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Community Research Foundation Programs
Areta Crowell Wellness Recovery Center
Areta Crowell Wellness Recovery Center is a Bio-Psychosocial Rehabilitation program of Community Research Foundation that provides integrated, coordinated community-based psychosocial rehabilitation services for adults 18 and older who have a serious mental illness, as well as individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance disorders. Its services are based on the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation, with emphasis on attending to the whole person and re-establishing one’s life as a result of the consequences of mental illness, rather than simply attending to the symptoms of the illness. The services focus on recovery, rehabilitation, and community integration, and are individualized to meet the needs of each client. Clients actively participate in setting service plan goals and are encouraged to involve family and significant others in the recovery plan.
Jane Westin Center
Jane Westin Center is a walk-in, urban, center which provides evaluation and treatment that are consistent with psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery principles to adults 18 years of age and older with serious mental illness and/or co-occurring mental health and substance disorders. The objective at the Jane Westin Center is to provide mental health evaluation and treatment that will help stabilize clients who are unable to be treated elsewhere and then link them with another program for on-going medication management services and/or other services and supports.
South Bay Guidance Wellness Recovery Center
South Bay Guidance Wellness Recovery Center services are based on the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation, with emphasis on attending to the whole person and re-establishing one's life as a result of the consequences of mental illness and sometimes co-occurring substance use disorders. The services focus on recovery, rehabilitation, and community integration, and are individualized to meet the needs of each client. Clients actively participate in setting service plan goals and are encouraged to involve family and significant others in the recovery plan. The team at South Bay Guidance Wellness Recovery Center is multi-disciplinary and consists of psychologists, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, nurses, and master's level psychology interns. In addition, the team is bilingual and bicultural, across all disciplines, in order to linguistically and culturally address the needs of the large Latino population in the South region of San Diego.
Maria Sardiñas Wellness Recovery Center
Maria Sardiñas Wellness Recovery Center services are based on the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation, with emphasis on attending to the whole person and re-establishing one's life as a result of the consequences of mental illness and sometimes co-occurring substance use disorders. The services focus on recovery, rehabilitation, and community integration, and are individualized to meet the needs of each client. Clients actively participate in setting service plan goals and are encouraged to involve family and significant others in the recovery plan. In addition to outpatient psychiatric services, the Maria Sardiñas Wellness Recovery Center also has five specialized programs: Full Service Partnership Case Management, targeted services for Transition Aged Youth (aged 18-24), Older Adults (aged 60+), AB109 services for individuals involved with the justice system, and short-term Geriatric Outreach services provided in the community.
Visit Balboa Crisis Center START Programs
The START Programs (Short Term Acute Residential Treatment, also referred to as crisis residential programs) are located throughout San Diego County and offer an alternative to hospitalization for adults who are suffering an acute psychiatric crisis that is not manageable on an outpatient basis. CRF's START programs are the only integrated system of crisis residential programs in the United States that have been recognized by SAMHSA as evidence-based and listed in the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. They are CARF accredited as Mental Health Crisis Stabilization programs, licensed by the Department of Social Services, and certified by the Department of Healthcare Services. In a community-based, home-like environment, the multidisciplinary team of Master's prepared clinicians, nurses, psychiatrists, and peers specialize in the psychosocial rehabilitation of each individual who comes through the door.
Specialty Population Programs
Survivors of Torture
Survivors of Torture, International is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for survivors of politically motivated torture and their families who live in San Diego County. Its mission is to help survivors to recover from their traumas through a holistic program including mental health, psychiatry, social services, and medical case management. Survivors of Torture, International empowers torture survivors to reclaim the strength and vitality that were stolen from them by brutal dictators and governments. The clinic uses a team-based approach utilizing case managers, therapists, physicians and nurses, and culturally sensitive translators.
Generate Hope
Generate Hope is a safe place for survivors of sex trafficking to heal and find restoration in long-term housing and trauma-informed therapy, education, and vocational support. Since recovery from sexual exploitation is a long-term process, Generate Hope provides safety, community, and individualized life skills support to work through the deep trauma and discover a healthy, purpose-filled life.
The San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital (SDCPH)
The San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital (SDCPH) is a publicly funded, free-standing psychiatric hospital. It is a locked facility and a component of the County of San Diego Behavioral Health Services’ continuum of care. The mission of the hospital is to provide psychiatric evaluation and crisis intervention-oriented acute treatment for adult residents of San Diego County. The goal of the hospital is to help patients deal with a mental health crisis, become stabilized, and move ahead to a less restrictive level of care.
Adult and FQHC Programs
San Ysidiro Health
San Ysidro Health Centers (SYHC) is a non-profit organization fully committed to providing the highest quality, most compassionate, easily accessible, and affordable health care services for the entire family. With a vast network of community clinics and program sites located throughout San Diego, San Ysidro Health improves the overall health and the well-being of our impoverished community by offering comprehensive primary care, dental, counseling, and family support services. San Ysidro Health serves over 107,000 patients, of which nearly half are children and adolescents. SHYC strives to eliminate health disparities and become the connection to a permanent medical home for the most vulnerable families.
Scripps Mercy Family Medicine Residency
The Family Medicine Residency Program at Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista trains family medicine physicians to provide comprehensive medical care, with a curriculum that emphasizes community medicine. Scripps partnerships with local community health programs allow residents to focus on medically underserved communities, particularly those along the California and Baja border regions.
Family Health Centers of San Diego
Family Health Centers of San Diego’s (FHCSD) mission is to provide affordable, high-quality health care and support services to all people, with a special commitment to the uninsured, low-income, and medically underserved. Annually, FHCSD provides care to more than 190,000 unique patients—a third of San Diego’s regions low-income patients—through more than 800,000 encounters. FHCSD offers a wide range of health care services throughout the region, including 23 primary care clinics, eight dental clinics, a teen health center, eight behavioral health facilities, an outpatient substance abuse treatment program, vision and physical therapy departments, three mobile medical units, and a pharmacy. The breadth of its clinic locations, services, and programs has grown over the last four decades, making FHCSD the largest community clinic provider of health care to the uninsured in the county and one of the top 10 largest community clinic organizations in the nation.
Child and Adolescent Population Programs
Rady Children's Hospital
Rady Children’s Psychiatry Department provides comprehensive mental health and psychosocial services to children, adolescents, and their families. They offer a full range of outpatient services for conditions including depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorders, behavior problems, psychosis, and eating disorders. Inpatient services are provided for children and teens with psychiatric illness, eating disorders, and medical/behavioral disorders. In the near future, they will be opening up the region’s first pediatric psychiatric emergency department.
San Diego Center for Children
The San Diego Center for Children provides comprehensive services for children struggling with mental, emotional, and/or behavioral disorders and their families. With 8 program sites (anchored by a 12-acre main campus) the Center serves over 1,000 at-risk and underserved individuals every day. The Center has developed the most comprehensive continuum of pediatric mental health and education services in the County providing life-changing support for both youth and their families. Services include integrated care in pediatrics, outpatient and in-school services, wraparound in-home support, intensive clinical services, a therapeutic school, and residential treatment.
San Diego Family Care
The San Diego Family Care operates eight (8) health centers in San Diego County. This includes 4 sites in Linda Vista, the Mid-City Community Clinic (Adults) and the Mid-City Community Clinic (Pediatrics), as well as two (2) school based clinics inside elementary and middle schools. These high quality community health centers deliver 116,337 primary care medical, dental and mental health visits annually to all residents of San Diego County. All health centers have been nationally recognized by the National Council on Quality Assurance.
San Diego Youth Services
San Diego Youth Services (SDYS) is a non-profit organization serving over 19,000 children and their families each year. SDYS assists youth and their families in becoming self-sufficient and specializes in working with homeless youth and youth in crisis. Its Counseling Cove program provides comprehensive mental health services to homeless youth with emotional, behavioral, and learning difficulties wanting to leave street life. It's Surviving Together, Achieving and Reaching for Success (STARS) program utilizes a rapid response team with Child Welfare to provide case management, support groups, and therapy to women and transgender women ages 12- 24 who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic sex trafficking, and men 12- 17 years of age. I CARE is a new program that expands support to youth up to age 21 who are at risk for or have experienced sex trafficking or other commercial sexual exploitation. Additionally, the I CARE program provides a mental health clinic and drop-in center.