Transforming California’s System of Care for 150 Years
Uplift Family Services has evolved over 150 years to deliver the most visionary behavioral health services to California’s children and their families. We began in 1867 as Eastfield Home of Benevolence, a San Jose orphanage, and Ming Quong Home, an orphanage for neglected and abandoned Chinese girls. In 1880, Hollygrove was founded in downtown Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Orphans Home Society.
Today, we are one of the most comprehensive, innovative, family-centered treatment programs providing services to over 30,000 children and their families annually throughout 30 counties in California.
Milestones
| 1867 | Eastfield Home of Benevolence founded in San Jose. |
| 1874 | Presbyterian Mission Home founded in San Francisco. |
| 1880 | Hollygrove founded in downtown Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Orphans Home Society. |
| 1910 | Hollygrove moves to its current location in Hollywood. |
| 1935 | Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) comes to live at Hollygrove. Ming Quong opens another orphanage for younger girls in the hills of Los Gatos. |
| 1950s | Hollygrove provides residential services for abused and neglected children removed from their families by court order. |
| 1953 | Ming Quong enrolls boys and needy children of all races and becomes independent of the Presbyterian Church. |
| 1987 | Eastfield & Ming Quong merge (Eastfield Ming Quong), later to be called EMQ Children & Family Services. |
| 1994 | EMQ launches California’s first Wraparound program (in partnership with the county departments of Social Services, Juvenile Probation and Mental Health). |
| 1999 | EMQ acquires San Jose-based child sexual abuse treatment pioneer Giarretto Institute and begins providing Wraparound services in the Sacramento area. |
| 2002 | EMQ expands into Southern California, opening a Wraparound program in San Bernardino County. |
| 2004 | Mental Health Services Act (Prop 63) passes in California making Wraparound available to children. |
| 2005 | Hollygrove closes its residential program to concentrate on community-based mental health services. |
| 2006 | Hollygrove and EMQ merge. |
| 2009 | EMQ and FamiliesFirst merge to create EMQ FamiliesFirst. CEO Jerry Doyle retires after 39 years and Darrell Evora is named President/CEO. |
| 2016 | EMQ FamiliesFirst becomes Uplift Family Services. |
| 2017 | We celebrate our 150th anniversary. |
