Youth for Change is a contracted vendor providing specialized services for children, youth, and families who have intensive treatment needs. The specialized services provided include Community Based Services (CBS), Full Service Partnership (FSP), Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS), Intensive In-Home Based Services (IHBS), and Wraparound.

Community Based Services Programs

These services are provided, in part, through a contracted vendor, Youth for Change. Community Based Services are an intermediary level of care for local children who meet medical necessity criteria for specialty mental health services, and include psychotherapy, medication management, intensive care coordination, and case management. These are children and youth whose treatment needs cannot be met in a traditional outpatient setting and/or who may require significant coordination of care between child-serving agencies. This model ensures that youth receive services where children require them most (at home, in school, etc.) to best serve the needs of the youth and family in the program.

Full Service Partnership (FSP) 

Qualified children and youth up to age 15 receive these FSP services. Full Service Partnerships are the highest level of outpatient care for local children and youth who meet medical necessity criteria for specialty mental health services, and include psychotherapy, medication management, intensive care coordination, and case management. The program provides 24/7 support and utilizes a model that ensures that a team of mental health professionals and paraprofessionals (including peer mentors and parent partners with lived experience) work cooperatively using an “whatever it takes” approach to ensure that the needs of the children, youth and family are met. Children enrolled in this FSP receive behavioral health services that are tailored and consistent to match each child’s individual needs and goals.
The Youth for Change FSP emphasizes a team approach that includes in-home, school based, community, and family supportive services for children and youth with significant behavioral health needs and/or children and families that are interacting with multiple child-serving systems.

Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS)

The Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) Program is an adjunctive treatment for children who have recently experienced or are at risk of hospitalization and/or placement in a group home setting. TBS is an intensive, individualized, one-to-one behavioral coaching program available to children/youth who are experiencing emotional or behavioral challenge or experiencing a stressful life transition. TBS can help children and parents/caregivers learn skills to increase successful behaviors and learn new ways of reducing challenging behaviors. TBS is not a stand-alone service. It supports ongoing behavioral health services.

Intensive Home-Based Services (IHBS)

The Intensive Home-Based Services Program (IHBS) is an intensive, in-home service designed to reduce behaviors that are placing a youth at risk for being placed into foster care and/or that may disrupt an existing foster care placement. IHBS are individualized, strength-based interventions designed to ameliorate mental health conditions that interfere with a youth’s functioning. These interventions are aimed at helping the youth build skills for successful functioning in the home and community, as well as improving the family’s ability to help the youth successfully function in the home and in the community. Like TBS, IHBS is not stand-alone services and must meet the same criteria. 

Wraparound 

Wraparound Services are only available to youth who reside in Sutter County or who are dependents or wards of Sutter County. To be considered for Wraparound services, a referral must be submitted to the Youth and Family Services program manager by a Child Welfare Social Worker or a Juvenile Probation Officer. Wraparound is an individualized, strengths-based planning process that occurs in a team setting to engage with children, youth, and their families. Wraparound focuses on a strengths-based, needs-driven approach. The intent is to build on individual and family strengths to help families achieve positive goals and improve well-being. Wraparound is also a team-driven process. From the start, a child and family team is formed and works directly with the family as they identify their own needs and strengths. The team develops a service plan that describes specific strategies for meeting the needs identified by the family. The service plan is individualized, with strategies that reflect the child and family's culture and preferences. California Wraparound is intended to allow children to live and grow up in a safe, stable, permanent family environment.