Treatment with Increased Support (local)

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Front St. Inc.
​Life Skill Support Services 

831-421-1130
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Life Skills Support Services is a curated service designed for individuals who want to enhance a variety of independent living skills.

Work with an intimate team of experienced support staff from an organization specializing in behavioral health services for over 30 years.

The LSSS team's mission is to work collaboratively with individuals to identify and achieve both short and long term life skills goals.  The frequency of one on one support varies per person - a support service designed by you, for you.
Janus
http://www.janussc.org/
In addition to a variety of treatment plans, Janus offer weekly Q&A sessions for support and information.  Please see their website for times and topics.  Janus treats a variety of substance dependencies and addictions, including: alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, barbiturates, codeine, heroin and other opiates, Vicodin and Oxycontin. With more than 30 years experience, they see clients achieve real and often transformative results every day. 

Telos (an Encompass Program)

http://www.encompasscs.org/community-support-services/residential-treatment
Telos is a 10-bed crisis residential program which serves as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization for individuals in crisis. The program provides a healing environment where residents receive the treatment, support and caring they need to stabilize and move out of their crisis state. Staff provide process groups, individual counseling, and assistance with independent living skills and connecting to the community. Treatment approaches include Motivational Interviewing and utilizing the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) materials. A County psychiatrist is available for medication monitoring and management.

The average length of stay is 10 days.  The maximum stay is 30 days.  People can step down from Telos to other programs or back to their homes.

El Dorado Center (an Encompass Program)

http://www.encompasscs.org/community-support-services/residential-treatment
El Dorado Center (EDC) is a 16-bed, community-based treatment program for individuals who are and in need of an intensive structured residential program. Most residents are stepping down directly from the Behavioral Health Unit or long-term locked care into EDC as an unlocked, more home-like environment, as they continue the healing process in preparation for transitioning back to community living. EDC staff provide individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, structured activities, community outings, and assistance with independent living skills and connecting to the community. A Registered Nurse is on staff and a County psychiatrist is available for medication monitoring and management.

To be eligible for this program, clients must be part of the Santa Cruz Mental Health System of Care.  70% of referrals are stepping down from a locked placement but you can also work with your case manager to be referred.

Coastal Turning Point

http://www.coastalturningpoint.com * 831-234-2010

The Mental Health Intensive Outpatient Program and Partial Hospitalization Program (IOP, PHP) consists of specialized group therapy sessions led by clinical therapists. Our goal is to improve participant’s well-being by assisting in building healthy relationships, satisfying daily activity, and improved ability to positively manage their emotional state.

The IOP and PHP programs primarily serve people with mood and anxiety disorders such as major depression, bipolar disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder. The program also accepts participants with other disorders such as schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who are already stabilized on medication.  

Programs for Teens and Adults.  Accepts Medi-Cal and most insurances.

ASPIRE (for teens and young adults)

https://www.elcaminohospital.org/services/mental-health/specialty-programs/aspire
The eight-week Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Program is designed for young adults between 18 and 25 years old. The program meets four days a week and offers intensive outpatient care. Participants learn healthy living strategies and develop academic and career skills, as well as academic skills. The comprehensive treatment team includes a psychiatrist, clinical psychologist and/or marriage and family therapist, registered nurse, and an occupational therapist. The program is available at the Los Gatos campus.

2nd Story (must be a County Client)

2nd Story is a six-bed house which serves as a respite and a voluntary opportunity for individuals to learn to use relationships to move out of old roles and patterns. They offer a maximum stay of 6 days in a home environment, and provides guests with opportunities to identify and plan for changes they feel will benefit them once they have returned home. All former guests are offered ongoing telephone support, and are welcome to visit when they need encouragement from their peers and Second Story staff.

Program participants also have opportunities to enroll in Intentional Peer Support training and learn to be of assistance to others.Staffed by “peers,” (people with lived experience of mood swings, consuming fears, voices, visions), the household provides an opportunity to experience what change feels like, and to learn new responses through relationships with each other. 

Second Story is not a substitute for psychiatric hospitalization. Those who are drawn to the program develop, with staff, ahead of time, a plan for dealing with feelings and behaviors that in the past have led to inpatient stays.
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​For more information, call Second Story at (831) 466-0967
http://www.encompasscs.org/community-support-services/2nd-story