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Community Mental Health Centers , Group Homes , Human Services , Mental Health , Mental Health Treatment , Residential Mental Health Treatment

Short Term Residential Program Youth Homes operates four houses that are comfortable homes in ordinary neighborhood settings that represent safety and normality. Besides providing a positive environment, our homes support youth with individual and family therapy by a licensed therapist or registered intern. Therapeutic Behavior Program (TBS) TBS is a community-based program offered by Youth Homes to help reduce challenging behaviors that place a youth at risk of hospitalization or placement within a residential treatment program. TBS also serves youth transitioning from a residential placement into a family home environment ? where the extra support helps ensure a positive and successful experience. Family Pathways Program Foster Youth experience many changes and upheavals, both before and during the process that leads to placement. For these young people and their families, the Family Pathways Program offers and provides access to a range of intensive services that support foster children up to the age of 21. Enrichment Programs The logistical and emotional upheaval that occurs as part of a child's placement into foster care creates fear and uncertainty. Our enrichment programs complement our residential programs' safety and stability to create joy, wonder, creative exploration, and normality. Enrichment programming pairs experienced behavioral health staff with skilled subject experts in photography, gardening, horse therapy, and other activities. Emphasis is on emotional expression and managing emotions in new ways. Transition Age Youth (TAY) Full-Service Partnership Under-resourced transition-aged youth who transition into independent living risk poverty, homelessness, unemployment, substance abuse, and incarceration. Youth Homes provides critical services that focus on supporting mental health and other supports to aid TAY youth through the transition period. Aftercare/ Stepping Stones Workforce Development Transition-aged youth also have the opportunity to participate in our workforce development program, Stepping Stones. This program offers intensive employment support including, resume writing, job applications, interview preparedness, communication skills, conflict resolution, and soft skills training necessary to retain employment.

foster youth, transition age youth, and under-resourced children and families

Contra Costa County