Behavioral Health Program
Help Children & Youth Succeed Socially & Academically
APAFSS has been offering intervention and mental health counseling to children and families for over 10 years.This Behavioral Health Program has been provided in our family resource centers utilizing a formal counseling internship program. Over the years, we have partners with over 10 universities to train the next generation. The mental health counseling services help children and families resolve issues which would impact school performance, individual development, and family cohesiveness.
The most common presenting issues that we have come across in these target populations include:
• trauma from domestic and community violence
• depression
• socialization impairment
• self-harming
• eating disorder, and
• adjustment disorder
These challenges pose threats to children and youth succeeding academically and socially.
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We are sited in Sunnydale, one of the HOPE SF sites. We focus on school-age children, teenagers and their families.
We also provide school-based individual and group therapy at our local SFUSD schools.
In addition we have been providing Behavioral Health services in our family resource centers in Chinatown.
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Frequent family counseling is provided according to the needs of each recipient.
A series of therapeutic groups will also be conducted during the academic year depending on the staffing capacity.
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Individual, family and group therapy sessions are being provided at the agency as well as at participating local school sites.
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Medi-Cal eligible but lack resources and access to mental health services, and those who have private insurance but cannot afford to pay the copayment or deductible.
The clientele served reflects the ethnic diversity of the neighborhoods.
