Sunday, May 18, 2025
5/18/2025
Family TREE - Project Summary: WestCare California, Inc.’s (WCCA) Family TREE (Treatment and Recovery Enhancement and Expansion) program will enhance and expand comprehensive treatment, early intervention, and recovery support services for low-income, primarily Latino, adolescents (ages 12-18) with substance use disorders (SUD) and co-occurring mental health disorders (COD) and their families/primary caregivers in Kings County, California. Project Name: Family TREE Population(s) to be served: low-income, primarily Latino, adolescents (ages 12-18) with SUD/COD and their families/primary caregivers Strategies/interventions: WCCA will deliver outpatient treatment, wraparound services, and case managed community-based support services. Project goals and measurable objectives: Goal 1: Increase access to care by providing culturally competent and youth-centered evidenced-based SUD/COD treatment to primarily minority youth (ages 12-18) and their families. Objective 1.1: Provide A-CRA/ACC to 450 unduplicated youth across the 5-year funding period. Objective 1.2: Provide Seeking Safety to 80% of the youth having trauma-related symptoms. Objective 1.3: Refer 85% of youth and their family members for additional services as needed. Objective 1.4: 75% of the youth will complete A-CRA/ACC. Objective 1.5: 80% of youth completing treatment will be alcohol and drug free during the 30 days prior to discharge. Objective 1.6: 80% of youth completing treatment will exhibit decreased depression and anxiety symptoms at discharge. Objective 1.7: 70% of youth completing Seeking Safety will report reduced trauma symptoms at discharge. Goal 2: Enhance the social and behavioral health functioning of primarily minority youth (12-18) and their families. Objective 2.1: 80% of youth successfully completing treatment who did not have stable living arrangements at admission will have stable living arrangements at discharge. Objective 2.2: 80% of youth completing treatment will be in an educational or vocational program, be seeking employment actively, or be employed at discharge. Objective 2.3: 80% of youth completing treatment will not engage in new criminal activity at discharge. Objective 2.4: 80% of youth completing treatment will have improved social connectedness at discharge. Objective 2.5: 80% of youth will utilize ER services less and have fewer hospitalizations for SUD/COD at discharge.
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