SERVICES

Together, Coastal and its Collaborators have developed the following goals and objectives:

Goals

1. Reduce the number of violent acts committed by youth.
2. Decrease domestic violence.
3. Reduce the number of abused children.
4. Reduce the consumption of drugs and alcohol and tobacco by youth.
5. Reduce the number of adults using drugs and alcohol.
6. Develop good character and responsible citizenship in youth.
7. Increase the number of healthy families in order to preserve families.
8. Work with families to develop their assets as well as enhance their family skills.
9. Provide trained therapists with language and cultural diversity to successfully serve a variety of communities.
10. Collaborate with community services to increase continuity of care.
11. Increase "life skills in families" in order to enhance families' abilities to function independently.
12. Increase the number of and provide supportive services to adoptive and foster families

Objectives

1. Train staff of Collaborators to assess the needs of at-risk clients for mental health referral and treatment by the mental health professionals employed by Coastal.
2. Provide individual and family therapy to the clients of the Collaborators.
3. Run group therapy for children age six through fourteen that includes anger management and conflict resolution, building positive attitudes, respect for diversity, and decision making through focus on consequences.
4. Provide positive discipline classes.
5. Provide drug and alcohol prevention programs.

Coastal is continuously adding new organizations to a waiting list of various schools and agencies that are requesting services. Coastal would like to take its programs and their benefits to these locations, that include schools, after school care organizations, transitional housing, resource centers, a center for new immigrants, facilities that serve the hearing and vision impaired, and a school setting for students who speak English as a second language. Community agencies are recognizing an increasing need for mental health services among the families they serve. There is extreme concern about potential for violence in children. These organizations recognize the importance of providing a parity of mental health to physical health--a union that has recently been recognized by the State of California through its parity laws.

Meetings with collaborators and the community are regularly held to ensure program success and the appropriate integration of Coastal's services with the existing services of the various collaborating agencies. Coastal's programs are developed to provide specific prevention and intervention for the clients of its Collaborators.

The majority of Coastal clients are families with children under the age of 18. Often, they are single parent families. A high percentage of Coastal's clients are minorities, and fall within the HUD categories of low income level.

It is Coastal's goal to meet the multi-cultural needs of the community, as well as to provide mental health services in non-traditional settings in order to increase the number of families that are able to access these services. The role of Coastal's staff is to provide education as well as intervention in a wide variety of programs. To provide maximum efficiency in relating to the diverse people it serves, Coastal seeks to make its programs culturally diverse, and to provide therapists who are bilingual and bicultural. Therapists currently employed are able to specially connect with Hispanic-American, African-American, Indian, Polish, Malaysian, Indochinese, deaf and hearing-impaired, and Christian and Jewish populations. Coastal is also in the process of forming a collaboration with St. Anselm's Cross-Cultural Community Center, which provides services to immigrants from a variety of cultural backgrounds who are new to the community.

Coastal was specifically created to train therapists to work with children and their families in the areas of domestic violence, violence prevention, and chemical dependency prevention and intervention. Within this framework, Coastal trains therapists in the areas of child and adolescent development, crisis intervention, the treatment and prevention of domestic violence, parenting, and the prevention and intervention of chemical dependency. A large number of therapists receive only minimal education and training to prepare them to successfully practice in chemical dependency and domestic violence.

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