Healing To You
OUR STORY
When someone escapes violence, healthcare is rarely their first thought. Safety comes first. Survival comes first. Medical and mental health needs are often postponed until symptoms become urgent or overwhelming.
Healing To You was created for that moment.
We bring trauma-informed medical and mental health care directly into communities across Orange and Los Angeles counties so survivors do not have to navigate complex systems alone. Through mobile clinics and trusted community partnerships, we provide primary care, counseling, advocacy, and safety planning in spaces where survivors already feel protected.
For many of the individuals we serve, this is the first time they are met with care that understands both the physical and emotional impact of abuse. Children exposed to violence receive support early. Parents receive care without fear. Survivors are treated with dignity, compassion, and respect.
We believe healthcare can be a turning point. It can restore stability, strengthen families, and help survivors begin again.
Mission Statement
Healing To You provides trauma-informed, integrated medical and mental health services to the community, with specialized services for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and those impacted by trauma and instability. Our goal is to close gaps in access to care, improve health outcomes, and support healing from the impact of trauma.
Healing To You envisions a future free of violence in the home for children and adults to be able to thrive in life. We hope to interrupt the generational cycle of abuse by providing supportive services early.
Background Statement
Healing To You is a nonprofit community health organization providing trauma-informed medical and mental health services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and families impacted by trauma and instability. The organization was created to address critical gaps in healthcare access for survivors who often face barriers including safety concerns, transportation challenges, financial hardship, and fear of retaliation.
Today, Healing To You operates through two integrated service platforms: the Mobile Healthcare Program and the Wilmington Comprehensive Community Clinic. Through mobile outreach, community partnerships, and clinic-based services, Healing To You provides adult and pediatric primary care, mental health services, advocacy, and specialized survivor support throughout Orange County and surrounding communities. Healing To You is the only known community health center in California with a fully integrated clinical team dual certified in both domestic violence and sexual assault response, ensuring care is clinically skilled, survivor-centered, and designed to reduce retraumatization.
Impact Statement
Healing To You delivers mobile, trauma-informed healthcare directly into communities where survivors and underserved families face the greatest barriers to care. Through partnerships with organizations including Orangewood Foundation, WisePlace, Human Options, Laura’s House, and Radiant Futures, services are integrated into trusted community settings across Orange County.
Between April 2024 and July 2025, the Mobile Healthcare Program provided 1,300 medical services and 1,471 mental health services to 485 patients across Southern California, with 68% of services delivered in Orange County. An additional 285 community members were reached through outreach events and prevention services. 97% of patients reported satisfaction with their care, 91% indicated interest in returning, and 26% shared they would not have accessed healthcare without Healing To You. This year, Healing To You is expanding services through a Mobile Sexual Assault Response Team (mSART) Pilot designed to increase access to community-based forensic and trauma-informed care for survivors.
Needs Statement
Survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Orange County often delay or avoid medical and mental health care due to safety concerns, housing instability, transportation barriers, financial hardship, and fear of encountering their abuser. Many survivors never access traditional systems at all. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, only 13% of rape and sexual assault victimizations in urban areas were reported to police between 2020 and 2023, leaving many survivors without safe pathways to care.
Strangulation is alarmingly common in both domestic violence and sexual assault cases and is one of the strongest indicators of future homicide risk. Survivors may appear physically unharmed while suffering life threatening internal injuries, brain injury, breathing complications, or neurological damage. Without timely medical care, the consequences can be fatal, sometimes days or even weeks after the assault.
While Orange County has strong victim service and housing programs, healthcare access remains a critical unmet need. Mobile, community-based healthcare services help close this gap by bringing compassionate, trauma-informed care directly to survivors where they feel safest and most supported.
Geographic Areas Served
Our mobile clinics serve Orange and Los Angeles counties. Our Wilmington Comprehensive Community Clinic serves the South Bay Los Angeles area, also known as Los Angeles County Service Planning Area (SPA) 8.
Top Three Populations Served
- Homeless Individuals
- Latinos
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)
Statement from the CEO/Executive Director
Healing To You is the only known service provider of its kind in California, combining comprehensive trauma-informed medical and mental health care specifically tailored to survivors of abuse and assault. Every member of our team is dual certified in domestic violence and sexual assault response, ensuring that survivors receive care that is clinically skilled, safety-centered, and deeply informed by the realities of violence.
Children are often described as “too young to understand or remember” the trauma they experience. Neuroscience tells us otherwise. Exposure to violence alters brain development, shapes attachment patterns, and influences long-term physical and emotional health. Without intervention, children who witness abuse are at higher risk of entering abusive relationships later in life, developing maladaptive coping strategies, and experiencing chronic health challenges.
Our work is rooted in interrupting that trajectory. Healing to You exists to break cycles of violence by providing early, integrated care that addresses both physical and emotional trauma. We support children and adults in reclaiming safety, strengthening resilience, and building healthier futures.
Cari Teran, LMFT
Founding Director and CEO
Healing To You
Statement from the Board Chair/President
On behalf of the board of directors of Healing To You, I am honored to share our commitment to improving the lives of survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse in Southern California. Healing to You has been a beacon of hope for those who have faced unimaginable trauma, providing essential medical, mental health, and advocacy services to those who need it most.
As we look back on the incredible impact HTY has made through its mobile healthcare program and our expansion with the Wilmington Comprehensive Community Clinic (WCCC), we are reminded of the profound difference our work has on the lives of survivors. Yet, the need for services continues to grow. More and more survivors find themselves in crisis, isolated and unable to access the care they deserve.
Our mission to provide trauma-informed, accessible, and comprehensive care remains unwavering. But to meet the increasing demand, we must rely on the generosity of donors, partners, and supporters who believe in our work and understand the urgent need to invest in the healing of survivors. With your support, we will continue to expand our reach, enhance our programs, and ensure that every survivor has the resources they need to rebuild their life.
We are proud of the work we have done, but we know that there is so much more to be done. Healing To You’s success depends on people like you—individuals and organizations who are willing to stand with survivors and help make our vision of a healthier, more compassionate future a reality.
On behalf of the board, thank you for your continued support and for believing in the power of healing and transformation.
Maija Merchant
Board Chair
Healing To You
CONTACT
Healing To You
PO Box 1506
Placentia, California 92871
Cari Teran
Phone: 8182752227