Outpatient and Specialty services
KidConnections Network (KCN), a Birth to 5 system of care, provides developmental and behavioral health services to the youngest population in Santa Clara County and their family. With a focus on the caregiver-child relationship as the driver of intervention, a team approach is utilized to support families with children age birth to 5 who have developmental and behavioral health concerns. Always in partnership with caregivers in the child's life, KCN strives to provide supports to build strong and secure relationships for the child to promote overall health and well-being. KCN is a partnership between Behavioral Health Services Department (BHSD) and FIRST 5 Santa Clara County.
KCN employs Therapists, Home Visitors (Family Support Specialists) and Developmental Specialists to provide the following:
- Assessments
- Ongoing therapeutic services
- Parent coaching
- Developmental supports, and
- Other services that help to foster a child's physical and emotional development
KCN Documents
The Outpatient Continuum (OPC) serves children, youth, and young adults with emotional and behavioral issues that are impacting their lives. Services are provided as a range from less intensive to intensive for seamless and timely delivery when there are changes in need. Specific services include:
- Assessment
- Therapeutic services (individual, group, and/or family)
- Case management
- Medication evaluation and supports
- Other services that help foster wellness and recovery
The Ethnic Outpatient Continuum (EOPC) provides services for children, youth and young adults focusing on cultural and linguistic competency. Ethnic specific services are available for those who identify as members of the following cultures: African American, African Heritage, Asian, Cambodian, Latinx, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern, Native American, and/or South Asian. Cultural and language specific services are provided to meet individual needs and include:
- Assessment
- Therapeutic services (individual, group, and/or family)
- Case management
- Medication evaluation and supports
- Other services that help foster wellness and recovery
Integrated Outpatient Services (IntOP) provides services to children, youth and young adults who identify with both mental health and substance use challenges.
Youth Full-Service Partnership Continuum (YFSPC) offers a range of intensive outpatient therapeutic services. Programs include a higher level of outpatient mental health services offering intensive services using a team approach to meet the individual and/or family’s behavioral needs. A team may include, a case manager, a family specialist, a peer partner, and a clinician.
The programs are designed for the unserved and the underserved youth who are vulnerable and at risk for unmanaged or unmet mental health needs. Services are carefully and mindfully coordinated to provide comprehensive support services to the client and/or family.
Services may include:
- Assessment
- Therapeutic services (individual and/or family)
- Case management support
- Medication evaluation and support
- Substance use treatment
- Connections to other needed community-based services
Transitional Age Youth Outpatient and LGBTQ Outpatient Continuum
Transitional Age Youth Outpatient Services Continuum (TAY OPC) and TAY LGBTQ Outpatient Continuum offers a range of outpatient therapeutic services from less intensive to intensive for seamless and timely delivery when there are changes in need.
Services are trauma informed, LGBTQ affirming, and may include:
- Assessment
- Therapeutic services (individual, group, and/or family)
- Case management support
- Medication evaluation and support
- Substance use treatment education and/or connection to substance abuse services
Transitional Age Youth Full-Service Partnership Continuum
Transitional Age Youth Full-Service Partnership Continuum (TAY FSPC) offers a range of intensive outpatient therapeutic services using a team approach to meet the individual and/or family’s behavioral needs. A team may include, a case manager, a family specialist, a peer partner, and a clinician.
The programs are designed for the unserved and the underserved youth who are vulnerable and at risk for unmanaged or unmet mental health needs. Services are carefully and mindfully coordinated to provide comprehensive support services to the client and/or family.
TAY FSPC services may include:
- Assessment
- Therapeutic services (individual and/or family)
- Case management support
- Medication evaluation and support
- Substance use treatment
- Connections to other needed community-based services
Transitional Age Youth Interdisciplinary Services Team
The Transitional Age Youth Interdisciplinary Service Team (TAY IST) offers a wide range of services to work towards and maintain wellness for youth and young adults by providing mental health and substance use care in a clinic setting. Services may include:
- Therapeutic services (individual, group, and/or family)
- Support and resource groups
- Life skill development
- Case management
- Peer support
- Medication evaluation and support
Pathways to Well-Being provides intensive, strength-based, mental health services for children and youth. Services are individualized to the needs of the child and family, honor the child and family voice, and provide Intensive Care Coordination (ICC). Intensive Home-Based Services (IHBS) can also be provided to help youth develop skills to improve their emotional and behavioral health and daily functioning and support the family unit. Therapy and psychiatry services are also available for youth who would benefit.
More information about Pathways to Well-Being. [S1 link]
Raising Early Awareness and Creating Hope (REACH) is a continuum of services that provides early detection, prevention, and intervention services to youth and young adults experiencing early warning signs and symptoms related to the early onset of psychosis.
More information about REACH. [S1 link]
Specialty services
Specialty services are supplemental services offered to children, youth, and young adults who are receiving ongoing behavioral health services from the County of Santa Clara’s service providers and/or contracted service providers.
Placement Supportive Services (PSS) partners with the Department of Family and Children Services to provide placement stabilization services to children, youth, and young adults. This 60-day program utilizes team-based and strength-based approaches, conducts assessment and safety planning, and provides linkage to community resources.
Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) are offered to children, youth, and young adults who are needing support with intense behavioral and emotional issues. Interventions are strength-based, individualized, short term, and culturally sensitive. Trained behavioral coaches teach children, youth, young adults and their family effective coping, anger management and mood regulation skills. TBS behavioral coaches also have expertise working with individuals identified with intellectual disabilities or developmental delays and their families.