Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families

California

Connecting Circles of Care

"Connecting Circles of Care", is a partnership of a family run organization, Native American tribal organization, and the county behavioral health department.   This project provides a complete system of care for children with severe emotional disturbances.  Care is delivered by teams based in family resource centers.

Seven Generations System of Care

The California Rural Health project is a system of care model for delivering mental health services to urban American Indian and Alaska Native Children who have a serious emotional disturbance and their families in Los Angeles County

Andy Hunt, MSW, LICSW
Commander, US Public Health Service
Public Health Advisor
Child Adolescent and Family Branch
Center for Mental Health Services
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1054
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1926
Fax: 240-276-1990
 

Carrie Johnson, Ph. D.
Program Director
United American Indian Involvement
1135 West 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: 213-241-0979
Fax: 213-241-0925
E-mail: drcjohnson@aol.com  

County of Glenn

The Glenn County, California, system-of-care community will enhance and expand our current children's system of care to deliver comprehensive community mental health services for young children (ages 0-4), children and adolescents (ages 5-18), and transition age youth (ages 14-22) with serious emotional disturbances and their families. Youth with a mental health and substance abuse dual diagnosis also will be served. This project will enhance and continue to develop a community service delivery system for these children and youth, improving access to a broad array of local partner-agency services. Program goals include keeping children and youth at home with their families, in school, out of trouble with the legal system, off illegal substances, and healthy. We are committed to measuring the effectiveness of system development, improved outcomes for children and communities, and fiscal effectiveness. Youth and families will be involved in all aspects of the system of care including planning, service delivery, evaluation, quality improvement, social marketing, advocacy, and cultural competency awareness. 

Susan Stromberg
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1929
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: susan.stromberg@samhsa.hhs.gov

Michael Cassetta
Principal Investigator
Director of Health Services
Glenn County Health Services
242 North Villa Avenue
Willows, CA 95988
Phone:  530-934-6582
Fax: 530-934-6592
E-mail: mcassetta@glenncountyhealth.net 

Kathy Montero
Program Director
Children System-of-Care Coordinator
Glenn County Health Services
242 North Villa Avenue
Willows, CA 95988
Phone:  530-856-6459
Fax: 530-865-6483
E-mail: kmontero@glenncountyhealth.net 

Cecilia Hutsell
Deputy Director 
Fiscal Administration 
Glenn County Health Services 
242 North Villa Avenue 
Willows, CA 95988 
Phone: 530-934-6347 
Fax: 530-934-6369 
E-mail: chutsell@glenncountyhealth.net 

Tim Brod, ASW
Coordinator 
Glenn County Health Services 
242 North Villa Avenue 
Willows, CA 95988 
Phone: 530-865-6459 
Fax: 530-865-6483 
E-mail: tbrod@glenncountyhealth.net    

Nancy Callahan, Ph.D. 
Independent Evaluator 
IDEA Consulting 
2108 Almameda Avenue 
Davis, CA 95616 
Phone: 530-758-8815 
Fax: 530-758-2314 
E-mail: nancycal@dcn.davis.ca.us  

Brooke Steyskal, LCSW 
Clinical Supervisor/Coordinator 
Glenn County Health Services 
242 North Villa Avenue 
Willows, CA 95988 
Phone: 530-865-6459 
Fax: 530-865-6483 
E-mail: bsteyskal@glenncountyhealth.net  

Cindy Ross 
Transition Age Youth Coordinator 
Glenn County Health Services 
242 North Villa Avenue 
Willows, CA 95988 
Phone: 530-865-6459 
Fax: 530-865-6483 
E-mail: cross@glenncountyhealth.net  

Dennis Little 
Dual Diagnosis Coordinator 
Glenn County Health Services 
242 North Villa Avenue 
Willows, CA 95988 
Phone: 530-865-1146 
Fax: 530-865-1150 
E-mail: dlittle@glenncountyhealth.net  

Shannon Bunce 
Administrative Assistant 
Glenn County Health Services 
242 North Villa Avenue 
Willows, CA 95988 
Phone: 530-865-6459 
Fax: 530-865-6483 
E-mail: sbunce@glenncountyhealth.net  

Humboldt and Del Norte Counties—Wraparound System of Care 

United Indian Health Services, Inc. serves as the coordinating agency for tribal and county organizations to assure an appropriate, individualized, system of care for American Indian children with serious emotional disturbances. Components of the wraparound model include: 1) developing an early-intervention and family strength-based treatment system; 2) providing continuing cultural competency training for all participants; 3) developing a transportation network to facilitate access to services or treatment; 4) evaluation; 5) early intervention through early identification via Tribal Head Start programs, public schools, probation departments, and the American Indian community; and 6) prevention through expansion of existing cultural community-based programs (Healthy Nations). The area encompassed by this project includes 4,500 square miles and an estimated 15,000 American Indians of whom 10,000 are registered clients within the United Indian Health Services, Inc.

Andy Hunt, MSW, LICSW
Commander, US Public Health Service
Public Health Advisor
Child Adolescent and Family Branch
Center for Mental Health Services
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1054
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1926
Fax: 240-276-1990
 

Jerome Simone
Principal Investigator
Child and Family Services Department
Potawot Health Village
1600 Weeot Way
Arcata, CA 95519
Phone: 707-825-5060
Fax: 707-825-6753
E-mail: jsimone@crihb.his.gov 

Ken Blackshear
Project Director
Director of the Child and Family Services Department
Potawot Health Village
1600 Weeot Way
Arcata, CA 95519
Phone: 707-825-5060
Alt. Phone: 707-825-4120
Fax: 707-825-6753
E-mail: kblackshear@crihb.ihs.gov 

Joy Casey-Ingram
Site Director
Potawot Health Village
1600 Weeot Way
Arcata, CA 95519
Phone: 707-825-5060
Alt. Phone: 707-825-4120
Fax: 707-825-6753
E-mail: jcasey@crihb.ihs.gov 

Tene Kremling
Project Manager
United Indian Health Service, Inc.
1600 Weeot Way
Arcata, CA 95519
Phone: 707-825-5060
Fax: 707-825-6753
E-mail: tkremling@crihb.his.gov 

La Familia Sana/The Healthy Family 

The Monterey County Health Department Behavioral Health Division is enhancing and expanding the existing children’s mental health system of care. We are enhancing case management services to create bridges where there are gaps in our system. We are identifying best practices and implementing them for children 0-5, adolescents in trouble with the law, and transition age youth. We are targeting these expansions for Latino youth and their families. We are significantly increasing the involvement of parents in the entire system of care. We are structuring all these under a governance system that brings key stakeholders to the table, so that the system will be sustained beyond the period of the grant.

Susan Stromberg
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1929
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: susan.stromberg@samhsa.hhs.gov 

Wayne Clark, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Director, Behavioral Health Division
La Familia Sana/The Healthy Family System of Care
Monterey County Health Department
1270 Natividad Road
Room 200
Salinas, CA 93906
Phone: 831-755-4509
Fax:  831-755-4980
E-mail: clarkww@co.monterey.ca.us 

Dana Edgull, LCSW
Project Director
Children’s Services
951-B Blanco Circle
Salinas, CA 93901
Phone: 831-772-8150
Fax: 831-772-8154
E-mail: edgulldr@co.monterey.ca.used 

Jesse Herrera, LCSW
Program Manager Quality Improvement/Cultural Competence
Behavioral Health Administration
1270 Natividad Road
Room 219
Salinas, CA 93906
Phone: 831-755-4727
Fax: 831-424-9808
E-mail: herreraj@co.monterey.ca.us 

Dorothy Lebron, Ph.D.
Evaluator & Primary Contact for National Evaluation Team
P.O. Box 221416
Carmel, CA 93922
Phone: 831-622-0190
Phone 2: 831-622-0153
Fax: 831-622-9850
E-mail: dlebron@earthlink.net 

Integrated Service System for Infants, Preschoolers and Families

The Integrated Service System of Infants, Preschoolers and Families provides comprehensive mental health services to children aged birth to five, and their families.  The children served  are either in the child welfare system or at risk of entry, have a serious emotional or behavioral problem, and live in an underserved area of Los Angeles County.

Lisa Rubenstein
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1927
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: lisa.rubenstein@samhsa.hhs.gov 

William Arroyo, M.D.
Principal Investigator
Child Youth and Family Program Administration
County of Los Angeles
550 South Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90020
Phone: 213-738-6152
Fax: 213-736-5802
E-mail: warroyo@dmh.co.la.ca.us 

Mary M. Emmons
Co Principal Investigator
Chief Executive Officer
Children's Institute International
711 South New Hampshire Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Phone: 213-385-5100
Alt. Phone: 310-783-4677
Fax: 213-383-1820
Alt. Fax: 310-783-4676

Marie Kanne Poulson, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor of Pediatrics
USC Keck School of Medicine
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
4650 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: 323-660-2450

Karen Finello
Project Director
County of Los Angeles
550 South Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90020
Phone: 213-738-6152
Fax: 213-736-5802
E-mail: kfinello@chla.usc.edu 

Sacramento County OASIS Project 

The SAMHSA OASIS project stands for obtaining and sustaining independent success.  The project will serve transition age youth and their families, particularly those from the following underserved communities: Spanish-speaking; Hmong-speaking; Russian-speaking; Vietnamese-speaking; Cantonese-speaking; homeless; and LGBT (lesbian/gay/bi-sexual/transgender).  Youth and families will have a “Family Team Assistant” or FTA whose primary responsibility will be to assist the youth and family in building a family team and in developing a plan that is strength-based and family driven.  FTAs will be located in the community in organizations and places that are not traditional mental health agencies such as community centers, schools, and non-mental health CBOs.

Jill Erickson 
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1926 
Fax: 240-276-1990 
E-mail: jill.erickson@samhsa.hhs.gov
 

Kathleen Henry, LCSW, CPRP
Principal Investigator
Division of Child and Family Mental Health
Sacramento County Health and Human Services Department
7001-A East Parkway, Suite 400
Sacramento, CA 95823
Phone: 916-875-7070
Fax: 916-873-6970
E-mail: HenryK@saccounty.net 

Stacie Hiramoto, M.S.W.
Program Director
Human Services Program Planner
Division of Child and Family Mental Health
Sacramento County Health and Human Services Department
3331 Power Inn Road
Suite 160
Sacramento, CA 95826
Phone: 916-876-5149
Fax: 916-875-0972
E-mail: HiramotoS@saccounty.net 

San Francisco System of Care 

The San Francisco System of Care (SFSOC) will integrate several critical service and infrastructure improvements to improve the functioning and well-being of SFSOC clients; increase cultural competence and youth participation in the system; reduce juvenile justice recidivism; and maintain children in homes or home-like settings whenever possible. The SFSOC will provide services to all children and youth with multi-systemic involvement across all of the major youth-serving systems in the county. It will develop innovative methodologies, funding reinvestment strategies, and an institutional infrastructure that can be adapted by other jurisdictions. Elements of the SFSOC include the incorporation of youth development principles into the system of care model; expansion of intensive care management services to children age 5 and under; piloting Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment models; establishment of a day treatment program for juvenile justice involved youth; a focus on cultural competence that includes the development of targeted services for San Francisco's diverse ethnic communities; expansion of debriefing services in response to community violence; implementation across the system of care of the family group conferencing model, which places the family in a key care planning role; identification, implementation, and evaluation of empirically-based treatment methodologies for children with conduct disorders, mood disorders, and ADHD; implementation of a comprehensive social marketing plan; development of outreach, engagement, and service strategies for youth; an evaluation that will involve consumers in its design, provide real-time feedback for program improvement, The collection and reporting of required outcome measures, as well as those unique to SFSOC, and documenting the process of implementation to allow for future dissemination of the model; and expansion of San Francisco's Child and Family Data Archive, providing integrated access to data for care planning, policy development, and outcome evaluation.

Lisa Rubenstein
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1927
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: lisa.rubenstein@samhsa.hhs.gov 

Sai-Ling Chan-Sew
Principal Investigator
Children Youth & Family Section, CBHS
San Francisco Department of Public Health
1380 Howard Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-255-3439
Fax: 415-255-3567
E-mail: sai-ling.chan-sew@sfdph.org 

Espera Echavarri
Program Director
Children Youth & Family Section, CBHS
San Francisco Department of Public Health
1305 Evans Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94124
Phone: 415-920-7702
Fax: 415-255-3567
E-mail: 

Transforming Children's Mental Health Through Community and Parent Partnerships

This multi-agency System of Care provides services, through a partnership, to Latino, Native American, and transitional-age (18-21) youth.

Susan Stromberg
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1929
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: susan.stromberg@samhsa.hhs.gov

Dr. Richard J. Burton
Principal Investigator
Children's System of Care
1130 Conroy Lane, #500
Roseville, CA 95661
Phone: 530-889-7119
Fax: 530-886-1850
E-mail: rburton@placer.ca.gov 

Cynthia Brundage
Project Director
Children's System of Care
1130 Conroy Lane, #500
Roseville, CA 95661
Phone: 916-784-6425
Fax: 916-784-6426
E-mail: cbrundag@placer.ca.gov 

Diane Shively
Lead Family Contact
Children's System of Care
1130 Conroy Lane, #500
Roseville, CA 95661
Phone: 530-891-2915
Fax: 530-879-3352
E-mail: mclarke@buttecounty.net 

Urban Trails 

The City of Oakland and The Native American Health Center are collaborating to implement a system of care for emotionally disturbed American Indian children and their families. The American Indian Community has developed a strategic plan that links Native American non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, and public agencies in a comprehensive, culturally competent approach to care. 

The system of care consists of several core elements: a Native Youth Commission that serves as the governing body; a Clinical Team that coordinates case management and individualized service plans for Native youth and their families; and a Training Institute that provides cultural competency training for public officials, staff members at mainstream agencies, foster parents, and Native American agency staff.

Andy Hunt, MSW, LICSW
Commander, US Public Health Service
Public Health Advisor
Child Adolescent and Family Branch
Center for Mental Health Services
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1054
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1926
Fax: 240-276-1990
 

Ethan Nebelkopf, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Clinic Director
Urban Trails
Native American Health Center
3124 International Blvd.
Oakland, CA 96601
Phone: 510-535-4440
Fax:  510-437-9574
E-mail: ethann@nativehealth.org 

Sandra Beauchamp, M.S.W.
Project Director
Urban Trails
Native American Health Center
3124 International Blvd.
Oakland, CA 96601
Phone: 510-535-4440
Fax:  510-437-9574
E-mail:  sandrab@nativehealth.org