Stanislaus and two other counties are collaborating in crisis services for foster youth as long-awaited facilities are built at a campus near Turlock.
It should mean that Modesto-area foster youth in a behavioral health crisis are not sent far away to facilities in Sacramento, the Bay Area or even Bakersfield. Young people placed on a psychiatric hold may wait for days in a local hospital emergency department for a bed to open from 75 to 200 miles away.
Stanislaus and Merced counties are partnering with San Joaquin County and the provider Aspiranet in a regional pilot project using the Hope Forward Campus on Youngstown Road. About $33 million in state funding is paying for construction of a children’s crisis stabilization unit, an eight-bed children’s psychiatric health facility, a crisis residential program, wellness center and family visitation unit…