Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center

195 Harvey West Blvd., Suite A
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
tel 831.469.1700 x104
fax 831.425.1905
http://www.scccc.org/index.html

About SCCCC
The Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center, Inc. (SCCCC), a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, has been serving Santa Cruz County since 1973. Our mission is “building on the strength of people working together to create healthy change in their lives and community. We deliver quality human services guided by the values of diversity, partnership, and the power of workplace democracy.” This year we served over 6,000 Santa Cruz residents with culturally-sensitive, bilingual services. We do this through our four service components:  Child and Family Development Programs, Youth Services, Community Recovery Services, and Community Support Services.

Child and Family Development Programs
provides an array of programs serving 625 low-income children age birth to 5 and their families. Programs include Head Start with both Center-based and Home Visiting options; Early Head Start, serving pregnant women, infants from birth to age 5 and their families; Papás, increasing fathers’ involvement in their family’s lives and communities with fun activities, practical groups, meetings, and social events as well as providing useful information; and Families Together, a collaboration of agencies and services that work together with families to help strengthen families before a crisis occurs. The County Child Welfare Agency and other local organizations partner with a community-based team of professional service providers including social workers, child development specialists, public health nurses, and family counselors to keep children safe and families strong.

Youth Services
offers a comprehensive range of counseling and prevention services to over 1,500 adolescents and families throughout the county. The program emphasizes good clean fun, family reunification, personal integrity, and responsibility. Services include Crisis Counseling; Substance Abuse Treatment; Clean and Sober Classrooms; Delinquency Prevention; and Community Outreach. Recent accomplishments include reducing recidivism for 65% of clients and improving school performance for 85% of clients.

Community Recovery Services
provides a broad scope of counseling, intervention, and prevention services for over 2,500 chemically-dependent individuals in outpatient and residential treatment settings in Santa Cruz and Watsonville. Services are targeted at individuals that might otherwise be underserved including adolescent substance abusers, people living in poverty, Latinos, women, and people involved with the criminal justice system. Staff are committed to assisting individuals and their families in working toward life-long recovery from alcohol and other drug dependency.

Community Support Services
provides services for adults with psychiatric disabilities who are diagnosed with schizophrenia and bi-polar illness. Many have a history of hospitalizations or a long history of psychiatric disability. CSS provides an array of support services including housing for over 200 individuals ranging from 30 people in emergency shelters, 40 in transitional living environments, and 125 in permanent affordable housing. CSS also provides a bilingual residential program for adults who are both chemically dependent and affected by serious psychiatric disability; provides case management, rehabilitation, and crisis intervention services; and offers peer support to assist consumers to take more active roles in the decisions that affect their lives. More than 85% of clients do not require re-hospitalization for their disability.