Taking the brave first step toward mental health care is a life-changing decision. At First Light Recovery, we honor your courage by providing professional, compassionate support for residents of La Palma, CA, around the clock. Our residential mental health program offers a secure and welcoming environment where healing and personal growth are prioritized. By addressing the root causes of mental health challenges, we empower individuals to achieve lasting progress through evidence-based therapies.
Every year, countless people confront mental health struggles, highlighting the importance of access to dedicated care. At First Light Recovery, we are committed to fostering transformation, recovery, and sustained wellness.
Severe mental health challenges can disrupt every aspect of life, from relationships to daily routines. First Light Recovery offers expert care in a structured environment designed to help individuals regain stability and confidence.
During Your Stay, You Will:
Recovery starts with understanding and addressing the core challenges. Don’t navigate this journey alone—help is just a call away.
Comprehensive mental health care services
Partnerships with major insurance providers
Expert and licensed professionals
Customized treatment plans tailored to individual needs
Confidentiality to protect your journey
Residential treatment at First Light Recovery provides a dedicated space for focusing on your healing journey. With 24/7 support from licensed professionals, our serene setting near La Palma, CA, encourages recovery and connection.
Therapies like CBT, DBT, and group counseling are integrated into our program, fostering a nurturing community dedicated to your well-being. Everyone deserves the opportunity to overcome mental health challenges, and we are here to guide you.
Our inpatient program is designed to meet the unique needs of each individual.
We Treat Complex Mental Health Conditions, Including:
Our dedicated team supports you through every step of your recovery journey.
Our inpatient mental health program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), highlighting our commitment to improving the quality of care and services offered to our residents. This accreditation reflects our dedication to ongoing enhancement and our focus on the satisfaction and well-being of those we serve in a residential environment.
Our inpatient program offers comprehensive care for individuals dealing with severe mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, thought disorders, and more. Using proven therapies like CBT and DBT, we create individualized treatment plans that stabilize symptoms and foster long-term recovery.
With one-on-one counseling, group therapy, and mindfulness practices, our program provides continuous care from experienced professionals. Conveniently located near La Palma, CA, our tranquil facility offers a peaceful space for healing and renewal. Contact us today to begin your journey to recovery.
Our program’s length can vary depending on the individual’s needs. We typically recommend a stay of a few weeks to a few months, but we’re flexible and will adjust this based on your progress and treatment goals.
Yes, we do. We accept most insurance providers for our Inpatient Mental Health Program. We’d recommend getting in touch with us so we can help you understand your coverage and any potential out-of-pocket costs.
We’re equipped to treat a wide range of mental health conditions in our Inpatient Program. This includes depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and more. Our team of experts will work closely with you to develop a personalized treatment plan.
It’s simple. You can give us a call anytime, as we’re available 24/7. We’ll guide you through the process, answer any questions you might have, and ensure your loved one gets the compassionate care they need.
In our program, we provide comprehensive mental health services that include individual counseling, group therapies, medication management, and other supportive services designed to treat a variety of mental health disorders.
Nestled in a welcoming community that mirrors La Palma’s emphasis on wellness and outdoor enjoyment, the city provides an ideal backdrop for mental health care.
One of La Palma’s most cherished traditions is the annual La Palma Days Parade and Band Review, a vibrant celebration that brings the community together with live music, food, and cultural activities. Events like this reflect the city’s strong values of connection, unity, and support, aligning perfectly with First Light Recovery’s commitment to fostering a nurturing environment for mental health recovery.
La Palma features several parks and green spaces that provide excellent opportunities for relaxation and reflection. Central Park and Denni Street Park are popular spots where residents can enjoy peaceful outdoor activities that promote mental wellness. These tranquil settings support mindfulness, calm, and personal growth.
The city is home to excellent schools and is located near institutions like Cypress College and California State University, Long Beach, underscoring the area’s dedication to education and personal development. This focus on growth complements First Light Recovery’s mission to empower individuals on their journey to mental wellness.
Residential neighborhoods in La Palma offer a mix of comfortable housing options, from charming family homes to modern developments. This sense of safety and community provides essential support for those in recovery.
Nearby cities such as Cerritos, Buena Park, and Cypress add to the area’s vibrant cultural and recreational offerings. Highlights include Cerritos’s Performing Arts Center, Buena Park’s attractions like Knott’s Berry Farm, and Cypress’s peaceful community parks. Together, these neighboring areas contribute to a rich and supportive environment where healing and growth can thrive.
Start on CA-91 East:
Head east on CA-91 toward Anaheim.
Take I-5 South:
Take Exit 81 for Camino Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano:
Turn right onto Camino Capistrano:
This drive typically takes about 40-50 minutes, depending on traffic conditions. Checking real-time traffic updates is recommended to ensure the smoothest route.
If you’re struggling with your mental health, you don’t have to face it alone. First Light Recovery offers compassionate care, expert treatment, and a real-world approach to empower you.
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to