Overview
Seneca’s crisis stabilization and residential programs offer intensive, individualized therapeutic services for youth who are experiencing an urgent mental health crisis that threatens their safety or the safety of those around them.
Approach
Seneca’s crisis stabilization and residential services provide a home-like, therapeutic environment. In these settings, a multidisciplinary team of nurses, psychiatrists, and mental health providers work together to ensure safety, dignity, and effective healing. Unlike traditional, locked, inpatient psychiatric units, Seneca’s less-restrictive treatment settings offer flexibility and personalization. This lets clinicians tailor services to each youth’s individual needs while also reducing the potentially negative impacts often associated with psychiatric hospitalization.
Seneca’s crisis stabilization units (CSUs) serve children ages 6 to 17, offering up to 24 hours of assessment and stabilization with the goal of preventing more intensive intervention, such as hospitalization or inpatient psychiatric care.
If a young person needs more time in a therapeutic environment, Seneca’s crisis residential programs provide 24/7 treatment for youth to receive individual and family therapy, psychiatric care, case management, and connection to community supports. Seneca co-locates our crisis stabilization and crisis residential programs to create a smooth and seamless transition for youth, with an average length of stay of 7 to 10 days.
Get Started
Seneca’s CSUs can serve Medi-Cal eligible youth ages 6 to 17 in Ventura or Monterey County. Young people served in Seneca’s crisis residential programs are referred from the on-site CSU, or enrollment is coordinated from another treatment setting. For voluntary admission or additional questions, contact Seneca’s CSU facility in your county.