The Village Family Services
Maria Cortez is an experienced social worker with a robust background in foster care and service coordination. Since October 2005, Maria has been a Foster Care Social Worker at The Village Family Services, following a role as a Service Coordinator at Eastern Regional Center from April 2003 to September 2005. Prior to that, Maria worked as a Case Manager at People Who Care from January 2001 to June 2003. Maria holds a Master of Science degree in Counseling from California State University, Los Angeles, completed in 2005.
The Village Family Services
The Village Family Services is one of Southern California’s leading bilingual community-based organizations providing a comprehensive range of services to achieve permanency and safety for neglected and abused children and youth. Our approach focuses on client-centered, strengths-focused, trauma-informed, evidence-based and culturally competent care delivered by a compassionate, bilingual staff. The Village Family Services envisions a day where all children and youth are free of social, emotional, verbal and physical harm.