Children’s Mental Health Services
530-225-5252 or 1-888-385-5201 (24 hours)
Access
The Access team consists of three Mental Health Clinicians, two Community Mental Health Workers, and a Clinical Program Coordinator. This team provides evaluations and assessments to all individuals referred to or seeking mental health services over the phone or by walk-in. During the process, an individual’s level of need is determined and are referred to a service provider either within HHSA or in the community. Service providers include but are not limited to: county mental health outpatient programs, contracted service providers, primary care physicians, wellness centers, and other community behavioral health providers.
Crisis Services
Crisis services are carried out by three Mental Health Clinicians assigned to Access. They work together to coordinate service needs in the outpatient clinic or in the local emergency rooms, with any youth experiencing a mental health crisis or emergency. Youth may need an involuntary mental health hold, have a psychiatric diagnosis requiring an acute psychiatric hospitalization, or be an individual who requires specialized services in order to maintain a lower level of care and stability. Services include discharge planning to coordinate transition of care, emergency services, and 24/7 telephone crisis services.
Medication Support Services
The program consists of one part time on site Psychiatrist, two part-time Tele-Psychiatrists, a Nurse Practitioner, a Registered Nurse, and two Case Managers. Medication support services provide initial psychiatric evaluations, medication monitoring, and consultation for youth age 2 to 21 in order to stabilize and move the youth to higher levels of functioning. Case Managers provide treatment planning, supportive skill building and linkage to other supportive services for youth and their families that will lead to greater stability and improved functioning with the goal of reducing trauma reactions and increasing social interactions.
Triple P (Positive Parenting Program)
There are four community providers contracted with Children’s Services Branch to provide Triple P at no cost to families and children in Shasta County. These providers include Shasta County Office of Education, Northern Valley Catholic Social Services, Family Dynamics, and Wright Education. Triple P is a prevention program that is an evidence-based multilevel parent and family support strategy that aims to prevent severe behaviors, emotional, and developmental problems in children through building increased knowledge, skills and confidence of parents.
Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Age 0-5 Program
The 0-5 services consist of two Mental Health Clinicians and a Clinical Program Coordinator. One Mental Health Clinician works closely with Bridges to Success/SCOE and the other works with children within Child Welfare to reduce emotional and behavioral issues in children age 0 to 5 years old. Cornerstones of the program consist of the Positive Parenting Program also known as Triple P and trauma informed interventions. Interventions address and increase parenting skills in relationship to the child to stabilize and enrich the whole family system, as well as interventions aimed at reducing the effects of trauma in the child.
PEI Early Onset of Serious Mental Illness
Currently Children’s Services Branch has a Mental Health Clinician, a Peer Support Specialist and a Parent Partner to address the mental health needs of Transitional Age Youth (TAY) clients that are 15-24 years old and may be experiencing serious mental illness for the first time (first break), or are experiencing prodromal signs of serious mental illness, or having some significant psychotic symptoms which have not been accessed or treated adequately.
Shasta Triumph and Recovery (STAR)
The STAR program consists of one Mental Health Clinician, as well as a team of other mental health professionals (Peer Support Specialist, Parent Partner and Assistant Social Worker). This program is a Full-Service Partnership (FSP) with a focus on wellness, recovery, and resiliency. It is a “whatever it takes” model that provides access to services. This program serves children with severe emotional disturbance who are homeless or at risk of homeless, incarceration, or have an increased risk of psychiatric hospitalization. They may also have a substance use disorder.
WINGS/Juvenile Drug Court
These are collaborative programs between Children’s Services Branch and Shasta County Probation. The team is made up of a Mental Health Clinician, Probation Offer, Drug & Alcohol Counselor, Skill Builder, and Parent Partner. The team works to wrap the family in order to provide services needed for the child and family to be successful, graduate the program, and exit out of the Juvenile Justice System. These services are by referral only from Probation and the Juvenile Court.
