Youth Behavioral Health

       Statewide Multi-Payer Fee Schedule for School-Linked Behavioral Health Services: Children and youth may have their school’s mental health services covered by their insurance providers. 

Elevate Youth California is a prevention program funded by Proposition 64. It serves low-income youth ages 12 to 26 in Tribal, LGBTQIA+, and communities of color across the state. The program provides necessary peer-to-peer support, mentoring, substance use prevention education, and youth civic engagement activities in communities disproportionally affected by the war on drugs. 

California Youth Opioid Response aims to increase access to care through the expansion of Medication Assisted Treatment services and opioid and stimulant use prevention for youth and families.

Song for Charlie: Fentanyl Awareness and Drug Education Program: This online learning hub equips California families with factual, current, actionable information and tools that may help parents keep California’s youth safe from harm and facilitate open conversations about mental health, substances, and the heightened risks associated with self-medication caused by the emergence of synthetic drugs like fentanyl in the street drug supply.

Youth Opioid Education and Awareness and Fentanyl Education and Awareness Campaign aims to prevent substance use and raise awareness of fentanyl contamination among youth and young adults, prevent overdose and overdose death among young adults using a harm reduction lens, and raise awareness among families and communities, empowering them to respond to the overdose epidemic with life-saving solutions and strategies.

Youth Peer Mentor Program trains justice-involved youth to provide recovery support to peers with substance use challenges.

Young People in Recovery launches chapters and life-skills curriculum programs for youth in recovery from opioid use and substance use disorders.