FRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER

Mental health-fred finch provides intensive community-based mental health services for youth in homes, schools, and clinics, and has done so for over two decades. Characterized by accessible, trauma-informed, and intensive support, mental health services are provided to youth at risk of placement disruption, whether from natural, foster family, or group home care. Services reach young people with mental illness, significant trauma or loss, or other emotional distress. Mental health services are also provided in school settings where the focus is on promoting emotional health so that a student can benefit from their educational opportunities.nd supports.

Other program services include, but are not limited to, the following: the comprehensive assessment and stabilization (cass) program which services foster youth who need immediate mental health treatment to help them decrease disruptive behaviors that could result in having to leave the home; the transitions program which provides support through the transition from foster care to adult independence; full-service partnerships which are based on a "whatever it takes" philosophy of care for youth with mental health impairments or who are facing homelessness; school-based services which are designed to help young people with behavioral problems succeed academically while providing individualized treatment during the day; and rising oaks, a 30-unit transitional housing program for young adults who have either emancipated from the foster care system or are participating in extended foster care.