Center for Human Services

Behavioral health programs provide mental health and substance abuse counseling Services to community members in need. Individual, family, and group counseling is provided at locations throughout the county. The first step program provides a comprehensive continuum of substance abuse treatment Services for pregnant and parenting women and their preschool age children (ages 0-5). The goal of the program is to assist women in maintaining drug and alcohol free lifestyles and to develop positive parenting skills. Clients learn to identify and implement healthy interpersonal relationships and to provide safe, sober, and nurturing home environments for themselves and their children. 100% of the women participating in the first step program reported that their relationship with their child had improved. Student assistance program (sap) provides short-term education, prevention, and intervention Services to students k-12 by building life, social, and coping skills. Our top five contact reasons in this program relate to anger management, academic, anxiety, family, and relationship issues. During 2022-2023 the sap program served 8,269 students. School staff are surveyed and consistently report that referred students benefit from sap Services.

Shelter Services are provided through two programs: hutton house, a temporary shelter for runaways, homeless, and youth in crisis (ages 13-17), provides Services in a residential setting for 8 youth at a time for a maximum of 90 days. In addition, day Services are available for youth and their families and the crisis line is available 24 hours a day. During fiscal year 2022-2023,48 youth received residential Services at hutton house and an additional 75 youth were served on a non-residential basis. 66% of all youth receiving Services at hutton house reported they had been taught skills to use when conflict happens at home.low barrier youth shelter: a new low barrier emergency shelter (began operation in october 2021) for youth experiencing homelessness (ages 18-24), provides emergency shelter for 24 youth at a time for a maximum of 90 days. During fiscal year 2022-2023, 123 youth were sheltered at the low barrier youth shelter. 8.1% of those exited to transitional housing, and 4% exited to permanent housing. 76% of youth surveyed felt safe at the low barrier youth shelter.pathways, a transitional living & supportive Services program for 15 young adults (ages 18-24), serves homeless youth. In addition to housing, Services include life skills and employment training, case management, mental health and substance abuse counseling, and support in reaching educational goals. During fiscal year 2022-2023, pathways served 37 residential participants and 25% of the young adults living at pathways increased their income.

Family resource centers (frc) are a key prevention strategy for addressing many of the challenges facing families in rural stanislaus communities. Services are conveniently located in newman, patterson, ceres, and oakdale, California. Hundreds of individuals and families access a variety of Services each month at each frc location. Current frc Services include community outreach and engagement activities, strength based family assessments, case management, and mental health counseling, parent education and skill building classes, assistance with translation and application for aid and insurance, transportation to appointments, and linkage to other resources as deemed appropriate. Additionally, individuals and families have access to other public/private Services co-located at the sites. In addition to the Services listed above, our family resource centers provided emergency food/crisis assistance to 4,580 people during 2022/2023.