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Community Research Foundation: Douglas Young Youth and Family Services

(858) 300-8282

Douglas Young Youth and Family Services (DYYFS) is a community-based outpatient mental health program providing a full range of services to seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) children, youth and their families in the Central and North Central regions of San Diego County. DYYFS utilizes the family systems and wraparound approach in providing comprehensive, strength-based and culturally and linguistically competent mental health services. Services are client and family-centered and focus on addressing the needs of the client and family while respecting and working within their cultural beliefs, supports, and norms.

Services:

Individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, school-based services, home-based services, case management, rehabilitation, crisis intervention, psychiatric services including evaluation, medication management services, integrated mental health and substance use treatment

Payment Options:

Medi-Cal, Healthy Families Insurance, Sliding scale

Eligibility:

We provide clinic, school, and community-based services for children and adolescents up to the age of 21, if still in high school, who meet Severe Emotional Disturbance criteria, who have Medi-Cal or are Medi-Cal eligible, uninsured (with co-pay on a sliding scale based on family monthly gross income), or have Healthy Families insurance.

Types of Needs:

Outpatient Services for Mental Health

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We do not endorse any specific organization listed nor are we responsible for ensuring the quality of the services listed. Users should always select services at their own discretion. Additionally, this information is subject to change as funding for programs can shift over time, though we do our very best to keep the resource center as up-to-date as possible.

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