Program areas at BYA
The Counseling Center, with its Individual and Group Counseling services for high-risk youth and the Reach Our Children (ROC) Medi-Cal Mental Health program, provides comprehensive "wrap-around" mental health services for children and youth. The center provides services for over 125 children, youth, and their families. The services are designed to provide developmentally appropriate emotional and behavioral support. The Counseling Center is funded primarily by Sutter Health, the Alameda County Probation Department, the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services Agency, Sierra Health Foundation, the City of Berkeley and Contra Costa County Health Services.
Career Development Center provides academic support, work readiness training, job placement, and on-the-job training opportunities for unemployed and underemployed youth and young adults ages 14-24. The center works with 175 participants to provide them with basic skills, leadership development, and employment opportunities. The center is funded primarily by Alameda County Workforce Development Board, Alameda County Probation Department, and the City of Berkeley Prop64.
The Health HUB offer health services and health education for over 500 individuals annually and provides youth internship programs for youth ages 14-24. Some participants struggle with poverty and related chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes. The programs support youth who are at-risk of academic failure, are chronically absent from school, engaging in high-risk behaviors, are in poor physical and mental health, and whose parents and/or guardians are in need of support in setting appropriate boundaries and rules so that their children can succeed academically and are able to become physically, socially, and emotionally healthy. The programs are funded primarily by the Alameda County Center for Healthy Schools and Communities, Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services Agency, East Bay Community Foundation, Sierra Health Foundation, Sutter Health, and individual donors.