. Unicorn Garden maintains several bi-lingual staff to facilitate communication with our resident’s families and potential Resource Families.
Our Story
Founded in 1991, Unicorn Garden has been dedicated to providing compassionate care for children in the foster care system. Our team of experienced professionals understand the unique needs of children in care and work tirelessly to ensure that each child receives the support and resources they need to thrive.
Our Impact
Over the past decade, Unicorn Garden has helped hundreds of children find stable, loving homes. Our commitment to excellence and dedication to providing high-quality services has made a difference in the lives of countless children and families in our community.