All 4 Youth – a partnership between the Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health and the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools

About the Program

Category: Health (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

All 4 Youth is a school and community-based specialty mental health treatment and prevention and early intervention services program for children and youth, ages 0-22, with a Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). Children and youth with SED are persons who have a mental/behavioral disorder as identified in the DSM-5 which results in behavior inappropriate to the individual’s age according to expected developmental norms and have functional impairment in certain life domains. Please see WIC 5600.3 for further definition. The goal of All 4 Youth is to reduce long-term adverse impact on individuals and their families and untreated mental illness by increasing access to mental health resources at an earlier age. All 4 Youth is an innovative approach to fully integrate behavioral health services into schools, removing traditional barriers to unserved and/or underserved communities by bringing the services onto school campuses, into the home, or into the community. In just 3 years, All 4 Youth has been implemented into all 32 school districts within Fresno County, drastically increasing the Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health’s penetration rate of eligible individuals by five times. All 4 Youth is the epitome of success when a strong and passionate intergovernmental partnership focuses on community needs.