Transition Age Youth Team
Our Access Team is the first contact to request mental health services, and can be reached at (707) 565-6900.
We serve youth ages 18-25 diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness and their families. Individuals are:
- Aging out of children’s mental health services, and are at risk of homelessness, hospitalization, or incarceration
- Aging out of Child Welfare
- Leaving placement
- Experiencing First Episode Psychosis
Our team uses a “whatever it takes” approach, providing:
- Mental health services
- Intensive case management
- Housing and employment support services
- Independent living skills
Services are provided by:
- Buckelew Programs - Supportive employment and Transition Age Youth housing
- Social Advocates for Youth (SAY) - Transition Age Youth housing
- VOICES - Peer support and mentoring
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Sonoma County - Family support and advocacy
Funded by the Mental Health Services Act
This program receives funding through the voter-approved Mental Health Services Act (Prop. 63). MHSA funding provides a broad continuum of prevention, early intervention and services, and the necessary infrastructure, technology and training elements to effectively support our local mental health services system.
This program is a Full Service Partnership. FSPs are multidisciplinary teams that provide intensive field-based specialty mental health services targeted at specific populations with a service commitment of doing “whatever it takes”.
