Santa Barbara County Child and Family Mental Health Services

Care Offered

• Mental health treatment
• Dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring serious mental health illness/serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders

Service Setting

• Outpatient treatment

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

Treatment Approaches

• Behavior modification
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Group therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Psychotropic medication
• Trauma therapy

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Who Operates This Facility

• the Local government

Payments and Insurance Accepted

• County or local government funds
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• State welfare or child and family services funds

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Special Programs and Population Groups Supported

• Transitional age young adults
• Persons with serious mental illness

Ancillary Services

• Case management
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Education services
• Family psychoeducation
• Intensive case management
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Suicide prevention services
• Therapeutic foster care
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Mentoring/peer support/consumer-run services

Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/adolescents
• Young adults

Language Services

• Services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Additional Languages Supported

• Spanish