Agency Programs

Programs by Location

San Bernardino County

Wraparound

Wraparound is a strengths-based planning process that occurs in a team setting to engage with children, youth, and their families. Wraparound shifts focus away from a traditional service-driven, problem-based approach to care and instead follows a strengths-based, needs-driven approach. The intent is to build on individual and family strengths to help families achieve positive goals and improve well-being. Wraparound is also a team-driven process. From the start, a child and family team is formed and works directly with the family as they identify their own needs and strengths. The team develops a service plan that describes specific strategies for meeting the needs identified by the family. The service plan is individualized, with strategies that reflect the child and family’s culture and preferences. California Wraparound is intended to allow children to live and grow up in a safe, stable, permanent family environment.

Success First

Success First 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 21 years old, in family settings, schools and in their communities. Services target children and youth identified as unserved, underserved, or those who have experienced gaps in service delivery. The program is short-term (usually 120 days) and is focused on achieving the stabilization of children, youth and their families, and the successful transition to longer term community resources and/or other VCSS mental health programs for ongoing progress and support.

One Stop TAY (Transitional Age Youth) Center

Provides integrated services with an emphasis on a menu of available resiliency/recovery services that assist TAY in reaching their goals of wellness and independence. Services address the transitional domains of employment, educational opportunities, housing, and community life necessary for wellness, recovery, and resilience. Examples include access to all needed services, including 24/7 support from an inter-disciplinary team consisting of trained behavioral health staff and peer advocates, community partner agencies, peer advocacy and mentoring, vocational training, case management and linkage services, medication management, medical screening, transportation assistance, and housing support. The One Stop TAY Centers offer onsite access to showers and laundry facilities, internet access, and linkage to childcare for TAY with infants and toddlers.

Family Resource Center

The Family Resource Center (FRC) develops community networks that link people, resources, and information. Services include community counseling, case management, early intervention services, mental health workshops, relapse prevention, afterschool youth activities, linkage, and referral. The FRC is set up to be a one-stop shop for people of all ages to seek an array of support and services.

Promotores de Salud/Community Health Worker

Prevention and Early Intervention services for Latino/LatinX community and LGBTQ+ community. Services include crisis intervention, outreach, case management, linkage and referral services, education and resources, suicide prevention, and promotion of wellness and self-care.

Military Families

Prevention and Early Intervention services for Military personnel and their families. Prevention activities include screening and assessment, linkage and case management, psychoeducation, support groups, and peer mentoring. Intervention activities include clinical assessments and outpatient behavioral health treatment for individuals, couples, and families. Additional support is provided for the family of deployed military personnel.

Child and Family Teams (CFTs)

CFTs are widely recognized as an effective tool for services to children and families. CFTs ensure services are delivered in the context of a single, integrated team that includes the child or youth, his or her family, natural and community supports, and professionals. CFT facilitation include family finding, connection mapping, needs assessment, development of an individualized service plan, and close care coordination with mental health providers, extended family, schools, and the county departments involved with the family.

Resource Family Approval

Recruit, train, and support Resource Families (Foster Families) to provide foster care for families working toward reunification or to prepare for their own adoption of a child in need of a permanent home.

Community Wholeness and Enrichment (CWE)

An innovative community-based treatment model designed to assist TAY, adults, and their families to achieve the highest levels of health and well-being in the face of changing and/or challenging circumstances. CWE provides flexible, interagency care coordination services from a strength-based, client-centered, family-focused philosophy, integrating mental health and substance abuse services that are responsive to the needs of persons with co-occurring disorders.

Therapeutic Behavior Services (TBS)

TBS is designed to provide additional services to children and youth with serious emotional challenges. TBS helps children/youth as well as their parents/caregivers, foster parents, group home staff and school staff learn new ways of reducing and managing challenging/problematic behaviors (i.e., target behaviors) and increase positive behavior that will allow children/youth to be successful in their current environment and reduce and/or eliminate the need for placement into high levels of out-of-home care or psychiatric hospitalization.

Screening, Assessment, Referral, and Treatment (SART)

Early Childhood SART (Screening, Assessment, Referral, and Treatment) is a community based, family-focused program designed to improve the developmental, social, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning of at-risk children from birth through age five. The SART program uses a transdisciplinary team of professionals that includes Mental Health Clinicians, Registered Nurses, Pediatric Psychologist, Rehab Specialists, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Pathologist, and a Pediatrician.

Early Identification and Intervention Services (EIIS)

Early Identification and Intervention Services (EIIS) is a community based, family-focused program designed to improve the developmental, social, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning of at-risk children from birth through age 8. The EIIS program uses an interdisciplinary team of professionals that includes Mental Health Clinicians, Registered Nurses, Rehab Specialists, and Occupational Therapists.

Student Assistance Programs (SAP), School-Aged Treatment Services (SATS), and Children’s Intensive Services (CIS)

Provides a continuum of intervention services for children and youth in San Bernardino County schools ranging from resources and support through intensive mental health services for children.

Riverside

Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Resiliency

A coordinated and comprehensive array of services for TAY clients and allow them to selectively utilize services needed to maximize their individual potential (Resiliency/Recovery Model) and successfully transition into adulthood. Services address needs in the areas 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.

Foster Family and Adoption Services

Child and Family Teaming

Provide Child and Family Team (CFT) facilitation for Child Welfare involved youth and families. CFT facilitation include family finding, connection mapping, needs assessment, development of an individualized service plan, and close care coordination with mental health providers, extended family, schools, and the county departments involved with the family.

Mental Health Services

Clinical therapy services for children and youth in the homes, schools, and other community settings. Clinicians are trained in an array of evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of mental health issues including but not limited to eating disorders, substance use/abuse, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Services include assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, group therapy, and care coordination when needed for linkage to additional services.

School-Based Services

Services for children and youth to address emotional and behavioral problems that are interfering with their learning. Services include individual, group, and family counseling, and behavior management consultations.

0-5 Services

Early Identification Intervention Services and screening programs for infants and toddlers for assessment and mental health services. The goal is to minimize the potential for developmental delays and increase the potential for success in school and life.

Los Angeles

Wraparound

EPSDT Mental Health Services

Clinical therapy services for children and youth in the homes, schools, and other community settings. Clinicians are trained in an array of evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of mental health issues including but not limited to substance use/abuse, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Services include assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, group therapy, and care coordination when needed for linkage to additional services.

Relative Home Assessment Services

When children are removed from parental custody, the RHAS program supports relatives and non-related extended family to become quickly and efficiently Resource Family Approved so the children may move to a familiar situation, safely, despite the disruption in their lives. Services include Resource Family Pre- and Post- Approval Training, Home Environment Assessment, and RFA Home Environment Corrective Action Plan.

Foster Family and Adoption Services

Recruit, train, and support Resource Families (Foster Families) to provide foster care for families working
toward reunification or to prepare for their own adoption of a child in need of a permanent home.

San Joaquin County

Outpatient Mental Health Services

Specialty mental health assessment and treatment program that serves children and youth up to age eighteen. Counseling and rehabilitation services are the focus of this program in efforts to stabilize behaviors, functioning, and placement of youth served.

Pathways for Well-being

Pathways is a specialty mental health assessment and treatment program that serves foster children and youth up to age twenty-one. A team based “wrap-informed” approach is utilized to support children and families in stabilization of behaviors, functional improvement, and placement. Children and Family Team Meetings are facilitated to connect youth’s supports to a common goal for youth’s success.

Katie A Services

Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) and Intensive Home-based Services (IHBS) are provided for foster youth. ICC coordinates the child/youth, family, child welfare social worker, probation officer, mental health worker and other supports using a Child and Family Teams (CFT). Specialty mental health services are also provided, including but not limited to the implementation of a positive behavioral plan and/or modeling interventions, skill-based interventions to develop functional skills to improve self-care, self-regulation, or other functional impairments by intervening to decrease or replace non-functional behavior that interferes with daily living tasks or the avoidance of exploitation by others.

School-based Interventions

VCSS provides mental health services in schools to assist children and youths addressing emotional and behavioral problems, which interfere with learning. Services include individual, group, and family therapy, and behavior management consultation.

Intensive Family Services

A prevention program focused on keeping children from being placed out-of-home and/or to remain safely in their current placement.

Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS)

TBS is an intensive short-term, one-on-one behavioral mental health service available to Alameda’s foster care children and youth that are placed within 50 miles from our Manteca office. TBS is a therapeutic intervention used in addition to primary specialty mental health services.

Wraparound

Juvenile Justice Program

Provides mental health assessment, counseling, and other support services to children and their families who are involved in the Juvenile Justice system. This team works diligently to help youth remain safely in their homes and the community.

Foster Care Assessment and Treatment (FCAT)

Provides mental health assessment and therapy for children who live with their families, relatives, or in foster homes enabling children and families to live with continuity and minimal change in residential placement.

Group Services

VCSS provides a variety of evidenced based and or educational groups for youth targeting specific challenges or barriers

Aggression, Trauma, Co-occurring Disorders, Teenage Development, Teen Parenting, Social Skill-Building, Independent Living Skills, Problem Solving and more. Other Groups are developed dependent on referral needs.

Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Services

School-based outreach, prevention, and treatment services for students. Treatments include groups, one-on-one therapy, care coordination and linkage to long term support, school-wide psychoeducation, suicide prevention, and training for school and district staff.

Solano County

Family Finding

Family search and engagement services for Child Welfare involved children and families. Family Finders work with the child/youth and family and the county Social Worker, to identify and engaged individuals (family, friends, teachers, clergy, etc.) who can support them throughout in a variety of ways throughout their Child Welfare experience and beyond. The individuals identified are engaged to participate in the county led Child and Family Team meetings.

Care Clinic-Intensive Treatment Preschool

VCSS Fairfield is excited to offer our Comprehensive Assessment Research and Evaluation (CARE) Clinic. The CARE Clinic is a FREE intensive, early assessment and intervention program for children, age three to five years (and their care-givers) who are likely to have ongoing developmental, social, emotional, behavioral, and communicative challenges. Such children typically require significant support from healthcare, social services, and schools as they mature. The intensive nature of the CARE model has shown great promise in improving outcomes for these children. By reaching children early, when the first signs of difficulty are showing this program has shown that many of these services are eventually unnecessary.

The CARE Clinic is not an educational placement; it is a voluntary intensive assessment period. Our team consists of people with multiple specialties who work together to assess and offer recommendations for effective interventions to use with children at home, community, and in a future public school setting. Our CARE Clinic runs 4x a year (January, April, July, and October) and is designed to run 4 hours a day, 5 days a week for 10 weeks.

Specialty Mental Health Services

VCSS Fairfield provides a continuum of mental health services for infants, adolescents, teens and families using research and evidence based therapeutic modalities. Services are developed and implemented with the participation of the youth and caregivers, collaboration with medical professionals, caseworkers, school, probation, child welfare, courts, etc. to provide a comprehensive approach to the youth’s treatment. Together, teams work to build a solid foundation for continued success.

Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Services

Yolo County

School-based Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Services

Community-based Mental Health Services

Clinical therapy services for children and youth in the homes, schools, and other community settings. Services include assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, group therapy, and care coordination when needed for linkage to additional services.

Wraparound

Placer County

Child and Family Teaming

Provide Child and Family Team (CFT) facilitation for Child Welfare involved youth and families. CFT facilitation include needs assessment, development of an individualized service plan, and close care coordination with mental health providers, extended family, schools, and the county departments involved with the family.

Wraparound

Intensive Outpatient Services

Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS)

Specialty Mental Health

Clinical therapy services for children and youth in the home, school, and other community settings. Services include assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, group therapy, and care coordination when needed for connecting them with additional services.

Nevada County

Wraparound

Early Psychosis Intervention Program

In collaboration with Nevada County Behavioral Health and UC Davis, Victor provides community-based intervention to individuals ages 12-30 who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing their first psychotic event. Victor assists with linkage to specialty mental health care via UC Davis’s EDAPT Clinic and provides knowledgeable locally-based support to individuals to access the care they need in their own community.

School- and Clinic-based Mental Health Services

Clinical services for children and youth in the school setting. Services include assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, group therapy, and care coordination when needed for linkage to additional services.

Rapid Response Team (RRT) and Family Urgent Response Services (FURS)

RRT supports families who come to the attention of Child Welfare Services (CWS) and/or Juvenile Probation by providing 24-hour response and in-person service to families experiencing instability. FURS provides foster youth and former foster youth with a 24-hour a day in-person response to crisis to prevent placement disruptions, the need for 911 or law enforcement involvement, prevents psychiatric hospitalization, and promotes healing as a family and preserves the child’s current living situation. FURS services can continue for up to 30 days to ensure linkage and support to prevent additional crisis.

Yuba/Sutter Counties

Child and Family Teaming Program

Mobile Access Hub (MAH)

A school-based program designed to bridge gaps for youth who are struggling to access county-based services. Services include brief intervention (mental health or rehabilitation) and linkage to ongoing support services in the community.

Butte County

Specialty-Mental-Health-Services

Tehama County

Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Services

A coordinated and comprehensive array of services for TAY clients that allows them to selectively utilize services needed to maximize their individual potential and successfully transition into adulthood. Services address needs in the areas 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.

Juvenile Detention/Program Contract

Youth are referred directly from the county who are detained in Juvenile Hall or if they are on probation. Victor provides one-on-one mental health counseling services to the youth, as well as groups, case coordination and family engagement. Victor also helps with those exiting probation and detention by connecting them to needed services.

Child and Family Team (CFT) Facilitation

Services to children and their families involved in the Child Welfare and Foster Care system. CFT’s are used to identify, develop, and implement the services and supports necessary to meet the needs of the child and family, while keeping the child and family in the driver’s seat. Depending on where the case is within the Child Welfare system, services may include emergency intervention to stabilize the youth in their current home/placement, support for a youth and family that have been reunified, or permanency planning for youth who will remain in care or non-minor dependents (NMDs).

Specialty Mental Health Services

Clinical therapy services for children and youth in the homes, schools, and other community settings. Clinicians are trained in an array of evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of mental health issues including but not limited to substance use/abuse, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Services include assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, group therapy, and care coordination when needed for linkage to additional services.

Shasta County

Specialty Mental Health Services

Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Specialty Mental Health Medi-Cal Services to children under age 21 in Shasta County. EPSDT includes intensive mental health services and care coordination individualized to the specific needs and strengths of children and their family and/or caregivers.

Therapeutic Behavior Services (TBS)

An adjunctive services to provide additional services to children and youth with serious emotional challenges. TBS helps children/youth as well as their parents/caregivers, foster parents, group home staff and school staff learn new ways of reducing and managing challenging/problematic behaviors (i.e., target behaviors) and increase positive behavior that will allow children/youth to be successful in their current environment and reduce and/or eliminate the need for placement into high levels of out-of-home care or psychiatric hospitalization.

CBT in Juvenile Rehabilitation Facility (JRF)

Mental health services provided to youth in the JRF including individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) suicide prevention, general counseling, parent and family therapy, rehabilitation groups, and behavioral intervention groups.

Aggression Replacement Training (ART)

ART is an evidence-based program for adult and juvenile offenders that guides the individual as they skills for self-discipline, self-governing, and respect for self, others, and the community. Services are provided to adult and juvenile offenders on supervision and juveniles housed at the JRF.