Program areas at Lifeline Community Services
Youth Development - Lifeline partners with law enforcement, schools, cities, and other community organizations to reduce truancy/juvenile delinquency and prevent youth from joining local gangs. Lifeline works with youth picked up for minor offenses and misdemeanours and their families, and provides counselling, mentoring, parent education and connects them with services that best meet their needs. Intensive gang prevention and intervention services are provided in the cities ofVista and Oceanside.
Housing and Self-Sufficiency - A group of programs to help individuals and families in north coastal San Diego county with emergency assistance, financial education, EITC and taxes, housing,and to develop educational and career goals. Participants may be referred to a variety of resources to help them achieve their goals. Housing, development of independent living skills,and mental health services are provided to transitional age youth who have aged out of the foster care system.
Behavioural Health - Students age 17 and under in seven north San Diego County school districts who meet medical necessity requirements according to title 9 of the California code of regulations are eligible to receive mental health outpatient services. Youth must be MediCal eligible or designated as AB 2726 on their individualized educational plan (IEP), indicating that their emotional needs exceed the scope of a school counsellor or psychologist. Program services are provided primarily on school campuses, in the client's home or at a Lifeline clinic, and include individual, group and family therapy; rehabilitation services; medication support; case management brokerage; and crisis intervention as needed. Youth and families are connected with medical, social, rehabilitative, or other community services and supports.