Service Name: SUPPORT SERVICES - STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES

Organization Name: STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES

Location

Location Name: STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES

  • Accessibility: Fully accessible to individuals using mobility aids.
  • Physical Address: 8912 Volunteer Lane, Sacramento, CA, 95826
  • Mailing Address: 8912 Volunteer Lane, Sacramento, CA, 95826
  • Description: Provides a continuum of care to empower youth and families to overcome challenges together and connects youth in foster care to permanent families. The program offers individualized programs such as: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Advocacy Employs Youth Advocates (individuals with "lived experience"), who serve as peer mentors/advocates for the CSEC population. Destination Family Provides family finding services, child-focused recruitment, ongoing family support, and support for children to prepare them for a family. Family Advocacy Family Partners and Youth Advocates offer their own personal experiences and advocacy skills as a valuable layer of support to the youth and families in all Stanford Sierra Youth & Families programs. Pathways to Permanency Work to reunify the youth with their birth family. At the same time, to identify a family for the youth if reunification is not possible. Wraparound and Prevention Wraparound Helps youth living in institutional care gain the support and guidance to help them transition safely to permanent family or healthy, independent living. School-Based Services Provides therapeutic interventions to students through both in-person and virtual environments. Individual and group services are also provided along with teaching staff on managing difficult behaviors in the classroom setting. Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) Provides community-based short-term support for youth who are at risk of being moved into a higher, more restrictive placement (hospital, residential facility) or need support transitioning to a lower-level placement (family home, foster home, group home). Wonder Mentoring program Matches children with a trained mentor for one-to-one guidance and support for a year.
  • Website: http://www.ssyaf.org
  • Email: info@ssyaf.org
  • Phone(s): (916) 344-0199, (916) 344-0196
  • Hours: Monday through Thursday 8:30 am - 5:30 pm; Friday 8:30 am - 5 pm
  • Eligibility: Youth from birth to age 22 with psychiatric or behavioral challenges, and those transitioning from foster care to adulthood.
  • Requirements: A referral is required.
  • Areas Served:
    • Sacramento United States
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