Huckleberry Youth Program's mental health and substance misuse services support youth, young adults, and their families as they strive to reduce or eliminate substance use and abuse in their lives. The ultimate goal of the program is to help move youth toward a healthy, balanced life with positive coping strategies, goals and plans for their future, and supportive relationships. Program components include: Outreach and prevention education for youth and young adults who may be at risk, screening and assessment, brief intervention, and counseling to address the co-occurring issues of substance misuse and mental health.

Full service partnership: Referrals are accepted from any outside provider/agency and are accepted year round and based on availability and need.

Drop-in center: No referral needed, all youth ages 16-25 welcome.

TAY Space is a community center for youth ages 16-25 (transitional age youth, or TAY) who struggle with mental, behavioral, and/or emotional disorders including bipolar, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. The transition from childhood into adulthood presents many challenges that are only exacerbated for young people with mental health diagnoses. Many TAY Space clients also navigate poverty, homelessness, and histories of foster care, incarceration, hospitalization, abandonment, and/or abuse. TAY Space is specifically designed to support this age group in managing their mental health; connecting to resources for housing, education, and employment; and building on their strengths to forge a selfsufficient future. The goal of TAY Space is to help vulnerable, transitional age youth gain the foothold they need to thrive beyond their diagnoses and histories.

For our full service partnership clients, (FSP), a multi-disciplinary team provides assessment, individualized treatment plans and links to needed supports and services, as well as coordinated individual therapy and psychiatric services. TAY Space also conducts support groups for parents of Spanish speaking clients to help them access the support they need to, in turn, support their children.

TAY Space also functions as a drop-in center for our FSP clients as well as any other youth in need of a safe place and a community of other transitional age youth. On a drop-in basis, TAY Space provides job coaching; substance use services; workshops on stress reduction and mindfulness, money management, and independent living skills; as well as critical social opportunities such as games, hikes, movies, sports, and cultural events.

MCHWC supports patients in their recovery from opiate addiction through an integrated, patient-centered approach, including substance abuse counseling and Medication-Assisted Treatment for recovery (MAT) for patients 18+ years of age.

The program comprises 10-week sessions (fall and spring) for students who have been referred by school administration, law enforcement or parents because of truancy, failing grades, seriously challenging behavior, gang activity, or drug and alcohol use. The program includes:

The benchmarks for successful outcomes include improved grades, school attendance, and behavior, as well as healthy relationships among peers and adults in the program. When school behavior, grades, and attendance improve, youth earn the privilege to participate in daylong excursions to the beach, theme park, ballgame or trail hike, as well as multi-day trips like whitewater rafting, snowboarding, or wilderness camping.

Rise Up To Change provides substance abuse treatment, coaching and monitoring for teens and young adults.

Co-founders Amy Arnett and Lucille Heaney have worked in substance abuse treatment for over 15 years and observed a gap in the area of support for teens and young adults outside of a residential setting. Almost all people who suffer from long-term addiction started in their teens. Amy and Lucille applied their combined knowledge to adapt the key success factors from leading recovery programs and adapted them for the needs and lifestyles of teens and young adults. Rise Up To Change provides individualized sober support, coaching and monitoring while a teen remains in their established home and school settings. Rise Up To Change’s goal is to help as many teens as possible.

Note: This is a private practice. Limited sliding scale services available by mentioning Wellify Teen.