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Outpatient Services
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Serves individuals ages 60 years and older who are living with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI), experience multiple functional impairments and may also have a co-occurring substance use disorder. Many of the older adults served in this program are homebound due to physical, mental, financial or other impairments. They...
Older Adult Wellness Promotion & Prevention Services
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Older Adult Services provides mobile mental health services and episodic treatment services to community-dwelling older adults (60 and older) that emphasize individual needs, strengths, choices, and involvement in service planning and implementation. We seek to identify those situations which could benefit from services leading to a better quality of life...
About Us
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Behavioral Health Services consists of three divisions which provide a culturally competent and client-centered system of behavioral health services for all eligible county residents in need of treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse and mental health care. The divisions include: Adult Mental Health Services, Children and Youth Mental Health...
The Recovery Education Institute - Mental Health Career Pathways
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REI serves adult participants, eighteen (18) years of age and older and currently receiving services with OCHCA's behavioral health system and their family members. REI provides trainings on basic life skills, career management and academic preparedness. It also offers certificate programs to solidify the personal and academic skills necessary to...
Adult Supported Employment - Employment WORKS
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The Supported Employment (SE) program serves Orange County residents 18 and older who are living with serious mental illness, may have a co-occurring substance use disorder, and require job assistance to obtain competitive or volunteer employment. Participants are referred to the program and must be engaged in behavioral health services...
Human Subjects Review Committee/IRB Roster
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Updated 3/3/2025 Name Scientist/Non-Scientist (S/N) Affiliation with Institution (Y/N) Alternate Richard Chhuon S Y Marya Forster S N Gagandeep Grewal S Y Sandra Okubo* S Y Almaas Shaikh S Y Min Suh N Y Matthew Zahn S Y Regina Chinsio-Kwong S Y x Tiffany Kalaitzidis S Y x Crystal Null...
Early Intervention Services for Older Adults
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The Early Intervention Services for Older Adults (EISOA) program provides behavioral health early intervention services to older adults ages 60 years and older who are experiencing the early onset of a mental health condition and/or who are at greatest risk of developing behavioral health conditions due to isolation or other...
Transportation Program
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The Transportation program serves adults ages 18 and older, who have a serious mental illness or substance use disorder, and who need transportation assistance to and from necessary County behavioral health or primary care appointments or select supportive services (particularly housing-related). Individuals are referred by their BHS treatment provider. (Due...