Turning Point of Central California

Mental health service - Turning Point provides a range of specialty mental health services that include services for children with emotional and behavioral problems who meet medical necessity requirements as well as services for adults with mental illness. Professional staff members provide services for children in clinics, schools, offices and in homes. Eligible adults are assisted in securing appropriate living situations in the community. They are also provided psychiatric care and linkage/referral to available services. Mental health services include (a) diagnostic assessments, (b) case management, (c) counseling, (d) crisis intervention, (e) therapeutic behavioral services, (f) medication management, (g) referrals, and (h) assistance with housing and employment. Children's services are tailored to transition the children to progressively lower levels of care as well as preventing any development of more serious problems. The adult programs seek to decrease incarceration, psychiatric hospitalizations and homelessness, provide linkage to community resources, establish support systems and assist with socialization, educational training and occupational development in a wellness/recovery theoretical model. "evidence based treatment" is the preferred mode of treatment. Services to adults with co-occurring disorders, and transitional age youth are included.

Residential community correctional treatment services - Turning Point programs provide (a) family reunification services, (b) job development, (c) substance abuse treatment and relapse prevention, (d) victim awareness training, (e) stress management, and (f) conflict resolution counseling. Residents are placed by the court systems and corrections departments and receive assistance in changing their thinking, feelings and behaviors toward a positive, law-abiding, and constructive life. Residents are closely monitored and managed to maximize community safety and individual growth. Other services include (a) literacy training, (b) financial management, (c) drug and alcohol monitoring, and (d) activity and behavior accountability monitoring.

Transitional housing programs - Turning Point programs provide housing for people transitioning from being homeless to a stable living environment. Some of these programs service families and the others serve single adults. The programs focus on building the skills and finding the resources needed to obtain and maintain permanent independent housing.

Services for the developmentally disabled - Turning Point residential programs provide short and intermediate term therapeutic milieu for developmentally disabled children who need a safe, stable and secure program to reduce or eliminate problematic issues so a less restrictive environment can be secured. The primary objective for these programs is to modify behavior so that the child can return to a less intensive program in the home community and not be placed in a state developmental center.

Residential drug and alcohol services - Turning Point programs provide licensed substance abuse treatment services for residents. Four of these facilities are specifically for parolees. All of these programs provide group and individual substance abuse treatment and educational services.

Outpatient drug and alcohol services - Turning Point provides individual and group counseling services to teens and adults. Services are provided based on referrals from federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as self-referrals. Services include (a) case management; (b) treatment services; (c) relapse prevention training; (d) ancillary services; and (e) referral to community resources.

Employment services - Turning Point provides vocational and employment related services including job skills assessment and training, career counseling, resume development, interview and application preparation training, supportive services to address barriers, case management, and follow-up services. Eligible participants, age 14 to adult, are generally referred by the courts or other governmental agencies. Some of the programs also provide funded on-the-job training and paid work experience.

Ancillary services - Turning Point has developed other ancillary follow-up and aftercare services which help clients maintain their gains accomplished at other Turning Point programs through counseling and other supportive services. Turning Point provides money management assistance to mentally disabled individuals who have difficulty managing their finances. Other services include (a) jail visitation programs, (b) electronic monitoring, (c) drug use detection, (d) self help meetings, (e) public education, (f) speaker's bureaus, and (g) tenant council development.