The STAY (Youth Hostel)

2014 NACo Achievement Award Winner

San Bernardino County, Calif., CA

About the Program

Category: Human Services (Best in Category)

Year: 2014

The STAY (Serving Transitional Age Youth) is an innovative program designed to address the needs of San Bernardino County’s diverse Transitional Age Youth (TAY, age 18 to 25) population who are experiencing an acute psychiatric episode or crisis and are in need of a higher level of care than board and care residential, but a lower level of care than psychiatric hospitalization. The STAY is a short term, 14-bed crisis residential treatment center that provides up to a 30 day stay for TAY with or without Medi-cal. The facility is the only center of its kind in the state, funded by Proposition 63. The STAY is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for voluntary admissions. Program participant’s benefit from residential, case management, connections to housing, education, healthcare, community and mental health services designed to meet their specific needs. The STAY was developed in response to stakeholders concerns around the lack of specific crisis stabilization programing for TAY. The STAY fills this need by providing a peer designed/supported, culturally and linguistically appropriate TAY based crisis stabilization program. Valley Star Children and Family Services, Inc. is the contracted agency that provides program services, serving 83 youth to date.

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