Community Support, Residential and Non-Public School Programs
Community Support Services & Programs
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Wraparound
Family
Vision is part of the SB 163 program Victor Community Support Services (VCSS)
is operating
as the lead agency for this highly intensive, social services wraparound
program.
Crisis Services
Crisis
Services are designed to prevent the psychiatric hospitalization,
incarceration, and residential
placements of youth. Services include rapid response, assessment of
dangerousness, and
on-going community-based crisis services as needed.
Home-Based Mental Health and Case Management Services
VCSS
specializes in providing family-based mental health treatment and case
management services
for a broad array of target populations. This service focuses on children and
youth who are at
risk of out-of-home placement, in foster care, involved with the Juvenile
Justice system, and with
more serious emotional disorders for which traditional services are
insufficient.
Therapeutic Behavior Services (TBS)
TBS is
provided as a supplemental mental health service to children and youth who are
at risk or
out-of-home placement.
School-Based Mental Health and Case Management
School-Based
Mental Health and Case Management services may include individual, family, and group
therapy as well as day treatment services. VCSS partners with school districts and mental
health departments to provide mental health/case management services in school
environments. Home-based services are also generally provided to ensure a
strong
linkage
with families and family involvement in the treatment.
Outpatient Services
Outpatient
Services are brief, goal-oriented case management and psychotherapy treatment services
targeted to specific populations with partnerships with Social Services, Probation,
and Mental Health Departments to provide time-limited office-based therapy and case
management services.
Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Services
Coordinated
and comprehensive array of services for TAY clients who meet the focal
population criteria
and allow clients to selectively utilize services needed to maximize their
individual potentials (Resiliency/Recovery
Model) and successfully transition into adulthood; services address all
identified transition needs in the domains of employment, educational
opportunities, living situations,
community life, medication, mental health, physical well being, drug and
alcohol use, trauma,
domestic violence, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
SART
Screening,
Assessment, Referral and Treatment Services for 0-5 years. Interventions designed
to provide the maximum reduction of mental disability and restoration or
maintenance of
functioning consistent with the requirements for learning, development, and enhanced
self sufficiency.
Military Services and Family Support Project
This
project is a Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) program for military
families. Services
consist of two components: 1) In-home screening and assessment for active and recently
retired military families; and 2) Case management and referrals for those
identified as needing
mental health services.
Student Assistance Program (SAP)
SAP is a
Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) program designed to enhance the well being of
students and their families by identifying and reducing stressors or risk
factors related to
substance abuse, mental health as well as other identified barriers to the
student's academic
and personal success.
Crossroads (NCTI)
Establishes
Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) services in the community designed to address
the needs of transitional age youth and their families. Services include
increasing the knowledge
of social-emotional-behavioral issues and to remove barriers to accessing care.
Community Wholeness and Enrichment (CWE)
Involves
short-term therapy sessions (up to one year) for the Prevention and Early
Intervention (PEI) of
youth (16 to 25) and adults (26 to 59) who experience early onset of mild, moderate
to serious mental health issues.
Nurturing Parents
Parents
and children attend separate groups that meet concurrently designed to build
self awareness, positive
concept/self-esteem and build levels of empathy; teach alternatives to hitting
and yelling; enhance family communication and awareness of needs; replace
abusive behaviors
with nurturing behaviors; promote healthy physical and emotional development; and teach
appropriate role and developmental expectations.
Common Sense Parenting
Parents
learn, practice, and demonstrate new parenting skills that will enable them to
learn to nurture
their children's development and combine affection and discipline to decrease their
children's negative behaviors and increase their positive behaviors.
SUCCESS 1st
This is an
"early wraparound” program whose mission is to provide family-centered,
strengths based, needs-driven
services to maintain at-risk children between the ages of 0 to 15 years old in family
settings, in schools, and in their communities. Services target children and
youth identified as
underserved or who have experienced inappropriate service delivery.
Family Resource Center
The focus
of the Family Resource Center is the family unit. We offer Nurturing Parents
and Nurturing
Fathers Parenting groups, a Women's Support Group, Children's Enrichment
programs, a
Grandparents Support Group (for those raising grandchildren), computer classes in
Spanish, English as a second language as well as individual case management and
individual
and/or family counseling.
Children's Intensive Services
Children's
Intensive Services are directed at supporting the family unit by dealing with problems of
emotionally disturbed youth at the earliest possible moment in the natural
settings of the
child and parents. The goal of early intervention provided in the natural
setting is to effectively
resolve problems at the earliest stage by reducing the risk of out-of-home
placement, significant
school problems or involvement with the Child Welfare/Justice Systems.
FAST
The Family
Assessment and Support Team offers intensive short-term services for
stabilization to
children and families who are at risk due to recent hospitalization, detention,
or have
issues of placement stability. Mental health services include family therapy;
individual and
collateral services; rehabilitation and activities of daily living; and
medication support services.
Intensive case management may include collaboration with educational settings and
adjunctive services such as TBS and PCIT; referral and linkage in home
communities to longer
term services and supports.
Co-Occurring Treatment Program and Facility
This
program is for juvenile justice involved adolescents ages 12-18 suffering from
co-occurring disorders
(substance abuse and mental health disorders) that can best be served by the
provision of highly
individualized, comprehensive, compassionate program that is based upon a
treatment collaborative,
following a harm reduction model, and with all stakeholders involved in the process.
Through this process the needs of these adolescents can be met and teens can be empowered,
families restored, and lifelong recoveries initiated and sustained.
The Stage Project
The Stage Project is an MHSA funded Innovative Mentoring Program in Yolo County. The program matches the creative arts interests of qualified and screened volunteers with youth who are interested in building their own skills in the performance arts. The mentoring takes place as volunteers prepare mentees to perform in Stage Project sponsored events. Through collaboration between partners, the Stage Project brings positive attention to youth under the umbrella of Prevention and Early Intervention services to underserved youth.
Holistic Campus
At the Holistic Campus we want to avoid the stigma that is associated with counseling services. The Holistic Campus will provide the most appropriate integrated services that are needed, desired, and found to be most effective in the community. Based on the community, we have targeted Latino, military veterans, LGBTQ, Native American, Asian American and African American, as those most in need of these services. The Holistic Campus will be a facility that offers professional alternative therapies. The Holistic Campus wants to be a center for local and community based providers and resources in a non-behavioral setting. The campus is expected to be much more accessible, culturally and linguistically competent, and community friendly.
Current Residential Treatment Programs & Services
Residential Treatment
Victor Treatment Centers (VTC) exists to provide a healthy, healing alternative strength-based services oriented living environment for severely emotionally disturbed children and young adults. As a result of a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders these youth exhibit emotional, cognitive, and/or behavioral functioning which is so impaired as to interfere substantially with their role or functioning in their family, school, or community activities.
Residential Treatment for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program – this program is specifically designed to treat children who are both deaf and emotionally disturbed or mentally ill. This program provides a full signing environment with deaf staff and ongrounds interpreters. The residential homes are equipped with TTY decoders, safety-signaling devices such as blinking light alarms, etc. Our Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program has been awarded the Certificate of Recognition by the California State Senate.
Day Treatment
Full Day Intensive Day Treatment (5 days/week following the school calendar), Medication Support Services, a full range of Specialty Mental Health Services, Case Management and Crisis Intervention are offered and assessed as needed and authorized by the placing County. Day Intensive Services – The Day Intensive Program integrates a comprehensive special education program with an intensive mental health treatment component within the setting of our state certified non-public school. The Day Treatment team consists of a licensed psychiatrist, mental health clinicians and day treatment counselors working as a team with special education credentialed teachers and instructional aides. The team provides a positive school experience and comprehensive mental health and psycho educational curriculum.
Residential Based Services
The Victor Residential Based Services (RBS) Program is designed to create a community/family reconnection engine for highly disconnected foster youth with significant mental health challenges. RBS resource will have two objectives: 1) to help youth permanently re-establish safe and nurturing family, educational, and community connections; and 2) to assist in establishing a new system of care that will prevent any more youth from reaching this point of disconnection. The 12 RBS Transition Home beds Victor provides is a part of a comprehensive system of care with San Bernardino County. The two Transition Homes each with six clients are intended to be short-term residential placements averaging 6 - 12 months in residence. The program is designed for youth and their families to remain connected after the client transitions from residential care using planned respite as needed while they are in their family-setting placements. Average enrollment in the RBS system of care, which includes time spent in residential placement, will be for 18 to 24 months.
Non-Public School
North Valley School (NVS) is WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) accredited and certified by the State of California Department of Education. North Valley School's mission is to provide a successful, comprehensive, and therapeutic educational program. It is designed to educate special education students whom have been unsuccessful in the regular education environment utilizing state standards based driven curriculum. It provides educationally based behavior intervention case management, positive behavior interventions and supports for its students. NVS provides a high staff to student ratio with one to one staff capability. The school environment is enhanced by a certified Day Treatment Program that is integrated into and beyond the school day.
Non-Public School
Autistic / Developmentally Delayed Student Program
ECHO is a community based educational program for students with Autism, Downs Syndrome and/or other developmental delays. Being a community based program, ECHO can provide opportunities for students to participate in experiential learning while being assisted by trained educators. Through educational experiences such as outdoor education, community exploration, vocational training, and life skills; students are taught to reach their highest level of independence.
Academic instruction at ECHO is individualized. Each child's needs are addressed daily behaviorally, academically, and socially. With a high staff to student ratio, your child has access to a number of highly trained professionals. Students are provided specialized instruction based on academic test scores as well as functional skills assessments. ECHO believes every child has opportunities for success! Using a data driven decision making process, our team helps to identify best practices for your child to meet their personal and academic goals.
The ECHO program has provided parents, care providers, and districts with academic solutions for over 18 years. Through consistent implementation of data driven strategies and consultation with professionals involved in your child's life, we can provide a stable academic atmosphere for your child's growth.
