Redding, CA
Located in the beautiful, recreation-rich Northern Sacramento Valley, VCSS Redding is a community-based mental health treatment program which contracts its services to northern counties and schools servingchildren and their families with mental health and behavioral needs. VCSS Redding works in partnership with multiple agencies to improve quality of life, build individual and family strengths, and prevent family disruptions and out-of-home placements that could result from untreated mental, emotional and behavioral problems.
VCSS Redding currently provides the following services:
This program provides a continuum of home and office-based services designed to achieve the following goals:
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Mental health assessments of children referred to our services
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Avoidance of psychiatric hospitalization
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Retention of current placement and/or the prevention of a higher level of care
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Transition of children from higher levels of care to lower levels of care, e.g. hospital, group home, foster home, biological or adoptive home
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Treating mental health issues which cause disruption in personal and family life
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Assisting families in developing their strengths, locating and using available resources, and developing constructive patterns of interaction
These goals are achieved through cooperative efforts with our community partners, rapid response, crisis intervention, ongoing counseling, education, and referral.
Clinicians are based in public schools to provide individual, group, and family therapy to children and their families. Other services available through these staff are crisis intervention, case management, teacher education and training, and consultation to other professionals and involved parties in both school and home settings.
Therapeutic Behavioral Services
VCSS Redding staff provides a one-on-one relationship with a child through a state-mandated entitlement program. Within this program providing behavior management, skills training, anger management, parenting skill development and collaboration with other clinical resources facilitates family use of other available services and empowers parents to regain control of the family situation.
The services provided by VCSS Redding are provided by a highly trained group of professional and para-professional staff:
- Executive Director
- Clinical Supervisors (licensed)
- Clinicians (licensed or licensed waivered)
- Family Support Counselors (FSC)
- Office Staff
The program is family driven and youth guided so that youth and families are integral partners and have the primary decision making role in service delivery systems. Services are individualized, flexible and tailored to the needs of each family served. Additionally, caregiver groups are provided as additional support to families as they endeavor to provide parenting and care to children with special needs.
VCSS Redding works in close collaboration with Shasta County's Departments of Mental Health, Child and Family Services, Probation, and School Districts to develop a broad continuum of community treatment services. These services have demonstrated successful outcomes, and have enabled many children to live successfully with their families in the community. As an agency, we are highly committed to work with our community partners in developing services which are needed to enable children and their families to develop the strengths and resources they need to thrive in the communities in which they live.
