Sun Street Centers

Driving under the influence program - this program is licensed by the state of california department of health care services to provide quality education to help the participant understand his/her relationship with alcohol and drugs, and the inherent risk of driving while under the influence. Approximately 2000 clients were served during the 2023-24 fiscal year.

Outpatient recovery services empower men, women, and teens to stop the cycle of addiction and take charge of their lives. Participants are provided group and individual sessions and services with a comprehensive, evidenced-based, individualized program with more than thirty years of research and development by the matrix institute of addictions, an affiliate of the ucla integrated substance abuse programs. Counseling for couples and families are also available. Locations are in salinas, seaside, marina, and king city. Approximately 500 clients were served in the 2023-24 fiscal year.

Prevention services - dedicated to building healthy and safe communities, our three prevention centers provide a variety of services to community members and their families, in order to build awareness and promote action toward resolving community health problems relating to drug and alcohol abuse. Services include information and referral, volunteer community coalition advocacy to prevent alchol-related trauma (parts) , community outreach and education, drunk and drugged driving education, meeting rooms for community groups, safe teen empowerment project (steps) afterschool program, evidenced -based life skills training, and advocacy to change community policies. Centers are located in salinas, seaside, gonzales and king city, california. Approximately 10,000 youth and parents were served in the 2023-24 fiscal year.

Pueblo del mar, a joint partnership between the housing authority of the county of monterey and sun street centers, provides a safe affordable, transitional housing program for homeless women with children, men with children, and families with children. Residents organize themselves in a social model-driven council that assists families in developing a sense of pride and community. In a drug free/alcohol free environment, residents build social networks and support systems designed to foster positive lifestyles. Goals include maintaining longterm sobriety, getting a job, finding permanent housing and improving parenting skills. 97 parents and children served in 2023-24. This program stopped accepting referrals in april 2024 due to the housing authority's loss of federal funding

Sobering center is the first of its kind in monterey county and has successfully served close to 2000 over the past 6 years. This is a safe place for people who are drunk in public or arrested for driving under the influence to be diverted from jail, and sober up in our center, getting referrals from recovery counselors and a ride home. Approximately 250 clients were served in the 2023-24 fiscal year.

Sober living environments are committed to ensuring a safe, clean, structured recovery environment, and dedicated to providing supportive and affordable sober living. Our program is structured to implement everything our residents have acquired in treatment, through the twelve-step recovery process. We provide residents with the best possible opportunity of achieving and maintaining permanent sobriety. Residents agree to a sober living covenant designed to develop character, self-esteem, responsibility, self-reliance, and accountability in order to help in the process of rebuilding a life. Goals include sobriety, cleanliness, safety and cooperation. Houses for men and women, respectively, located in salinas, king city and hollister. Approximately 100 men and women were housed in 2023-24.

Road to success youth pre-diversion program serves youth referred by law enforcement for first-time crimes and from schools due to expulsion. Diversion plans are developed in collaboration with the student, parent and case manager to offering a path to eradicating the criminal offense from their record and get back to school. This 3 month to 6 month program includes life skills training, community volunteering, pro-social activities, and working with a community accountability board. Operating in gonzales, soledad, greenfield, king city, and on the monterey peninsula. In fy 2023-24 we served approximately 200 students. Last year we expanded our program through the count probation dept at juvenile hall.