Community Support Services
290 Pioneer Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
tel 831.459.0444
fax 831.459.0665
River Street Shelter- 831.459.6644
733 River Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Transition House- 831.476.4184
3035 Prather Lane, Santa Cruz, CA 95065
http://www.scccc.org/css/index.html
Misson Statement
Inspiring Hope, Promoting Wellness, Strengthening Community
Community Support Services is a place of acceptance, hope, and healing. We serve individuals who are challenged by loss, poverty, and stigma associated with a diagnosis of mental illness. Together we build relationships that promote paths of wellness and increase community involvement.
Community Support Services provides support to over 1,000 individuals with psychiatric disabilities yearly. Services include emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, residential treatment, dual diagnosis treatment, case management, counseling, and peer support.
Description of Services
Community Support Services serves individuals with psychiatric disabilities and, frequently, co-occurring chemical dependency. Our goal is that those served by Community Support Services will increase community participation, expand support networks, reduce hospitalizations, and improve the quality of their life. Services offered include dual diagnosis treatment, mental health counseling, residential treatment, emergency shelter, case management, supported housing, peer support, money management, and support for youth transitioning out of foster care.
River Street Shelter is a 32-bed emergency shelter that provides meals and staff support for homeless individuals, with special counseling services for people with psychiatric disabilities and chemical dependency.
El Dorado Center is a 16-bed, community-based treatment program for individuals who are in crisis and are referred by County Mental Health to avoid inpatient hospitalization. The adjacent Dominican Partial Hospitalization program provides intensive day treatment and medication services. EDC staff provides structured activities, individual counseling, and crisis intervention around the clock as needed.
Paloma House is a 12-bed dual diagnosis residential treatment program for individuals with both psychiatric disabilities and chemical dependence issues. Daily groups and individual counseling assist residents in maintaining sobriety and psychiatric stability and in making a successful transition to community living.
Transition House is a 10-bed residential program for individuals who are in crisis or are preparing to move to a more independent living situation. Services include assistance with achieving and maintaining psychiatric stability, independent living skills, and accessing community resources.
Pioneer House is a dual diagnosis day treatment program for men and women who have both psychiatric disabilities and chemical dependence issues. The program offers daily structure and a focus on psycho-educational groups, process groups and self-help support systems.
The Mental Health Services Coordination team provides mental health services, case management, and crisis intervention services to individuals with a dual diagnosis and/or criminal justice issues. The Coordinators are an intensive team, utilizing a modified Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model with caseloads averaging 1:15, and 24 hour, 7-day availability to individuals on their caseload.
The Money Management Program acts as the representative payee and has financial responsibility for County Mental Health consumers receiving Social Security benefits who have been determined to need assistance in meeting their food, clothing and shelter needs. Money management counselors also work with individuals on developing the budgeting and money management skills necessary to manage their own money.
The Supported Housing Program provides stable, permanent, affordable housing for mental health consumers. We currently house over 115 residents in duplexes, apartments, and 3 to 5-bedroom homes. A Housing Coordinator and peer support counselors assist residents in maintaining housing stability and in connecting to the community.
The Independent Living Program (ILP) assists current and former foster youth aged 15-21 to develop independent living skills and achieve educational/vocational goals to successfully transition to self-sufficiency. ILP Coordinators provide counseling, support, and empowerment to youth in accessing resources and learning new skills.
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