Mariposa Women and Family Center

Calworks program provides behavioral health services are designed to assist participants to overcome mental health and substance abuse issues that interfere with the ability to obtain or maintain a job. Services are integrated and address mental health, alcohol and drug use issues which can interfere with a person's ability to stay employed. Service plans emphasize participants' choices in the selection of services and goals. Between our north and south locations over 500 clients were serviced in over 10,000 counseling sessions in fy 18-19.

Substance abuse treatment program (sud) - since our founding, Mariposa has offered gender-specific substance abuse treatment programs in orange county. Our model addresses the varying stages of substance abuse treatment, from outpatient treatment to aftercare and extended care programs. Each program includes alcohol and drug abuse education classes, relapse prevention support groups, and individual counseling and support. Unique to Mariposa, our adolescent substance abuse module tackles all aspects of substance abuse in teens. The program includes 16 weeks of drug and alcohol abuse education for teens and their parents, weekly parent support groups, weekly adolescent support groups, combined Family and youth support groups, and Family and individual counseling. Between our north and south locations over 100 unduplicated clients were serviced in over 3,000 sessions in fy 18-19.

Community counseling program (ccp) services create transformation for Women and their families, proving that patterns of poverty, substance abuse, domestic violence, and a lack of self-efficacy can be overcome. Ccp accomplishes this by offering a unique combination of clinical therapy supported by a variety of prevention education, life-skills workshops, and other support services. This combination allows Mariposa to provide emotional and behavioral stabilization while simultaneously strengthening a client's skills and knowledge needed to make healthy choices, get and maintain employment, and/or enter and complete a training or educational program - all critical for long-term emotional stability and economic viability for the Women, families and communities of orange county. Ccp serves more than 1,700 clients annually and our services are offered in multiple languages, including spanish, english and farsi.