The Outpatient Enhanced Program Full-Service Partnership (FSP) provides mental health services for dependent youth by providing intensive care coordination, intensive home-based services, and individual, group, and family therapy.
Eligible children are assigned a clinician and a case manager and receive individual and family therapy in outpatient clinics in Stockton, Lodi, Manteca, and Tracy, as well as in their homes or at school. Referrals come from the Pathways to Wellbeing program.
Family Urgent Response System (FURS) is a coordinated statewide and county-level system designed to provide collaborative and timely state-level phone-based response and county-level in-home, in-person mobile response during situations of instability. San Joaquin County Human Services Agency has contracted with a community-based organization to provide in-person mobile crisis response to foster youth and caregivers throughout the county.
The goal of FURS is to preserve the relationship between the caregiver and the child/youth.
Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) is provided under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit to all children and youth who are under the age of 21, eligible for the full scope of Medi-Cal services and meet medical necessity criteria for SMHS.
TTFC is appropriate for children and youth with more intensive needs, or who are in or at risk of placement in residential or hospital settings, but who could be effectively served in the home and community. A TFC home is a short-term, intensive, highly coordinated, trauma- informed, and individualized intervention, provided by a I: I TFC parent to a child or youth who has complex emotional and behavioral needs. Caregivers receive weekly supervision and guidance from a therapist on how to use interventions.
TFC is a referred service directly from Child Protective Services (CPS).
Short-term Residential Therapeutic Programs (STRTP) are homelike residential facilities that provide an integral program of specialized and intensive care and supervision, services and supports, specialty mental health services, mental health treatment, and short-term (up to six months), 24-hour care and supervision to children. Eligible youth are Medi-Cal eligible, at risk, and have moderate to severe behavioral health needs. Residents receive individual and group therapy. There are two STRTPs in San Joaquin County with two in design.
Participants are referred by their social worker or Probation Officer.
The goal is for youth to stabilize so they can exit a group home environment and enter a home-based setting with permanency.
Pathways to Wellbeing is the process by which all children and youth in San Joaquin County’s Child Welfare System are referred to Behavioral Health Services for assessment by a clinician.
Assessments include screenings for treatment teams to determine the most appropriate service for the youth, based on their level of need. Pathways to Wellbeing only serves minors with a moderate to severe mental health concern.
Program objectives are to help children heal from abuse and neglect through strength-based and family focused services; to support stable and permanent living situations; to provide culturally competent interventions; and to promote child and family empowerment.
CYS provides behavioral health services to children in foster care who reside at the Mary Graham Children’s Shelter. All Medi-Cal beneficiaries receive a voluntary comprehensive mental health assessment and coordination of care through BHS. Services are provided in coordination with San Joaquin County Human Services Agency, the BHS Pathways to Wellbeing team and other contracted Community-Based mental health providers. BHS also provides linkage to support services as needed.
Children are placed in the shelter by law enforcement or a Child Protective Services social worker.