Living, Insight, New Knowledge (LINK)
The LINK Team provides services and supports to youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Butte County. This program assists youth with overnight sheltering in safe, supervised housing for youth under 18, and temporary and permanent housing for youth 18-24. The goals of the program are to provide services necessary to keep youth safe and help them work toward permanent housing, education and employment.
Age Range: 12-24
Mobile Foster Care Team
The Mobile Foster Care Team provides screening and assessment for youth detained and placed out of home by the Butte County DESS. Youth who are screen will be provided with age appropriate information about trauma and coping skills. Individuals who have underlying behavioral health issues will receive appropriate treatment services.
Chico Community Counseling Center
500 Cohasset Road Suite 15
Chico, CA 95926
Mobile Transition Age Youth (Mobile TAY) Team
The Mobile Transition Age Youth Team (Mobile TAY) provides services to young adults ages 16-24. The team works with young adults to provide the support and to teach the skills necessary for TAYs to transition into adulthood and to meet goals around self sufficiency. Services provided address 5 key areas:
· Clinical services for mental health improvement and stabilization.
· Independent living skills including legal emancipation, fiscal management, housing acquisition and maintenance, and health-related supports and services
· Education and vocational training services including subject/career exploration, campus visits, training program identification, linking training to jobs.
· Employment services including career and job interest and skills assessment; academic supports, employment readiness; job availability, acquisition, and retention.
· Socialization opportunities including peer group assessment, identification of fun and healthy activities, and development of social supports and friends.
The team recognizes the needs to make services available where youth are located, the program focuses on delivering rapid response and help directly to the individual at: school, home, Juvenile Hall, hospitals, job sites and/or on the street. Collaboration with the schools and other groups facilitate the ability to provide response in these locations.
Age Range: 16-24
Chico Community Counseling Center
500 Cohasset Road Suite 15
Chico, CA 95926
(530)891-2945
6th Street Center
The 6th Street Center, a program of Youth for Change, is open to youth ages 14-24 that are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Services include basic needs (laundry facilities, showers, and afternoon meals), education support, employment development, and family reunification assistance, and referral to community services.
Age Range: 14-25
130 W 6th Street
Chico, CA 95928
(530) 894-8008
Homeless Emergency Runaway Effort
592 Rio Lindo Ave.
Chico, CA 95926
Crisis Line
(800) 371-4373
It is the vision of the H.E.R.E. program to create and maximize options for Butte County families and to have youth live safe, productive, and fulfilling lives. Our mission is to empower families by guiding them to explore healthy choices, utilize available resources, live safely, and transition positively through life.
Services:
HERE offers brief confidential counseling for individual youth to help alleviate the crisis at hand. We also provide brief counseling for families who are experiencing a crisis situation.
In the event that a youth is experiencing a crisis situation (runaway, homeless, parent child conflict, depression) they may contact the HERE Program to speak with a crisis counselor and receive HERE services. HERE also provides 24 hour suicide assessments and interventions.
A non-biased mediator can help to direct conversations and allow each person to express themselves while avoiding further argument. The goal of mediation is to create a compromise and end the confict.
Our 24-hour phone line is free and can be called from any phone. The number is (800) 371-4373. Call any time of any day during a crisis to talk or meet with somebody and receive services.
HERE can help get youth off of the streets by placing them in temporary shelter care while case workers try to reunite the family. If reunification is not an option for the youth, we can help to find a more stable living environment. HERE may also provide homeless and runaway youth with free food cards, clothing, a bus ticket home (even out of county), and other basic needs.